September 5, 2008

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

August 10, 2008

RSS Feed for Olympics 2008 medals by country

The pipe accepts a country code and gives the list of medals won by the country in the ongoing Beijing Olympics 2008.

To create a feed for your country just replace XXX with the country code in the URL,

http://pipes.yahoo.com/yemkay/olympics2008medalfeed?_render=rss&country=XXX


For example, feed for China is http://pipes.yahoo.com/yemkay/olympics2008medalfeed?_render=rss&country=CHN and that of USA is http://pipes.yahoo.com/yemkay/olympics2008medalfeed?_render=rss&country=USA

Find the list of countries and their codes here

Here is a sample pipe output for "United States"

In any of these export options just append &country=COUNTRY_CODE to the URL to see the results for the particular country.

August 8, 2008

History Of Tamil Cinema

The pipe creates a feed for Thiraipada Varalaaru (Tamil Cinema History) published in Dinathanthi magazine.