Yahoo! Pipes – Indian News Sites

The news RSS Feeds by Economic Times are very concise and one has to visit the news article to read it entirely.

The same is true for number of other Indian News sites.

I always wanted to try out Yahoo! Pipes.

Below are the steps that I did –

Step 1:

From Sources, drag a new Fetch Feed and use URL – http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/rssfeeds/13357270.cms

The above gives us a RSS output –

Output

Step 2:

From Operators drag a Loop

Drag blue bubble connector from Fetch Feed of Step1 to the Loop.

From Sources drag a Fetch Page to the center section of Loop.

From Fetch Page URL drop down, select items.link
As the Fetch Page gets a page as string, to get the actual story contents only you extract the contents using the “Cut content from:” and “to:”, for economic times the contents of the actual story resided between google_ad_section_start –> and google_ad_section_end.

The above contents can be assigned to any items. I have assigned it to the items.link.

Output:

Step 3:

To restrict the output only to news title and contents, we can again use a Loop and drag a Item Builder from Sources.

Please note the value used for description – item.link.0.content

As in Step 2 we have assigned contents to items.link, actually the contents are inserted as child items.link.0.conent.

Output:

Notice the “google_ad_section_start –>” as a start of description. We will remove it in next step.

Step 4:

In order to remove the google ad related message, we will use loop again 😉 along with String Replace from String.

The final output is what I wanted 🙂

Output:

Below are some of the pipes that I have created, hope you find them useful –

Economic Times Infotech – ITes

eSakal

IBNLive
Swaminomics – SA Aiyar – Columnists – Opinion – The Times of India

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