September 10, 2008

RSS Feed for Paralympic Games 2008 medals by country

A pipe which updates you with medals won by your country in the ongoing Paralympic Games 2008. To create a feed for your country's medal hunt just replace XXX with the country code in the URL, http://pipes.yahoo.com/yemkay/paralympic2008medalfeed?_render=rss&country=XXX For example, feed for China is http://pipes.yahoo.com/yemkay/paralympic2008medalfeed?_render=rss&country=CHN and that of USA is http://pipes.yahoo.com/yemkay/paralympic2008medalfeed?_render=rss&country=USA

Entire list of country codes is available here.

I could easily create the pipe for paralympic medals by cloning the pipe made for Olympics 2008. Thanks to the makers of these official websites for designing similar websites for both the events. Only a portion of the URL had to be changed.

Here is a widget created from the pipe showing the list of medals won by USA,



In any of these export options, change the value of the query parameter "country" to get export options for different countries.

September 5, 2008

Slideshow of images from search results of Web, Picasa and Flickr

This pipe unions outputs from the pipes - Flickr, Picasa and Google search

Create a widget showing slide show of these images by clicking on the embed option, customizing to enter your own search query and then copy the embed code to paste on a blog or website.

This slide show is shown from the image results for "Space Shuttle" from Web, Picasa and Flickr in a randomized order.

Slideshow widget for Flickr images

This pipe fetches images from Flickr for a given search query and creates a slide show from resulting images.

Click on the embed export option, customize the widget by setting your own search query, copy the embed code and paste it on your blog or website to show the slide show of Flickr images resulting from your query. Number of images is customizable by the parameter N (default value is 100).

Slideshow widget for Picasa images

This pipe fetches images from Picasa for a given search query and creates a slide show from resulting images.

Click on the embed export option, customize the widget by setting your own search query, copy the embed code and paste it on your blog or website to show the slide show of images resulting from your search in Picasa. You can also change the dimensions of the widget.



Widget showing slideshow from Google Image search results

Create a slide show widget from Google Image search results using this pipe. The pipe uses REST API to fetch the images and thus lists only the first 28 images from the search results.

Copy the embed code and paste it on your blog or website to show the slide show of images from Google Image search as below.

Before copying the embed code, customize the widget by setting your own search keywords. By setting the parameter type to face, the widget will show only the faces from the image results. Default is all. Filter images with explicit content by setting on to the paramater safe