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Re:Show HN: Early-stage Yahoo Pipes spiritual successor by michaelbuckbee on Monday May 29, 2017 @04:35PM (#14441266)
This is cool, but I feel like Zapier, IFTTT and their open source equivalents have moved far past Yahoo Pipes. How do you see this stacking up?
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Re:Show HN: Early-stage Yahoo Pipes spiritual successor by LoSboccacc on Monday May 29, 2017 @05:41PM (#14441612)
They do a fraction of the data manipulation options available from pipes and they require connectors being custom developed, plus they limit you on result delivery, which cannot be pulled.
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Re:Show HN: Early-stage Yahoo Pipes spiritual successor by bryanh on Monday May 29, 2017 @09:55PM (#14442599)
This is mostly out of date -- Zapier has lots of ways to do this without custom connectors:

* Formatter -- https://zapier.com/help/formatter/

* Filters -- https://zapier.com/help/filter/

* Webhooks -- https://zapier.com/help/webhooks/

* Code (JS/Py) -- https://zapier.com/help/code/ or https://zapier.com/help/code-python/

Plus if you want -- those custom developed apps can be added by anyone, for free: https://zapier.com/developer/.

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Re:Show HN: Early-stage Yahoo Pipes spiritual successor by LoSboccacc on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @01:55AM (#14443189)
No those don't do at all what pipe did. First of all, everything needs development. Secondly, webhooks and all that stuff are push only.

The real value of pipes was to pull data out from any compatible client. Wonderful for processing data and have it pulled from a feed reader, not so as a trigger engine, for that zapier abd ifttt are better, but to straight out pulling data from a reader processing websites on demand, none of those could replace pipes.

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Re:Show HN: Early-stage Yahoo Pipes spiritual successor by kilroy123 on Monday May 29, 2017 @05:37PM (#14441582)
Agree Zapier is pretty awesome and pretty powerful.

(I have no affiliation, just a happy customer)

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Re:Show HN: Early-stage Yahoo Pipes spiritual successor by GordonS on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @05:44AM (#14444050)
Do you know what the most fully featured OSS equivelants are?

I've been trying to find such a system that can read from RSS feeds and post to a Facebook Company Page, but to no avail.

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Re:Show HN: Early-stage Yahoo Pipes spiritual successor by mjn on Saturday June 03, 2017 @06:35AM (#14475751)
Huginn is one option: https://github.com/huginn/huginn
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Re:Show HN: Early-stage Yahoo Pipes spiritual successor by wocram on Monday May 29, 2017 @05:06PM (#14441439)
As far as I Kno, IFTTT only supports simple if a: then b triggers, you cannot have multiple inputs or outputs. Do zapier or others improve on this?
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Re:Show HN: Early-stage Yahoo Pipes spiritual successor by bryanh on Monday May 29, 2017 @09:52PM (#14442589)
Yeah, Zapier has multi-step workflows https://zapier.com/learn/getting-started-guide/multi-step-za....
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Re:Show HN: Early-stage Yahoo Pipes spiritual successor by Muanh on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @05:50AM (#14444067)
This doesn't include if true do A else do B logic right? I see they have filters, maybe this can be abused somehow?
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Re:Show HN: Early-stage Yahoo Pipes spiritual successor by onli on Monday May 29, 2017 @04:53PM (#14441371)
I'm interested in the answer to this questions myself :) For me, this is about the ease of use of the visual programming interface, and the focus on feeds to enable the pipe concept. I do not see this in the same space as Zapier and IFTTT, but I might be wrong!
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