Creating a Simple Yahoo Pipe in Minutes

As a continuation from my last post on Yahoo Pipes I decided to try and create one to see just how simple it is. You have to have some basic knowledge on how to construct code to use it but I must say, it was truly very simple. The Pipe I created converts an RSS feed from German to English. My husband is German so I've been trying to learn as much of the language as I can given his parents do not speak English by reading news at tagesschau.de. It's hard to find the time with my husband to translate what I'm reading so I decided to try using a Pipe to translate the RSS feed for me. Here's how it was created:

Step 1: Add the components

All that is needed is to drag and drop the components from the list on the left. I added Fetch Feed and 2 Loops (each with a translate component). By default the Pipe Output component is automatically created when creating a pipe.

Step 2: Configure the components

In this step I placed the RSS URL into the Fetch Feed component and set the translation from German to English by selecting it from the component selection list.

Step 3: Connect the components

Now for the easiest part, connecting the components. All that you need to do is click on the bottom of one component and then click on the top of the next. It's that simple.

Here's what the finished product looks like:

This took me less than 5 minutes to create. A dubugger also exists and I found it ti also be quite helpful. It was amazingly simple. While the translation isn't perfect, it will at least help me understand what I'm looking at in German. I plan to play around with this more. It really is as easy as 1, 2, 3.