This Pipe demonstrates how to use the Web Service module to POST items in a pipe to an external web service (in JSON format). This allows developers to extend the Pipes functionality to do whatever they need. The original items are replaced by the web services JSON or RSS response.

For this example, I want a Flickr San Francisco fog photo geo RSS feed that puts the photo and extra data such as, where the photo was taken and the date/time into the description. I also want geo tags so the feed renders a map view.The base YQL query call says: Find Flickr photos that are tagged…

This example uses the Fetch Page module to retrieve an HTML page and parse out the local train schedule using the City that was inputted.

This example uses the Fetch Page module Pipe as a sub Pipe to retrieve multiple train schedules.

Many city and local governments now make their crime statistics available on-line. This data is provided in a wide range of formats and with varying levels of detail. The city of Washington, D.C. maintains an XML file of their crime data. This example uses the Rename module to convert this XML into…

This example shows how you can process multiple feeds separately, then merge them together at the end using the Union module.

tennis and football news from yahoo sports

This example uses Yahoo! Search to find information on Napoleon in the French-language version of Le Monde. Using Translate as a sub-module to Loop, we translate the item.description element into English. The Loop module assigns the translated text back to item.description.Note that only the…