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This you can put in your pipe and smoke it, Drupal is community pipe-ing

Yahoo's Pipe service is realy great. You can build a webservices with webservices via a drop and drag interface that feels so naturally it feels like you are running a native application. I couldnt believe this was done in HTML/Ajax/DHTML/buzzword. It *really* feels like a native application.

So I played with it a bit and within a couple of minutes I made a "webservice" that searches for "Drupal" content from

  1. www.google.com
  2. ebay.com
  3. flickr.com
  4. api.ebay.com
  5. rss.api.ebay.com
  6. api.flickr.com

(note: the Google search isnt working since Google blocks automated searches But I have it in just in case they get it.)

See it in action at My Pipes.Y! (Y! account needed but you want one to play with Pipes, believe me it is worth the email address!) Play with it here, make it better and share your service. The result is online as well and you can import it as RSS in your feedreader. Never miss anything from Yahoo!, EBay or Flickr again mentioning the word "Drupal".

Tim can stop defining "Web 2.0" and just point towards this pipe site; easy, rich application, mashups, RSS, hell take one buzzword 2.0 and see if that doesnt fit in this pipes.

If the Internet is not a big truck. And it is not "a series of tubes.", it is pipes! And we are plumbing!

By bertboerland at 10/02/2007 - 09:54 | drupal | english | geeks/nerds | Happy | hobby | internet culture | search-engines | Social Software | xml | bertboerland's blog | 1158 reads

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Pipes Module

Bert-

Any interest in working on a Pipes module for Drupal? I'm thinking initially of working on something in time for OSCMS.

The idea would be Views-style functionality:

- Define a Pipe in Yahoo!
- Use a Drupal admin to acquire the pipe feed.
- Have a configuration for each pipe feed that lets you:
- examine the data schema
- create a 'node_view()' style template for output
- define views of the pipe data (pages, blocks, etc.)
- control the update/cache settings for the pipe.

Doesn't seem to difficult to implement. Let me know if you are interested in working on anything.

By agentrickard (not verified) at Mon, 12/02/2007 - 7:59pm | reply

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