How to Build Your Own Lifestream with Yahoo Pipes and NO Server Side Logic
Step 3: Combine the Sources
So, now that we have set up this rather complex LifestreamItem module we can do something very simple and use this module a couple of times in a different pipe and mashup all our data in one. In my case you can see the result here.
As you can see I loaded a couple of different sources including my Twitter, Flickr, and Upcoming, just by adding new LifestreamItem modules for all of them and giving them the correct RSS/Atom feeds as source. I quickly noticed that some streams were off by an hour or sometimes more, which is why I made the little LifestreamItem modules take a delay parameter to adjust.
If you want to check if your data is in the right order, just select the bottom “output” module and take a look at de debug output. The debug output gives you a quick look of what your output will look like.
Nice! I built mine (http://360.whatfettle.com) using Venus and keep meaning to present it on a SIMILE timeline ..
Hi Paul. What I like about your version is that show pictures/photos. I was thinking of doing something in SIMILE, but if you add a lot of rich media content that might get a bit confusing quickly.
I had never heard of Venus. What is it? It’s a back-end technology I assume? Thing to remember here is that my project was also kind of an exercise for me to see what Yahoo Pipes and what I could do with it.
Hi, the pipe debug link in this page is broken.
Which link do you mean?
There is loads of stuff broken, especially the images. My hosting provider lost them by accident and I still haven’t had time to put them back.
It was the one on page four (I didn\’t realise the comments were common across all pages). P.S. thanks for the article!
The link seems to work fine. Maybe you can’t access it because you aren’t logged in. The debug output is only accessible when you are editing the pipe. So go and make an account and start editing your or my pipe.