Just wondering if you could help me ... I am trying to create a pipe to use with dlvr.it .... For tumblr .

How do you take a feed and add tags to it ... so it takes care of the dlvr.it lack of tag function ? I know dlvr.it has the tag function but only if the feed already has tags .

I would appriciate any / all help .

Hi Joe,

Do you mean something like: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=80c9d63d9bbda6129aef8ed4...

Put in your RSS feed, and a tag to add to the categories...

God bless you :) ... I will try it right away . You have no idea how helpful you have been . Thank you very much

SM Promotions - Yes it worked flawless . I can't tell you how much I appreciate it . Thank you very much .

SM Promotions - Do you know what happened to that pipe ? I was going to use it but it is gone now .

yes, I deleted it as I saw it had been cloned... I assumed that you had cloned it and were using it on your clone... I will recreate it now...

I cant remember if this was the same as before.... let me know: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=af20b8e9437da72b19078d39...

Clone it so that you have a copy of it on your own account... then post here and I will take mine down. :)

Great . I cloned it .Thanks a bunch . You have been very helpful .

A question : is there a way to add more than 1 feed ?

hey, yeah thats easy. Do you want to use the same tags for all the feeds? or use different tags for the feeds?

A simple way would be to use this pipe many times for every feed you wish to use... then use a merger pipe such as the one I have here: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=fe5ab4280662d1df70e1e350... (that will merge up to 25 feeds together, sorting by date order, and truncating to only show the 20 most recent items).

clone that one and fiddle about if you like... or if you want it all to work from one pipe... you can edit the pipe you have already cloned. Everything above the pipe output... copy that beside it. then instead of plugging them both into pipe output (which you cant do) drag out a "union" from operators. this merges up to 5 feeds together into one. then from the unions output, connect that to pipe output. :) do that for as many feeds as you need.

You are a Pipe Genius :) Is there something / anything you don't know how to do ? :)

Thanks a bunch . You have been a great help .

lol thanks for the kind words... but to be honest I still feel like a bit of a pipes noob... theres plenty I have wanted to do but couldnt figure out lol.

Another service you might be able to make a use out of is www.feed43.com. can scrape any website and create a feed from it. the free version updates every 6 hours... and the paid versions are very affordable.

Its not easy to use at first though... you need to look through the source code of the webpage and give feed43 a patter to follow to take information off the page for the feed. There are 2 wildcards you can use... {*} and {%}. they both mean "look for the bit before this, then jump to the bit after this. With the {%} it takes that out for use as a variable. so you might look for href="{%}" as part of your scrape... and that would take the link from that search and export it into a variable for use later on in when setting up the feed.

Don't get me started :) I actually started with feed43.com ... couldn't figure it out either . Than moved to Yahoo pipes .... and thank god you generously shared and helped .

It would be awesome if I could figure out how to use feed43.com to scrape pictures and send it as a feed to Yahoo Pipe for tagging .

Give me a link to the tumblr page you need to scrape from, and what exactly you want to scrape.... and ill give you the info for each box in feed43. :)

Dude ... You sure ? I don't want to impose !!!!

In any case ; any photo tumlr page will do . I don't have any specific one in mind .

Using: http://brockdavis.tumblr.com/

I got: http://feed43.com/4471422205583465.xml

I will tell you exactly what I put in each box:

Address: http://brockdavis.tumblr.com/

Global search Pattern: <div id="cols">{%}

Item (repeatable) Search Pattern: photo_full{*}src="{%}"

Feed Title: Tumble Photo's

Feed Link: http://brockdavis.tumblr.com/

Feed Description: Description

Item Title Template: Photo

Item Link Template: {%1}

Item Content Template: <img src="{%1}">

merge all items into single one: leave unchecked and blank.

hit preview, and viola! :)

That should work for anyones tumblr page... just change the URL for their URL.

Also, in my union pipe (http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=fe5ab4280662d1df70e1e350...) take a look at the source... Just above the pipe output is a loop. This takes out the delivered by feed43 service advert from the feed. You can use that same loop in any pipe you will be using feed43 feeds with, and it will result in no adverts within the pipe output. :) (it searched the desctiption for the first occuring "--", and then chops the rest of the desctiption off. So if a feed description happens to have a "--" in, it will be cut short by that... but its rarely used so youll be fine.)

I will try it right away .

Just a thought though - You have some mad skills .... I am not kidding . You should be making hand over fist money online .... I am jealous ( it is a first for me :) ) Half of the guys I know couldn't dream up your skills !!! ... and they call them selves gurus !!!!

I just tried it ... it worked up to the "Global search Pattern" ... but than I get an error : Global pattern didn't match anything

What did I do wrong ?

I tried it a couple more times ... same error .

Hello everyone . I am still stuck - If there is anyone that can help .... it would be greatly appreciated .

Thanks

hey there,

i was hoping you could help me.

I feed yahoo pipes into dlvr.it to make a new RSS feed.

for some strange reason the images are not coming across from the RSS feed.

Yahoo pipes seems to only see image tags, but no url's to the images.

this has been driving me insane.

how can i fix this?

In Regex item.description i can see in the debug area the source code shows the following in the description tag

<div class="field field-type-text-with-summary">
  
  
                <p><img alt="" style="width:740px;height:340px;"/></p>        </div>

however no image src :((

If I add the original RSS url to google reader I can see a perfect RSS feed with images.

helpppp please :(