ND Football Related RSS feeds via Yahoo Pipes

by domer.mq , Sunday, February 22, 2009, 14:28 (6249 days ago)

For Pat and whoever else may be interested, here are a couple of example "pipes" from Yahoo's Pipes service that I use.

I think you'll need to log in to Pipes first to see the source for these pipes, but if you log in and then follow the links, you should be able to see what I do. It's really pretty straight-forward. It took my a bit to get my head around not writing any script/code to do this stuff. It may be easier if you don't have any coding experience.

The first one pulls in all Google and Yahoo alerts on "ND Football" and then tries to filter out duplicate headlines (really helps combat the 400 copies of AP wires for every story), sorts those, and then filters out any results from a particular site that I just didn't want to include in links on my own site.

http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.edit?_id=DHmYZsYE3BGsbF7AJphxuA

The next one pulled in various RSS feeds from a bunch of ND Opponent blogs for 2008, and then I used a RegEx component to make sure each pulled feed included the name of the blog in the headline (in brackets, after the headline) so that in a reader I could figure out who had written the post, or on my site's sidebar the readers could see where the link lead to. This one uses several of the "union" components just to sort of help untangle things a bit and ultimately feed everything into one sort component to sort by date.

http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.edit?_id=0cdfdd0f086a2d6a9c82be4b294e54da

I've got a lot of "advanced" pipes I've used in the past, but those all have a few quirks with them and still don't really act as I'd like, but close enough that it helps cut down on some of the informational clutter in my RSS reader.

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