Here's how to build your own Yahoo Pipe

20.02.2007

I do a similar search on Google News and paste its URL into a new URLBuilder.

From these two modules, I drag Pipes to the Fetch module, after clicking on its + button to open up two more input fields.

Clicking on the Pipe Output module (or hovering over the Debugger tab at the bottom and clicking on Pipe Output from the resulting pop-up list) shows me in the Debugger field that the appropriate headlines are being generated.

My Pipe now combines RSS feeds from Computerworld, Network World and InfoWorld, along with customized news searches from Yahoo and Google.

To add a little further customization, I drag out a TextInput module from the User inputs category. As the name suggests, it collects text string input from users. Other available modules allow the input of URLs, locations or dates.