Using Yahoo pipes to feed Facebook notes

November 19th, 2007 by Alistair MacDonald Leave a reply »

I have been playing with Yahoo Pipes recently as a replacement service to Afeeda that has sadly closed down. It is a very useful service, although one for developers and not the man in the street.

The first mashup that I did was one to combine the feeds from my main and vox bloggs to automatically import in to Facebook. The import is actually done using the feature built in to the Facebook “Notes” application from the pipe’s RSS feed. The pipe in question retrieves the feeds, filter out older posts, and then sort chronologically and crop. The feed is cropped because Facebook thought I was spamming the system when originally I imported many many posts. If you need to do the same then you are welcome to copy my pipe and alter it for your blogs.

As a side effect of doing this I have decided to stop using Twitter Feed as I don’t want every blog post to be listed as a note and a status update.

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