Posts Tagged ‘yahoo pipes’
Posted on August 5, 2009 - by Kelly Verge
Top 8 Yahoo Pipes for RSS Readers or Autoblogging
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For those who use RSS feeds to streamline their daily consumption of web information, Yahoo Pipes can be a great tool. Using pipes, you can combine, extract, sort, filter, chop, dice, and puree your favorite feeds.
The problem with Yahoo Pipes is that there is a learning curve. Thankfully, any pipe that has been created can be used by anyone else, and Yahoo has thoughtfully included a search function.
Below is a list of the top 8 Pipes we’ve found (so far):
- Aggregated News Alerts – Enter a search term and this pipe will blend searches from Bloglines, Findory, Google Blog Search, Google News, IceRocket, MSFT Live News, Technorati, and Yahoo! News.
- Daily Feeds Mashup - A large smashup of such sites as: Lifehacker, Duggmirror (forecast), Digg, Slashdot, Kottke, Boing Boing, Reddit, Engadget, Del.icio.us, Stumble Buzz and more sorted by date. It also appends the originating site’s name to the title and corrects for duplicates.
- Hot Deals Search - Finds deals from all major deal sites in US… Fetches deals simultaneously by running parallel threads… Sorts deals based on publication date of the deal (latest first).
- Top Tech Gadgets - Fetches only the hottest gadget news from around the web.
- Video Game Video-Reviews - From IGN, Gamespot, Gamepro, GameTrailers, 1UP, G4′s X-Play and The Escapist’s Zero Punctuation.
- Super Digg Feed v2.0 - This pipes makes your boring old Digg rss feed into a SUPER Digg rss feed. It adds category information, submitter information (with a link to the users page), Digg count, number of comments (with link to the comment page), and a link to the direct page, bypassing Digg. It also comes with a relevant Flickr picture (click to go to the flickr page).
- eBay Partner Price Search - This Pipe was designed eBay’s new affiliate partner program for the US. It will allow you to add your search terms and enter your Campaign Id Number, Custom Id , Minimum amount and Maximum amounts.
- Full Text RSS Builder - This pipe fetches the specified RSS feed, reads the web pages indicated in the links of the RSS feed items, extracts the contents from the web pages between the specified tags, and write back the extracted contents into the description of the RSS feed items. Use this pipe to build your own full-text RSS.
Of course, not only can the RSS output from these pipes be used via an RSS reader, they could also be used as content – either in an RSS widget or even using something like FeedWordPress to provide content for an autoblog.
Let me know if you use any cool pipes, and I’ll take a look at them, too.
Posted on December 6, 2008 - by Kelly Verge
RSS Directory Submission – Easy, Semi-Automated, and Free
Yesterday I posted a comprehensive list of RSS directories to which you can submit feeds from your sites for both backlinks and traffic.
However, the list is huge.
I can only speak for myself, but although I’d like to be able to say that I would submit every new site to that entire list, I know that over time there would be a dropoff. Before long, I’d be lucky if I remembered to add my feed to the first five on the list .
I prefer an automated solution for this type of repetitive task.
I have a couple of software tools that are designed to help automate this – one of which only handles RSS directory submissions. Neither has anywhere near as many directories as are on the list. (The second tool, SENuke, also does many other things very well, so I’m still happy with it.)
I’ve ironed out a mostly-automated system over the past few days that will make it super simple to add your RSS feed to all of the sites on the list with just a couple of easy steps each time you create a feed-enabled site. Follow along:
- Copy the link for one of your feeds. For WordPress blogs, http://yoursite.com/feed/ will work.
- Go to http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/.
- Either create an account or log in to your account if you already have one.
- Once inside your pipes account, click on the “Create a pipe” button.
- Drag the “Fetch Feed” block into the workspace. This will also create the “Pipe Output” block.
- Enter your feed URL’s into the feeds block. If you want to add additional feeds, just click on the small “+” next to “URL.”
- Click and drag the control point from the feed block to the output block. This will create the “pipe” for your data. (Yahoo pipes is designed to be able to do some pretty complex stuff, but we’re just mixing feeds)
- Click on “Save” and name your pipe something memorable. Your new pipe will be your friend, so treat it kindly.
- On the next page, click on “More Options” to get to the URL for the pipe’s RSS feed.
- Right-click on “Copy Link Location” to copy the feed’s URL into your clipboard.
- Paste the RSS URL from your brand new pipe into every single directory on the list from yesterday’s post. This step is tedious, but the great news is that you only have to do it once.
Whenever you create a new site with a feed, just head back to your saved pipe and add the additional feed(s) to the pipe’s input. You’ve already added the resulting combined feed to the RSS directories, so you’re just adding content to the existing feed.
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