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Post by reubano » Sun, Apr 12, 2020, 1:16 PM UTC

diggan wrote: post #25

donatj wrote: post #7

I was telling a friend recently about how there was this "golden age" when you could access all sorts of free APIs, and how I still long for this time. I remember the public Netflix API, Twitter APIs and Flickr API with particular fondness. My personal site was a big mashup of all of my data. I also abused the hell out of Yahoo Pipes - I would run RSS feeds through like 15 different languages with Babelfish before ba…

> I also abused the hell out of Yahoo Pipes - I would run RSS feeds through like 15 different languages with Babelfish before back to English, just for kicks. Yahoo Pipes was one of the greatest services I used, just when I started getting into programming. Maybe it was so cool because I was naive, but I really miss being able to pipe services together in the same way. Anyone know of any similar attempts that is open…

Check out my project, riko. https://github.com/nerevu/riko Open source, but no hosted plan.

Re: This Video Has X Views

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Post by onli » Wed, Apr 15, 2020, 2:10 PM UTC

diggan wrote: post #138

r-w wrote: post #86

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I don’t think those requirements will be met until people like us who miss it put our money where our mouth is ;)

I think people like us (at least me) miss a lot of things, some more important than others, and we have to carefully choose what we spend out time on :)

I'm about to open source it now. Which means I just did, but haven't announced it yet. https://github.com/pipes-digital/pipes now contains a very new version you could run locally.

r-w is right though: More users paying for pipes would allow me to invest more time into it and have more requirements covered.

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Post by onli » Wed, Apr 15, 2020, 2:17 PM UTC

egfx wrote: post #89

ivanfon wrote: post #43

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From a quick search, it looks like someone is recreating Yahoo Pipes here: https://www.pipes.digital/ Unfortunately, it looks like it's not open-source, their Github repo is only for bug reports: https://github.com/pipes-digital/pipes

Yeah as I mentioned https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21641615 A Yahoo pipes! clone really needs some open source love. Too bad the maintainer is more interested in making it a one man SaaS. The video is interesting because I thought he was talking specifically to me about the http://2fb.me product. But anyway I think this is a reminder that even though API’s have gotten more restrictive that more creative ways of…

> A Yahoo pipes! clone really needs some open source love. Too bad the maintainer is more interested in making it a one man SaaS.

I guess that's fair.

I want(ed) to run Pipes as an SaaS because I think that model would be highly advantageous to me, and that would be very advantageous for Pipes. But that with the predecessors history as background this approach is a critical concern is something I do understand. I will now try to have my cake and eat it too: https://github.com/pipes-digital/pipes contains a new FOSS version that is meant to exist in parallel with pipes.digital, as long as that model works out. So worst case now is this FOSS approach fails, and then only the SaaS would die, not the software.

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Post by kuu » Wed, Apr 22, 2020, 9:11 AM UTC

diggan wrote: post #163

kuu wrote: post #157

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You could automate something in their m.instagram.com site with selenium :)

Guessing they are redirecting to instagram.com based on user-agent or something, because I end up on the lame read-only desktop website. Does m.instagram.com allow you to post content and everything the mobile app allows you to do?

Sorry for the late answer. I can post content from m.instagram.com if I change the user-agent as you mention, but this is quite easy to do with the browser default dev-tools, just press F12 and change the device to any mobile. I think the only thing it does not work is the stories.