Pipe Feeds

Amul Cartoons

noreply@blogger.com (Karthik) — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 04:44:00 +0000

A feed for Amul cartoons

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Cricinfo Cartoons

noreply@blogger.com (Karthik) — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 09:51:00 +0000

A pipe for Cricinfo cartoons

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RSS Feed for Paralympic Games 2008 medals by country

noreply@blogger.com (Karthik) — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 10:59:00 +0000

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,

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

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

noreply@blogger.com (Karthik) — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:07:00 +0000

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.

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Slideshow widget for Flickr images

noreply@blogger.com (Karthik) — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:55:00 +0000

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).

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Slideshow widget for Picasa images

noreply@blogger.com (Karthik) — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:40:00 +0000

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.

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Widget showing slideshow from Google Image search results

noreply@blogger.com (Karthik) — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:40:00 +0000

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.

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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

RSS Feed for Olympics 2008 medals by country

noreply@blogger.com (Karthik) — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 19:19:00 +0000

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"

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

History Of Tamil Cinema

noreply@blogger.com (Karthik) — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 13:08:00 +0000

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

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Cartoons from Indian magazines

noreply@blogger.com (Karthik) — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:39:00 +0000

This pipe collects cartoons published on the websites of Indian magazines of Times Of India, Hindu, Indian Express, Economic Times and Deccan Chronicle. Don't miss the site Toons of India which archives the cartoons day by day.

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Adade Cartoons

noreply@blogger.com (Karthik) — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:47:00 +0000

Adade cartoons are created by Madhi and published on Dinamani. The cartoons reflect the current affairs in the Indian politics and every cartoon has a message packed in it. Adade cartoons are very popular thanks to the extraordinary humor sense of Madhi. This feed contains the list of Adade cartoons available on Dinamani website. For browsing old entries of Adade cartoons visit Adade Cartoons website, which archives the cartoons day by day and tags them.

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Kural widget

noreply@blogger.com (Karthik) — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:20:00 +0000

Show random Thirukkural on your site or blog using this widget powered by yahoo pipe. Couplets are extracted from the Tamil Nation kural listing and a random kural is selected and shown in the widget. Use the options below to get the embed code for the kural widget.

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Cartoons from Tamil Magazines

noreply@blogger.com (Karthik) — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:41:00 +0000

Read cartoons from Tamil daily magazines of Dinamani, Dinathanthi and Dinamalar by subscribing to a single feed and don't miss. Visit the Tamil Cartoons website to browse an archive of Tamil cartoons.

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Cricket Quotes

noreply@blogger.com (Karthik) — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:29:00 +0000

Enjoy reading the funny quotes from the world of cricket. The quotes are taken from Cricinfo website and a relevant thumb image is added by means of a Google search using the quoter's name. Be prepared for the upcoming Ashes tour by subscribing to this feed and without missing any sledging quotes.

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About Pipe Feeds

noreply@blogger.com (Karthik) — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 05:51:00 +0000

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

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.