Hello everyone, this is Anthony Montalbano with internetriot.com, and today the site I have for you is Yahoo Pipes which is at pipes.yahoo.com. I don't want to get too in-depth with this because this is an extremely powerful tool and something that you can do a lot with. So I am just going to show you a couple of things you can do.
But basically what pipes allows you to do is, you can manipulate and aggregate, like all kinds of content on the web and then output it in like an RSS feed, that's like one of those popular things that you can do with pipes, but you can also integrate it with like yahoomaps and stuff like that. You can really some cool functionality or content that's already on the web and just basically pipe it into something else. It's basically a mashup tool.
So what I am going to do is show you how to create a pipe. We'll take four or five RSS feeds we'll aggregate into one, remove duplicate content and then we will republish it as one feed, so that way if you want a specific topic of blogs and stuff like that of RSS feed instead of having all of them is just reading them separate, you can put it into one and have one RSS feed that displays all of them.
So that's kind of what I am going to show how to do real quick, because that's a pretty simple pipe that we can set up and you can get the gist of what a Yahoo Pipe exactly is. So here we are at Yahoo Pipes or pipes.yahoo.com. I've already logged into my Yahoo account and we are going to click on Create a Pipe up here at the top. So here we are at the main screen on how to create a pipe.
The first thing we need to do, is we have to fetch a feed. So you'll see over here there are all this different operators and these functions that you can do when you create pipes and this thing under here, says Sources, and then this where your content comes from, where does your content source come from. We are going to use RSS feeds. So we will do Fetch Feed by just dragging it here and now all we have to do is just paste the URL, the RSS URL right here. So I'll just do a couple.
Alright, so here we are, I have three different RSS feeds that I've found on the web from multiple sites, I just want to have it aggregated into just one RSS feed. You can see here, you just click the plus(+) sign and you can add more and just keep adding as many as you want. But I am happy, I have the three that I want, and now the next thing we need to do is just check to see if maybe if you have some of that similar sources, we want to make sure that it has unique content, so we don't have a duplicate post to be shown here.
So what we are going to do is we can remove duplicate posts. So by clicking on Operators right here you will see there are a whole bunch of more options here and it says Unique, so we are just going to click and drag this and then this little blue circle we can drag this and it'll light up when you connect. So you can see this little orange light up. We are going to connect this, so we are going to say after you take all of these, we want to remove all the unique ones right here, then you are going to say what do you want it sort it by, let's just go by the Title, so that if it has the same exact title that the feed title, we'll just remove those.
So we have that there and then finally the last thing I want to do here is let's sort it by the date that it was published, so that you are actually get this content in chronological order and it's not like, show one feed and then all of a sudden, all the feeds below. So this will actually mix all of the feed items together into just one feed sorted chronologically as they came in and it remove all the unique item. So again over here under Operators, you are going to see this thing called Sort, we can click and drag, drag this over here. I am just going to connect it, like this, and then from a drop down we can choose the item Publication Date, which is Pub Date here, and then we are just going to sort in descending order, if you want the newest ones first. And then finally we are just going to connect the output and complete our pipes, so you can really quickly follow here how this pipe flows. And then lastly if you click on Pipe Output, it's down here will show you, a preview of what is being outputted in, as you can see it's just +22 more. But you can get an idea of all of the posts from these RSS feeds here, removing the duplicates and then sorting it by the publication date, all putting under one feed.
Finally let's just save it, we will call it, Test Feed and I'll click Save and it will be brought right to your feeds home page. Let's click on Run Pipe, and here is the pipe we just created. All of it populates here, it says More Options, Get as RSS and there you go. Take this URL that you have right here and this is your new RSS feed aggregating those three sites together as one RSS feed.
That's a quick example of Yahoo Pipes. I think you should definitely check these out. There are so many more things you can do at Yahoo Pipes, but that's just a quick example to get you started what you can do with them, let's see what we can do from here. That's all I have for you. This is Anthony Montalbano with internetriot.com and I'll see you again soon.
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