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Yahoo! Pipes was a web service which allows user to aggregate, filter, and combine web data sources such as RSS feeds and web pages into an output feed. It closed on 30 September 2015.

According to Yahoo!, the service will be closed on August 31, 2015.

Pipe definitions may be downloaded by calling http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=PIPE_ID&_out=json where PIPE_ID is the pipe's unique identifier.

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Is there a decent alternative to Yahoo Pipes?

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…
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Alternatives to Yahoo Pipes

I've used Yahoo Pipes for some prototyping, but I'm unwilling reluctant to use it in full production as we'll have no control over it uptime etc. Is there an (ideally open source) alternative that I can run on my own server? Or any application that…
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Designing a Yahoo Pipes inspired interface

I really like the interface for Yahoo Pipes (http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/) and would like to create a similar interface for a different problem. Are there any libraries that would allow me to create an interface with the same basic look and feel?…
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.NET alternatives to Yahoo Pipes

Similar to this question, except .NET alternatives instead. Excerpt rom http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/: About Pipes Pipes is a powerful composition tool to aggregate, manipulate, and mashup content from around the web. Like Unix pipes, simple…
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Is there a way to get YQL to return HTML?

I am trying to use YQL to extract a portion of HTML from a series of web pages. The pages themselves have slightly different structure (so a Yahoo Pipes "Fetch Page" with its "Cut content" feature does not work well) but the fragment I am…
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Extract a single String from an array of items

A similar question was asked a few years ago, but the accepted answer is vague at best and confusing at worst. I'm attempting to pass a number that I've retrieved via Regex from a fetched page as the source of a filter. Here's the link to my pipe:…
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Javascript GUI like Yahoo Pipes

I want to develop a GUI like Yahoo Pipes. Can anyone suggest some library or framework?
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Get a string out of an array\object in yahoo pipes?

I have a pipe which is attempting to extract a youtube id from a youtube channel feed. I have: Fetch Feed -> Sub Element (item.link) -> Truncate (After 1) -> Regex (blah) -> Output My problem is the output is: 0 content ABGmhMBBGgw I can't seem…
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Scrape XML files into RSS feed as input for IFTTT

I've got a set of XML files with article content (title, subtitle, content). I've got a Yahoo Pipe that finds the article XML for a specific date and turns it into an RSS feed. This feed is read by IFTTT to publish the article for today on my…
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YQL Losing HTML Element Attributes?

YQL Console Link Query: select * from html where url='http://www.cbs.com/shows/big_brother/video/' and xpath='//div[@id="cbs-video-metadata-wrapper"]/div[@class="cbs-video-share"]/a' Returns:
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Regex to add padding zeroes

I am working on this yahoo pipe Regex and I found a bug I'm unable to wrap my mind around it. I have a URL, from which I extract digits, cat them and make a img html tag and embed it. The issue is that, the URL is presented in a non padded way, but…
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How to merge, create tags and put an ascending order the feeds of more RSS Feed links like on Yahoo Pipes?

I need to take the feeds of more RSS Feed urls that I have to aggregate and show the news in descending order. Some links don't have an xml tag for so I need to create one: I have to know where feeds come from so that I can categorize…
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Using a HTTPS Resource in Yahoo Pipes?

Is possible to use a HTTPS: resource in a URLBuilder in Yahoo Pipes? I have used a HTTP: easily, but when I change it to HTTPS: I get an error.
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How to configure the update interval for Yahoo! Pipes?

I am creating some RSS using Yahoo! Pipes, but the update interval is too long. How can i change it? If it is not possible to change, how long it is exactly?
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Yahoo pipes - any way to combine items?

I'm working on a pipe and am having trouble with combining two lists of items. List 1: [0] letter - a [1] letter - b [2] letter - c List 2: [1] word - apple [2] word - banana [3] word - cake I'd like something which emits the following: List…
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