How to Mash Up RSS Feeds with Yahoo Pipes
Posted 05/07/2007 at 5:55pm
| by Johnathon Williams
1. Create Your Pipe
Sign in with your Yahoo ID (or create a new ID if you don't already have one) at the Pipes home page at pipes.yahoo.com, and then click Create Pipe. Click the Untitled tab at the top left and give your project a name. Lots of pipes are in the, uh, pipeline, so be creative if you want yours to stand out in the list. (You can always change it later.)

What's in a name? A lot - especially if you want to share your work with others.
2. Select Your Feeds
Don't know programming? Scripting? The toolset on the Pipes editing screen seem tough? Fear not - it's just drag-n-drop. Under Sources, drag the Fetch Feed module to the workspace. Click the plus icon to create enough text boxes for the feeds you want to combine, and paste the URL for each feed into a box. The URL must be the full Web address to the RSS file. Most sites advertise this address under a RSS, XML, or Atom link, which you can Control-click and copy. Or just look for the RSS icon.

A "?" icon in the Fetch Feed module means the feed address is wrong.
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