yahoo pipes powered comment feeds

mboehm

Hello, I suppose this falls in the category of add-ons... I just wanted to let people know that I created a yahoo pipe that parses the most recent 9 or fewer pages of comments for a given discussion and aggregates them into a neatly formated feed.

I created this pipe specifically for the forums at bostonfixed.us so I'm not sure how well it will work with other vanilla forums (bfixed appears to be running 1.1.8) but i imagine it can be re-purposed easily enough. Below is an example rss feed for bostonfixed:

intros

The most recent version at the writing of this post is found at http://pipes.yahoo.com/jitenshadesu/bff11v2 but is likely to change. Unfortunately, untill yahoo fixes a known bug in the V2 engine, this pipe must be run with V1, and that version can be found at http://pipes.yahoo.com/jitenshadesu/bff11v1.

mboehm

bah, a period got added on to the very last link above, breaking it. click this instead
http://pipes.yahoo.com/jitenshadesu/bff11v1

mboehm

Current release is now v1.3, is 98% functional, and can be found here -> http://pipes.yahoo.com/jitenshadesu/bffu13v1

Delivers an RSS formated feed of comments from bostonfixed.us/forum running vanilla 1.1.8.

User input is desired DiscussionID. If no input is supplied, the default is the introductions thread (id=911).

Features of this version include:
--parse comments.php html for comments
--preserve image and text formatting
--auto-embed multiple youtube objects
--retrieves 9 or fewer most recent discussion pages

mchamp

Do you know of any good online (or video) tutorials for feeding comments from various sites with Yahoo Pipes? Especially when there is no feed for the comments (or topics, discussions, etc).

Love what you did with Bostonfixed. I tried to repurpose it for a designobserver article's comments, but haven't succeeded yet. (I've managed to bring it in as Feed Page with a Rename of content as the title, but the comments run as one huge chuck of hyperlinked text. http://observatory.designobserver.com/entry.html?entry=23608

M.

Linc

My experience with Pipes was a bloody nightmare. Constant issues with not updating and compatibility issues trying to send the feed to other services.