Using Yahoo Pipe in Blogs

Yahoo has given a great oppurtunity for non programmers to try their hand at programming without involving any codes. Being a Graphical User Interface.. or rahter in a lay-man’s term.. drag -and-drop and start building is the motto of Yahoo Pipes. Its essential we gather some knowledge about Web-feeds towards understnaing Yahoo pipes.Following which, Building your own personal Yahoo Pipe shall not be difficult

However, once you have completed and executed your yahoo pipe, you might want to use the data it gives ( after all the personalised sorting and filtering) into your blog. For this you might have to go back and Run your pipe and get the Rss -feed-of-the-Pipe using the link at the bottom of your pipe result

Using the Pipe-feed to display data within your blog

  1. By using the Blogger-Feed-Widget
    1. Select  Template-Page Elements – Feed Widget
    2. Give the Rss Feed of the Pipe
    3. If all is well.. this widget will give you the top 5 results of the pipe

  2. By using services of Feed2JS
    1. Feed2JS ( Feed to Javascript) is a site that helps us in converting our Rss Feeds into script code.. which can be used in the HTML / Javascript widget of the blogger
    2. This shall display as many result you have chosen in the pipe ( using the Truncate Module)

  1. Go to Feed2JS
  2. Give the Rss of the Pipe in the URL field
  3. Select the Various options appropriately
  4. Select the UTF-8 Character Encoding if you want to display non-english languages
  5. Click on Preview feed before generating the Javascript
  6. Use the code generated here in the HTML Widget of the blog


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One Reply to “Using Yahoo Pipe in Blogs”

  1. Deepa,
    Namaskar and thanks for visiting my blog. Sorry to say I did not understand what it means to be tagged. The link you left there takes me to the comment window itself. Fortunately I have told you before that I am kinda illiterate in many aspects of the web 🙁 ….when you have time could you please explain ?

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