Yahoo Pipes: A Complete Video Tutorial On How To Use Yahoo Pipes
Earlier this week I wrote a post about how I wanted to figure out how I could take all my various RSS feeds (StumbleUpon, various blogs I contribute on and a few of my other blogs) and mash them all into one Mega RSS feed for my readers.
I asked my friend, David, if he could help me. We messed around quite a bit with Google Reader. We were able to take multiple feeds and put them into a shared folder to create the one RSS feed for reader; however, there were MANY limitation and things that I didn’t like about this option. Google Reader didn’t allow me a way to filter or sort the content I wanted to syndicate.
David then showed me Yahoo Pipes. And I have to say… my jaw DROPPED!!! Yahoo Pipes is amazing! You can mix, mash, filter, sort, twist, turn etc… anything you want. Include your FlickR account, Stumble account and throw in your Google video uploads… etc… With Yahoo Pipes, you can do just about anything.
The problem…
I didn’t freaking know how to use it!! I went back to David and explained to him that I was very impressed with Yahoo Pipes, but I have NO CLUE how to use it. In return, he told me that he would make a video tutorial on how to use Yahoo Pipes and also offered to share it with my readers. I was so happy to hear that!
So, with out further delay… here is the post that many people have been waiting for. This week I received around 100 offline/online responses and follow ups on when I was going to release a solution to creating a MEGA RSS Feed for your blog, and here it is.
If you would be so kind… I would really appreciate it if everyone would take an extra second to DIGG THIS ONE! I could really use the votes! 
Enjoy the video and be sure to tell David thanks! I have no idea about doing videos, but this one is killer and I am sure he has quite a bit of time invested.
How To Use Yahoo Pipes
As mentioned above, I could really use some DIGG votes and if you have a StumbleUpon or Sphinn account, showing me a little love there too would be awesome!
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Date/Time: 10-20-2007 20:30:46 Comment #5939
I have to say that I would have been stumped too were it not for the video. I’ll have to look it over a couple of times, but thank you David for putting this together and Garry for bringing the topic to surface!
Date/Time: 10-20-2007 20:43:17 Comment #5940
Now that I have posted the video I am going to work on creating a very nice new syndication RSS feed and replace it with my existing one, which is burned in FeedBurner. Doing this will allow me to upgrade my source feed without losing my FeedBurner subscriber numbers.
Date/Time: 10-20-2007 21:29:42 Comment #5941
Hello. I ben reading your blog for about a month. I like the video and I want to do this soon on my site. I digged it too.
Alex
Date/Time: 10-21-2007 04:11:13 Comment #5944
Fantastic resource. I noted Tahoo Pipes some time ago and tinkered once or twice but was completely losst. A thousand thanks to both you and David for putting this together.
Date/Time: 10-21-2007 06:06:40 Comment #5945
Well done. Thanks Garry
Date/Time: 10-21-2007 09:26:43 Comment #5948
Glad everyone liked the video. I had a lot of fun making it and must say doing videos for me is easier than blogging. I already have another video in the works that was inspired by Garry and a couple other people. Thanks again!
Date/Time: 10-21-2007 09:38:17 Comment #5949
Way cool… I am excited to see that people are enjoying the video. Today is a lazy day for me, so I am going to have a lot of fun experimenting around with Yahoo Pipes. Thanks again David for making the video.
Date/Time: 10-21-2007 10:50:03 Comment #5951
Also worth checking out is Orchestr8’s AlchemyPoint, another mashup tool. It lets you mash up web pages as well as RSS/ATOM content, and provides some pretty neat visual content scraping capabilities.
Date/Time: 10-22-2007 14:24:22 Comment #5979
Great Video Tutorial. I’ll have to give this a shot. I don’t use digg that often, but I think I’m going to digg this one!
- Owen.
Date/Time: 10-26-2007 04:42:14 Comment #6019
I wonder if I can somehow to simplify some feeds. Can I do it with Ypipes?
Date/Time: 10-26-2007 12:09:02 Comment #6027
Symbian,
Yahoo Pipes is a ton of fun, you can create the simplest or the most complex pipes you want. Give it a shot and have fun! I love it…
Date/Time: 10-27-2007 09:21:18 Comment #6053
Woah! Now I’m really impressed by this, I’d never really looked at Pipes before, had real idea of what it was capable of, but now I’ve got a few ideas going round my head of how I could make use of it.
A great video Garry, are you planning on publishing more tutorials like this?