About Pipe Feeds

Pipe feeds is a directory of pipes created by me using Yahoo Pipes. After learning to use Yahoo pipes, I couldn't resist creating pipes for my various needs like viewing the cartoons from different magazines and reading the funny quotes from the Cricket world. I've been creating pipes for my personal needs but suddenly I thought it would be nice to share them with others. Yahoo provides a platform to publish your cartoons, but I needed my pipes to be shared in a much better way. Finally I created this website to list and publicize my pipes. Feed output from these pipes are burnt using Feedburner to enable Email subscription. Each pipe listed here has a set of buttons that help you to subscribe, create widgets for your personalized home page and to embed the pipe in blogs and websites.

What are these options used for?

Pipe	Run the pipe and get the results View the pipe source Clone the pipe for you.
Embed	Get Embed code to paste the Yahoo pipe's badge on a blog or website.
HTML	View the HTML output of the pipe
Feed	Subscribe to the RSS feed in a reader(Google Reader, Bloglines to name a few)
Get Email	Subscribe to the RSS feed by Email. Updates, if any, will be mailed to you on daily basis. Email service is powered by Feedburner
Home Page	Contents of this pipe are archived in a blogger site periodically. Such blogs are called auto publishing blogs. Read more about creating an auto publishing blog from a feed

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What is an Yahoo Pipe?

Yahoo Pipes is a powerful composition tool to aggregate, manipulate, and mashup content from around the web. Pipes can pull data from web pages, structured XML data and other feeds. Pipes 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 create feeds of your needs without ever having to write a line of code.

Yahoo Pipes has a set of modules that operate on the input feed. There are modules to filter, merge, split and apply Regex to feed items. There are even modules to accept user inputs needed for the pipe. It is possible to insert a pipe as a module in another pipe. Check out the complete list of available modules.

How can I benefit from it?

Let us assume that you are a big fan of cartoons published on a magazine's website. You used to visit the website every day to view the cartoons published there. You could save much of this time, if there exists a feed for the cartoons alone. But the publisher doesn't provide such a feed.

Yahoo Pipes comes handy here. You create a pipe that gets the cartoons from the source website and puts them in a feed. You subscribe to this feed in a reader (Google Reader, for example) and view the cartoons right within the reader along with your other subscriptions without going through the pain of visiting the magazine website every time. Doesn't sound like checking mails in your Inbox?

What are the different ways of consuming an Yahoo Pipe?

Once a pipe output is available as a feed, subscribers access them using readers or by an email service(FeedBurner for example). You can create widgets out of the Yahoo pipe for your iGoogle, My Yahoo, My Space pages. An Yahoo Pipe can also be embedded as a badge on a blog or a website.

Different output formats supported by Yahoo Pipes are list, image and map. The image output will result in a slideshow while the map output renders the items on a map.