Yahoo Pipes, Microformats and Extendability

I think Yahoo Pipes is really cool. The main attraction is its slick user interface and ease of use.

I just created a pipe of all of the Recent Questions of Yedda translated using Babelfish to French and it took less than 5 minutes.

I do have a couple of ideas that I think will make Yahoo Pipes into something very interesting:

  • Accept Regular HTML pages
  • Have a built-in Microformats parser
  • Support for a more complex piping scripting (perhaps in the form of a JavaScript script)
  • Support for state saving (or at least a limited way such as the ability to compare the previous version of the page/feed you are piping)

**Accept Regular HTML pages

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