நண்பன் ரவியின் விருப்பதிற்கேட்ப மூன்று புதிய யாகூ குழாய்களை உருவாக்கியுள்ளேன். இவை கூகிள், ஃபிளிக்கர் மற்றும் பிக்காசா தேடு பொறிகளின் தேடல் முடிவுகளில் உள்ள படங்களை slideshow-வாக காட்டும். இதை உங்கள் தளங்களில் widget ஆகவும் பயன்படுத்தி கொள்ளலாம். இந்த மூன்று குழாய்களை பற்றி தெரிந்து கொள்ள இந்த சுட்டிகளில் செல்லவும்.
Google Image Search, Flickr, Picasa, All in one pipe
பிக்காசாவில் statue of thiruvalluvar என்னும் தேடு சொல்லிற்கான ஸ்லைடு ஷோ இதோ, …
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Ever wondered why you ain’t getting the slide show output and Image tab while running an Yahoo Pipe? Well, the slide show will be shown only when the pipe has Image output. And for a Pipe to have Image output format it should have certain attributes in its output items. If your pipe consumes data from the inbuilt Flickr module, the required attributes are automatically populated. But when you are generating the list of images using some other means, for instance - by Google Search, you will have to populate the necessary attributes yourself to get slide show output for the pipes.
Following attributes and their values should be present for a Image output format,
media:group.media:content.media = image
media:group.media:content.url = URL of the image
How to populate these attributes in your Yahoo Pipe?
Let us that you have built a Pipe which generates a list of images. Open its source and place a Loop module. Connect the output of your pipe to the Loop module’s input. Drag the module “Item Builder” and drop it over the Loop module. Add the attributes mentioned above. For the URL attribute just select the attribute which has the URL of the image from your input. Choose emit all results from the Loop module and wire it to the Pipe output. Other attributes like title, link and description could be added in this manner. Finally, your pipe should look like the one below,
See this sample Yahoo pipe which shows a slide show of Google Image search results for Abhinav Bindra, the first solo Gold medal winner for India in Olympics. Click on “Edit source” to see how the required fields are constructed as mentioned above.
This is the slide show output for this pipe.
I’ve created a Yahoo Pipe to find the list the medals won by a country in the ongoing Olympics 2008. Visit the pipe, enter the country code and click on “Run”. Find the list of Country codes here.
The results are displayed as shown in this picture,
And how to create a feed for the medals won by your country’s Olympians from this Pipe? Here you go!!. This is the format of the feed url,
http://pipes.yahoo.com/yemkay/olympics2008medalfeed?_render=rss&country=XXX
Replace XXX with the country code. Open your feed reader, subscribe to this URL and be the first to know when Olympians from your country win medals. Feed for my country is still empty. Dont miss the hot ones - China and United States.
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I’ve created a website, Pipe Feeds, to publicize my Yahoo Pipes. I will publish the Yahoo pipes created for my personal use on this website. Most of my pipes attempt to simplify the way you use the internet - from surfing to subscription. My objective of creating Pipes is that,
if you like a content from a particular section of a website, let the content come to you next time without you having to visit the website again. Widgetizing and embedding are some other benefits from Yahoo Pipes. This diagram depicts it more clearly.
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To start with, I’ve published pipes for Cricket Quotes (from cricinfo), ThiruKural Widget and History of Tamil Cinema (from DinaThanthi).
The pipes Cartoons from Indian dailies, Cartoons from Tamil dailies and Adade Cartoons feed which were created in the past and later graduated to auto publishing sites are also listed.
The site is hosted on blogger. Each post will represent a pipe and has various links for embedding, gadget creation, feed subscription and Pipes source.
Read more about Yahoo Pipes and Pipe Feeds site. If you like to create any pipes for generating custom feeds, just drop a note.
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