Yahoo! Pipes is Flash-Friendly

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.

About Josh Tynjala

Josh Tynjala is a frontend developer, open source contributor, bowler hat enthusiast, and karaoke addict. You might be familiar with his project, Feathers UI, an open source user interface library for Starling Framework that is included in the Adobe Gaming SDK.

Discussion

  1. Ernest Ruzza

    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

  2. josh

    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?