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Pipes is being very buggy lately and has stopped saving new pipes these days. Google Mashup Editor and Microsoft Popfly are both discontinued. Are there are any currently running web apps(or atleast libraries that run on appengine) that do something similar ?

Brian Tompsett - 汤莱恩
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Sri Kadimisetty
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(This question has been asked several times...n For example: Yahoo Pipes clone script? Alternatives to Yahoo Pipes )

Pipe2py is a compiler script that will generate a Python equivalent of a Yahoo Pipe given the URL of the pipe:

https://github.com/ggaughan/pipe2py/

(Note that not all Pipes blocks have yet been implemented.)

A "hosted" version of Pipe2Py is also available on Google App Engine: http://pipes-engine.appspot.com/

You might also find YQL [ http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console/ ] and Scraperwiki [ http://scraperwiki.com/ ] useful

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psychemedia
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    Sure it has but in the future relative to the day I posted this question. Do check the dates. Thanks for the answer, no irony :) – Sri Kadimisetty Nov 29 '12 at 13:28
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Dapper seems pretty good, not as flexible but it's easier to parse data.

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Alix Axel
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    dapper also seems to be owned/operated by yahoo - not sure how this would be a suitable alternative – messedup Apr 17 '11 at 13:15
  • @messedup: Not sure why the downvote, Dapper was acquired by Yahoo! on 05 Oct 2010 (http://www.dapper.net/news/?p=1208), a couple of months after I wrote this. – Alix Axel Apr 17 '11 at 14:01
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    Fair enough - i only downvoted because it seemed like there were better answers available. – messedup Apr 18 '11 at 00:12
  • @messedup: I also agree, I was unaware of those new OSS. – Alix Axel Apr 18 '11 at 05:26
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try YQL, the Yahoo! Query Language.

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Check out http://superfeedr.com/ It's not exactly like pipes as it doesn't cache any data, but you can easily define work flows where the data from feeds is pushed to you.

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I used Yahoo Pipes to be able to requets RSS feeds from other websites using AJAX.

Now that Pipes is not working, I have used cors-anywhere to develop my own cors-proxy. It would take you 10-15 minutes to get your own version ready. You can find my implementation here

Once you have it ready in a GitHub repository you can deploye the repo from Github to Azure in just 5 minutes following this tutorial.

Then you will be able to request a feed via ajax, for example:

http://stackoverflow.com/feeds/user/606821

Can be requested using:

http://my-cors-proxy.azurewebsites.net/stackoverflow.com/feeds/user/606821

Note: You just need to replace the azure's website URL with your own one:

http://my-cors-proxy.azurewebsites.net/

The URL above can only be invoked from remojansen.com because it was configured that way using the cors-anywhere originWhitelist setting:

originWhitelist: (process.env.PORT ? ['http://www.remojansen.com'] : []),

I hope my answer will help some people with my problem.

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The unstopable 'upgrade' to verion II of YP is causing more than a few problems, hopefully it will settle down soon. My site has already ceased functioning as a result.

Am in the process of recreating my pipes using PYTHON on the Google Apps Engine, it's not as friendly as pipes but should be more stable. Very similiar to raw PHP but with sublte quirks and definitely not for beginers. I'm reasonably good with php and finding it steep learning curve, but there is nothing else credible out there.

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