April 10th, 2008
I developed a brief obsession with Yahoo! Pipes, which bills itself as an “interactive feed aggregator and manipulator”. But if you’re used to scripting, the graphical programming environment can seem a bit limiting. I wrote a simple PHP feed parser/masher to mimic the functionality of Pipes. Here are two feeds I subscribe to that I created with the tool (try it for yourself: feedmash.zip):
NBA Top 10:
http://www.youtube.com/rss/user/NBA/videos.rss
→ http://feedmash.emmettnicholas.com/nba_top_10.php
Perry Bible Fellowship (with inline comics):
http://pbfcomics.com/feed/feed.xml
→ http://feedmash.emmettnicholas.com/perry_bible_fellowship.php
October 22nd, 2008 at 3:01 pm
Hey Dude,
So I might end up using some of your code for a project I’m doing at work. That is, if yahoo pipes does not suffice
We might need to script some extra functionality that isn’t in pipes - so your code could definitely help.
-Andrew