Yahoo Pipes
Mashup your life without any server side code
Cristiano Betta

Mashup your life

Mashups

1. Query some data

FROM MULTIPLE LOCATIONS

WITH DIFFERENT
PROTOCOLS

2. Do something with it

TAKES PROCESSOR TIME

UNIFY THE DATA

3. Show the result

YAHOO PIPES

UNIX PIPES FOR THE WEB

YES, LIKE POPFLY

LIFESTREAM EXAMPLE

74 LINES OF HTML

NO SERVER SIDE LOGIC

EXPORT TO RSS, XML AND
JSON

PrototypeJS

http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?
_id=nLJtNct93BGnML4nl7okhQ&_render=j
son&l=50

http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?
_id=nLJtNct93BGnML4nl7okhQ&_render=j
son&l=50&_callback=drawLifestream

function drawLifestream(item){
var div = document.createElement('div');
Element.extend(div);
div.addClassName('post_content');
div.innerHTML=item[\"content:encoded\"].unescapeHTML();
return div;
}

Cool Notes

Make it dynamic

http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?
_id=nLJtNct93BGnML4nl7okhQ&_render=j
son&l=50&_callback=drawLifeStream

Circumvent caching

http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?
_id=nLJtNct93BGnML4nl7okhQ&_render=j
son&l=50&_callback=drawLifeStream&evilt
okoken=hdsaa8sd79s8dd98asd7f7

Cache with PHP

Cache with PHP
Yeah, I know, that’s server side code

Not so cool notes

SOMETIMES IT’S VERY SLOW

UNCLEAR ABOUT
COMMERCIAL USE