My Global weather activity pipe was not feeding through very much RSS to my site, which is maybe because the filter requirements were not the relevant or topical. I therefore removed this from my site and created another pipe, which this time feeds through information about the Earthquake which has struck China. This is a recent news story and therefore may provide me with more breaking news, although for some reason, it’s saying that its not working at the moment. I’ve done everything the same as before so it must be a problem at their end.

I am really getting the hang of Yahoo pipes now. In order to test my knowledge I have tried to create a pipe to feed in latest stories about a particular current news story. I therefore decided to create a pipe which feeds in the latest info on the Burma Cyclone tragedy. I created another pipe which filters out stories about the natural disaster only, and sends them through to my site as an RSS feed. Here is a screen shot of my new pipe working:

This will allow me to keep up to date with this one particluar story and filter out all other unwanted news reports. Not bad eh!

I’m now starting to understand why RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication…

I have managed to get the new Global Weather RSS feed working correctly. I went back into the saved yahoo pipe, then published it. I then hit the ‘Run Pipe’ option which opened the feed. I hit the more options and selected ‘Get as RSS’, which I omitted to do first time round.

Finally I copied the URL at the top of the page and pasted it into the relevant configuration option on the selected RSS feed widget in my worpress. I saved the configuration and viewed my site and my Global Weather RSS feed is now showing in my sidebar.

Here is a screen shot of what my new pipe looks like:

I have created another yahoo pipe to feed the latest weather activity and news into my site. However when I tried adding the published pipe link to a spare RSS widget in word press it brought up the following message:

However, my friend Chris had the same problem with his RSS feed on Friday, but this miraculously sorted itself out a few hours later, so I’m guessing that this is an external problem and not something I can control on Wordpress. Therefor I will wait for a couple of days and then check to see if it is working.

Today, afer a few teething problems I have managed to successfully get a Yahoo Pipe working on my blog which feeds through the latest football news from a variety of sources including Yahoo, Google and Sky Sports. To do this, first of all I visited the site pipes.yahoo.com. Then I clicked on create a pipe. This takes you to the pipe creation page. On here I then dragged on the fetch feed source onto the creation area. I entered the URL of the sites that I wanted to draw the information into my feed from (Sky Sports, Google etc).

Once I had done this  then dragged and dropped a filter box from the Options drop down menu. I entered in her the filters that I wanted. This allows the pipe to only feed through to my site the information I require, which in this case is Football and Leeds United. I linked the Fetch Feed box to the Filter box facility.

Once I had entered this information into the filter I then linked the filter box to the ‘Pipe Output’ box. Here is a screen shot of what a pipe looks like:

When I had finished linking the pipe sections I then saved my pipe as Footy Latest. Then I went into the properties section and added the relevant details such as Pipe title, description, tags etc. I then hit the publish button, which took me to the screen which produced the URL i needed to copy.

I went back onto my Wordpress dashboard/presentation/widgets. I then dragged an RSS widget onto my sidebar so that my Football Latest Feed would display on my blog. Finally I hit the settings configuration option on the RSS widget and firstly pasted the Yahoo Pipe URL into the relevent box and configured the widget so that it would show a maximum of 5 latest football news stories in my side bar.

Although this sounds like a long winded process, it was in fact fairly simple to do, and now I have the latest news in on the beautiful game fed through directly onto my site. All it took was a bit of patience and a quick viewing of a Yahoo Pipe video tutorial on Youtube and Bob’s your Uncle.