Brandan's Thoughts » pipes http://brandan.thelloyds.net ... and stuff. Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:00:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Pikes Peak Area Crime Stoppers Feed http://brandan.thelloyds.net/2008/07/28/pp-crime-stoppers/ http://brandan.thelloyds.net/2008/07/28/pp-crime-stoppers/#comments Tue, 29 Jul 2008 01:50:32 +0000 Brandan http://brandan.thelloyds.net/?p=74 I just created my first Yahoo! Pipes feed for the Pikes Peak Area Crime Stoppers Featured Crimes page.

I was looking at the Pikes Peak Area Crime Stopper’s web site and I realized, “Hey, this is cool but without an RSS feed I’m never coming back here again”. Thanks to Mark Woodman I was aware of Yahoo! Pipes and I have wanted to try it out but I have been lazy and haven’t had any good ideas.  Then I stumbled across the Pikes Peak Area Crime Stoppers Featured Crimes page.

Normally when I reach a page that doesn’t have a feed but I really want one for, I will write my own Perl script to scrape the page and generate a feed from my own site.  But Yahoo! Pipes gives you a GUI interface to this process and is easier once you get the hang of it.  Hopefully, this will be easier to maintain in the future as well.

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