A couple weeks ago, Yahoo! Pipes went live to much fanfare from the tech community. For those unfamiliar, Pipes offers a way to mashup, manipulate, and aggregate feeds from all over the net. The slogan in the title says, “rewire the web”, and that’s exactly what you can do with its cool visual interface. As of Saturday, Flash and Flex developers just gained a very powerful tool. Pipes now has a cross-domain policy file.
Now, a million news and blog feeds are at your fingertips. You can use Pipes with RSS or JSON output. Speaking of JSON, you know that there’s a parser already written for ActionScript 3 in the corelib open source project, right? That’s more than enough reason to try it out if you haven’t yet.
Don’t forget, if you make a cool Flash app with Pipes or any of the other Yahoo! APIs that are accessible with Flash, share it with everyone on the Yahoo! Flash Gallery. Now, go have fun.
Josh,
i have a flash template written and need to have it published. Is this something that your business does? If so, please let me know how I proceed.
Thanks
Ernie
Sorry Ernest, that’s not something I typically do.
when I do the HTTP Request w/ a pipe in Flex I get a “The reference to entity “query” must end with the ‘;’ delimiter.” What does that mean?
If you have any questions about the use of Pipes, please direct them at the official message boards. There’s one called “Developer Help” which should be most helpful.