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Re: Yahoo Pipes

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Post by mikeleeorg » Mon, Nov 25, 2019, 8:45 PM UTC

wiremine wrote: post #6

Pipes where awesome! The product seemed to have influenced a few products (off the top of my head): 1. IBM's Node Red [1] 2. AWS IoT Things Graph [2] I'm sure there are others? [1] https://nodered.org/ [2] https://aws.amazon.com/iot-things-graph/?nc=sn&loc=3&dn=6

Though not exactly the same thing, I like to think of these as spiritual successors:

https://ifttt.com/

https://zapier.com/

Re: Yahoo Pipes

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Post by sajithdilshan » Mon, Nov 25, 2019, 8:46 PM UTC

It was really a good product. I've used it to normalize XML from couple of sources to create a news aggregator

Re: Yahoo Pipes

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Post by geraldbauer » Mon, Nov 25, 2019, 8:48 PM UTC

WA9ACE wrote: post #3

Pipes was such a good product and sorely missed. Is there anything equivalent to it today?

You can use modern scripting languages such as Python, Ruby and friends. They will never go out of fashion if you want to put together a pipeline (also known as workflow or script :-).

Re: Yahoo Pipes

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Post by elsurudo » Mon, Nov 25, 2019, 8:50 PM UTC

To scratch a similar itch today, I self-host (well, on Heroku) an instance of Huginn (https://github.com/huginn/huginn). It's a bit of a different model, but works nicely. It's also pretty straightforward to extend by adding your own agents (especially if you know ruby/rails, which it is written in).

Re: Yahoo Pipes

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Post by fosk » Mon, Nov 25, 2019, 8:51 PM UTC

And I also remember its competitor, Microsoft Popfly [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Popfly

Re: Yahoo Pipes

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Post by psadri » Mon, Nov 25, 2019, 8:52 PM UTC

Thanks for posting and the nice comments. Glad to have built something that people found useful...

Re: Yahoo Pipes

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Post by dmarinoc » Mon, Nov 25, 2019, 8:54 PM UTC

mikeleeorg wrote: post #11

wiremine wrote: post #6

Pipes where awesome! The product seemed to have influenced a few products (off the top of my head): 1. IBM's Node Red [1] 2. AWS IoT Things Graph [2] I'm sure there are others? [1] https://nodered.org/ [2] https://aws.amazon.com/iot-things-graph/?nc=sn&loc=3&dn=6

Though not exactly the same thing, I like to think of these as spiritual successors: https://ifttt.com/ https://zapier.com/

Apart from those, I’d suggest to take a look to Integromat. Their “http module” (a UI for a curl-like service) is really handy when you want to interact with a 3rd party service that hasn’t been integrated yet.

Re: Yahoo Pipes

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Post by egfx » Mon, Nov 25, 2019, 8:56 PM UTC

Ah pipes. Thanks for the memories of a product that both came and went before it’s time. And technologically an amazing frontend web app. There is an attempt to remake pipes https://pipes.digital

Re: Yahoo Pipes

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Post by eddyg » Mon, Nov 25, 2019, 9:01 PM UTC

Pipes was great!

Microsoft has Flow [0] now, but not sure how it compares.

[0] https://flow.microsoft.com/

Re: Yahoo Pipes

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Post by naikrovek » Mon, Nov 25, 2019, 9:01 PM UTC

geraldbauer wrote: post #13

WA9ACE wrote: post #3

Pipes was such a good product and sorely missed. Is there anything equivalent to it today?

You can use modern scripting languages such as Python, Ruby and friends. They will never go out of fashion if you want to put together a pipeline (also known as workflow or script :-).

I really don't think Python qualifies as an equivalent replacement for Pipes.