Comments on: BirdFood: Smarter RSS Feed for Twitter with Yahoo! Pipes http://scotchi.net/2008/12/birdfood-smarter-rss-feed-for-twitter-with-yahoo-pipes/ discount digital sophistry Thu, 12 Aug 2010 10:18:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Scott Wheeler http://scotchi.net/2008/12/birdfood-smarter-rss-feed-for-twitter-with-yahoo-pipes/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Scott Wheeler Mon, 29 Dec 2008 21:31:18 +0000 http://scotchi.net/?p=6#comment-3 Well, this was my first time to play with it, so the first thing that stuck out for me was that it's relatively hard to mix and match string processing and element substitution. If you look at the pipe I created, it took me a bit to figure out how I could substitute the item that I'd extracted with the page load into the original feed. I ended up having to use a regexp and put in a placeholder and then do a replace later. The other thing might be some concept of state -- not sure if it has that now. I'd like to clean up some feeds that I get that are randomly broken once in a while and repeat the same contents. If I could filter out the repeated elements, that'd be dandy. Other than that I'm not really sure -- I've not used it enough to really get my head into thinking what's possible with it. This was kind of a first attempt where it seemed like a good match. Well, this was my first time to play with it, so the first thing that stuck out for me was that it’s relatively hard to mix and match string processing and element substitution. If you look at the pipe I created, it took me a bit to figure out how I could substitute the item that I’d extracted with the page load into the original feed. I ended up having to use a regexp and put in a placeholder and then do a replace later.

The other thing might be some concept of state — not sure if it has that now. I’d like to clean up some feeds that I get that are randomly broken once in a while and repeat the same contents. If I could filter out the repeated elements, that’d be dandy.

Other than that I’m not really sure — I’ve not used it enough to really get my head into thinking what’s possible with it. This was kind of a first attempt where it seemed like a good match.

]]> By: Rand http://scotchi.net/2008/12/birdfood-smarter-rss-feed-for-twitter-with-yahoo-pipes/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Rand Mon, 29 Dec 2008 21:14:22 +0000 http://scotchi.net/?p=6#comment-2 Interesting approach. I know this is a bit tangential, but if you were going to remake Pipes, what would your requirements be? Interesting approach.

I know this is a bit tangential, but if you were going to remake Pipes, what would your requirements be?

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