What is Pipes?
Pipes is a free online service that lets you remix popular feed types and create data mashups using a visual editor. You can use Pipes to run your own web projects, or publish and share your own web services without ever having to write a line of code.
Building a Pipe
You make a Pipe by dragging pre-configured modules onto a canvas and wiring them together in the Pipes Editor.
Each Pipe consists of two or more modules, each of which performs a single, specific task. For example, the Fetch module will retrieve a feed URL, while the Sort module will re-order a feed based on criteria you provide (you can find a complete list of available modules in the documentation.)
Each module has one or more terminals, represented by small circles in the interface. You can wire modules together by clicking on one module's output terminal and another module's input terminal. Now the output from the first module will serve as input to the second module.
In addition to data feeds, Pipes also lets you add user input fields into your Pipe. These show up at runtime as form fields that users of your Pipe can fill in.
Philosophy Behind the Project
There is a rapidly-growing body of well-structured data available online in the form of XML feeds. These feeds range from simple lists of blog entries and news stories to more structured, machine-generated data sources like the Yahoo! Maps Traffic RSS feed. Because of the dearth of tools for manipulating these data sources in meaningful ways, their use has so far largely been limited to feed readers.
What Can Pipes Do Today?
Pipes' initial set of modules lets you assemble personalized information sources out of existing Web services and data feeds. Pipes outputs standard RSS 2.0, so you can subscribe to and read your pipes in your favorite aggregator. You can also create pipes that accept user input and run them on our servers as a kind of miniature Web application.
http://pipes.yahoo.com/
http://pipes.yahoo.com/docs/overview
http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/02/pipes_and_filte.html
http://www.dashes.com/anil/2007/02/08/yahoo_pipes
http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/008513.html
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/07/yahoo-launches-pipes
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