Comments on: Piping RedMonk.com

By: Emlak musaviri

Emlak musaviri — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:05:59 +0000

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tecosystems » 2007: The Year in Review, from Macro to Micro — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:46:21 +0000

[...] controversy, while offering up my thoughts on the loss of Kurt Vonnegut. On the technical front, I experimented with Yahoo Pipes by using it to filter links posts out of the redmonk.com homepage. In the face of [...]

By: Geof F. Morris

Geof F. Morris — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 16:01:29 +0000

Ahhh, you’re using Pipes for something I use Planet for server-side. It’s an interesting approach, pushing the parsing load out over to Yahoo! … and one I may consider on another site that I really need to have pulling in such a fashion. Hmmmm.

By: Lance Robinson

Lance Robinson — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 21:00:15 +0000

Another option for you (and for you, James) is to take more control over the feed parsing by doing it on your own local machine or server. You should take a look at RSSBus, I believe you will find it useful.

By: James Abley

James Abley — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 08:27:28 +0000

I would echo Donnie’s comment. I had a similar issue, but I wanted to set up Pipes to filter based on the category of a post. This seems to work when there is a single category for an item, but I haven’t got it to work when there are multiple categories for an item. I haven’t found anyone yet who can point out to me what I’m doing wrong, so I’ve gone for the “filter based on title approach” as well. But that sucks; what’s the point of metadata if you can’t use it?

By: Simon Willison

Simon Willison — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 00:29:07 +0000

If you’re worried about Pipes’ uptime (which seems to be fine at the moment) you could always pipe the output from Pipes back through FeedBurner - that way if Pipes goes down FeedBurner will still serve up the last copy of the feed.

By: Donnie Berkholz

Donnie Berkholz — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 23:13:34 +0000

Be careful about having too loose of a match. It’s fairly plausible that one of you will at some point have a regular post containing “links” in the subject.

By: Patrick Mueller

Patrick Mueller — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 21:07:28 +0000

An easier way to do this, perhaps, if WP supports fancy-pants tagging capabilities, would be to arrange to have your links entries tagged with something like “links”. Then hope you could get a feed with selectable tagged entries (inclusion and exclusion, obviously, in this case). Then you could imagine a feed url sufffixed with the tag predicate (”!links”), and it’d give you what you need.

I bug Dave Johnson about tagging capabilities in Roller every so often (since I use it, since developerWorks uses it), and I think it can do this sort of thing.

By: Sandy Kemsley

Sandy Kemsley — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 19:44:58 +0000

Pretty easy to do just by adding parameters to your WordPress feeds without changing anything in WordPress itself. First, in WordPress, go to the Categories pages and find the number of the category for your links posts.

For example, say that the WordPress install for your blog is at http://www.redmonk.com/sogrady and the category number for your links posts is 12. The following feed will give you everything except category 12 (links):

http://www.redmonk.com/sogrady/index.php?feed=rss2&cat=-12

You can use that as input to Feedburner to create a feed there, or subscribe to that feed (with the parameters) directly.

By: James

James — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 18:44:34 +0000

stepho you are a king!