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Show HN: Mashups - Resurrecting Yahoo Pipes, my side project
Hey everyone. For those who remember, Yahoo Pipes was a tool to
mashup RSS feeds back in the good ole' days. :) I really loved
that tool, but of course, it was shut down. Since then I know
there's been a few tools and attempts at bringing it back. I
always wanted to create Yahoo Pipes clone myself. So here is my
small side project - Mashups.io https://www.mashups.io It's an
MVP at the moment and well, let's see where it goes. Thanks all!
Author : pyromaker
Score : 107 points
Date : 2025-01-06 11:54 UTC (11 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.mashups.io)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.mashups.io)
| Xeoncross wrote:
| I used Yahoo! Pipes to make a consolidated social feed some years
| ago (https://github.com/Xeoncross/MicroStream). It actually
| placed as an honorable mention in AListAparts 10k challenge.
|
| It was really fun to have a service that could handle all the
| backend requests for you before sites like Zapier existed.
| arkensaw wrote:
| I miss yahoo pipes! I used to use it to aggregate movie reviews
| for some project I was working on. Brings me back.
| hiccuphippo wrote:
| I remember using it to read webcomics directly in my rss
| reader. It got me to really learn regular expressions.
| bewal416 wrote:
| Cool project! Yahoo Pipes was before my time, but I remember a
| Tom Scott video that mentioned it. Imagine having a service like
| that for free today...
|
| This video has ... views by Tom Scott:
| https://youtu.be/BxV14h0kFs0?si=J3sVKEJhkABUSjN_
| Nzen wrote:
| Along the same lines, I recommend Retool's retrospective
| article [0] about pipes, for some of the perspective on how it
| looked from inside yahoo. I'll grant that, towards the end, it
| is an ad for their service.
|
| [0] https://retool.com/pipes
| instagary wrote:
| Thanks for sharing this, so cool!
| xnx wrote:
| Also check out https://nodered.org/ and
| https://github.com/huginn/huginn if you're interested in free and
| open-source software you can run yourself.
| smarx007 wrote:
| Is there a consolidated comparison website for these? There is
| also n8n that is on the rise now.
| strawhatdev wrote:
| For some reason, on mobile, the demo and pricing links in the
| navbar get me a 404. Works fine on desktop.
| pyromaker wrote:
| Apologies - that's been fixed. Though I haven't really
| optimized the demo for the mobile view I think.
| mapt wrote:
| I played with pipes for a minute to manage an RSS ecosystem, but
| didn't build anything that I kept around.
|
| The site seems to be down.
|
| Let's say we all build wonderful apps on this, and then you run
| out of money or legal liability for hosting.
|
| Is there a way to construct this so that we can export our Pipes
| to some standard format that the next person to pick up the torch
| could activate, and migrate to that?
| raphar wrote:
| Brings me back too. But what stayed stuck on my memory, was
| something i read here on HN: at some point, one yahoo dev added
| his affiliate code to the links !!
| ChrisNorstrom wrote:
| Is anyone able to scrape Bloomberg news? For years now they have
| no RSS and have made it very difficult to create one.
| trekz wrote:
| Open RSS does https://openrss.org/www.bloomberg.com
|
| Has feeds for deep-linked sections too
| https://openrss.org/www.bloomberg.com/technology
| bambax wrote:
| Typing this in the console: $$("div[data-
| component='headline']")
|
| would select all titles in the home page. It shouldn't be super
| hard to build an RSS file using beautifulsoup for example. Can
| you be more specific about what you would need?
| webspinner wrote:
| Oh, this is really cool, and exactly what I'm looking for, but
| uh, I really wish I could test it! Thing is, I probably can't. I
| use a screen reader, so I doubt the interface would work for me,
| but maybe I'll try it, just for fun.
| xrd wrote:
| I had a lot of fun wiring and rewriting an RSS feed using this.
| Super simple and worked well. RIP Yahoo Pipes, but this looks
| like a worthy successor.
|
| And, I can't help but think there is gold to be found mining the
| graveyards of tech that people loved but was never a billion
| dollar revenue source...
| chrisfosterelli wrote:
| You can get a massive amount of money with the stock market
| plugin once you get the cryptocurrency and leverage upgrades.
| pplonski86 wrote:
| Why do you think that stock and crypto plugins will be very
| profitable? There are no tools to combine finance data in easy
| way?
| instagary wrote:
| The demo was intuitive, congrats on the launch! Can I ask what
| you used to build the canvas UI?
| paulimsouza wrote:
| can you add a JSON export option?
| pyromaker wrote:
| Good idea!
| pentagrama wrote:
| Great product, is awesome play with RSS feeds. Will check it out.
|
| Want to add for anyone wanting to quickly apply a filter to one
| RSS feed I recommend https://www.siftrss.com/, it doesn't require
| create an account and it works perfectly.
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