[Herts] LUG Planet with Yahoo Pipes

Paul Dixon lordelph at gmail.com
Tue Mar 20 09:05:19 GMT 2007


Nice! I've trying to think of something to try out pipes with...

On 3/20/07, Steve Clark <steve at bagofspoons.net> wrote:
> I had a play last night at building a combined feed for those member
> sites that have feeds. You can see it here:
>
> http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/person.info?eyuid=m2wqERogvGZAGNzdV8U-
>
> You have to be able to log into Yahoo to edit the pipe, but then you can
> create your own copy and modify it.
>
> Basically it takes a set of feeds and merges them. I was playing with a
> filter to try and keep it relevant, but that's not working quite right.
> It does not pick up those items with 'linux' in the body. The second
> problem was that the items were sorted by source instead of by date, I
> tried applying a sort by 'pubdate', but that has problems too. It seems
> that my feed does not include the date, but Bloglines and Google Reader
> seem to manage to read it.
>
> I'm not that up on how RSS works and haven't read all the available info
> on Pipes, so I'm probably missing something. There's not much official
> documentation yet. Perhaps someone else can have a play.
>
> --
> Steve
>
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