Yahoo Pipes

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Post by tosh » Mon, Nov 25, 2019, 7:34 PM UTC

Yahoo Pipes
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Re: Yahoo Pipes

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Post by netfl0 » Mon, Nov 25, 2019, 8:09 PM UTC

Oh boy do I remember yahoo pipes. I used it heavily for some time. I always suspected their servers were under massive load running all their jobs so sometimes things were slow.

Pipes made you think the future of the web was going to be technical and brilliant.

Re: Yahoo Pipes

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Post by WA9ACE » Mon, Nov 25, 2019, 8:16 PM UTC

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

Re: Yahoo Pipes

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Post by harrisreynolds » Mon, Nov 25, 2019, 8:18 PM UTC

WA9ACE wrote: post #3

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

I think Zapier and IFTTT fill this gap today.

Re: Yahoo Pipes

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Post by imartin2k » Mon, Nov 25, 2019, 8:34 PM UTC

I remember I used Pipes to create a new single RSS feed containing dozens of separate, rarely updated RSS feeds. For some reason I preferred seeing that one feed subscribed in my — wait for it — Google Reader, than a long list of feeds that rarely got updated. Well. I managed to survive even after Pipes disappeared.

Re: Yahoo Pipes

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Post by wiremine » Mon, Nov 25, 2019, 8:41 PM UTC

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

Re: Yahoo Pipes

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Post by Lammy » Mon, Nov 25, 2019, 8:41 PM UTC

imartin2k wrote: post #5

I remember I used Pipes to create a new single RSS feed containing dozens of separate, rarely updated RSS feeds. For some reason I preferred seeing that one feed subscribed in my — wait for it — Google Reader, than a long list of feeds that rarely got updated. Well. I managed to survive even after Pipes disappeared.

I also remember using it to create RSS feeds for sites that lacked them.

Re: Yahoo Pipes

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Post by donatj » Mon, Nov 25, 2019, 8:41 PM UTC

Pipes was great. I miss it constantly. I used it largely to filter RSS feeds - for instance where I was only interested in posts by certain authors or posts from certain categories of a website.

It was very easy to build these sorts of filters with their visual ui.

Re: Yahoo Pipes

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Post by Mizza » Mon, Nov 25, 2019, 8:44 PM UTC

Pipes was _awesome_. I built many personal services with it - (and even a few low traffic production services!)

Really tragic they killed it, that's when I knew the Mayer era of Yahoo would be nothing more than a hatchet job.

I wish they made it F/OSS as part of the shutdown. Nothing has filled the void.

Re: Yahoo Pipes

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Post by itomato » Mon, Nov 25, 2019, 8:44 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

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