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Nick,

What a great sample pipe and thanks for your kind words. I'd encourage you to add a description and tag it "example" so that others are more likely to find it. You could also conceivably use feeds from sites like Sonicliving so that it's showing YouTube videos of YOUR top 10 or upcoming concert acts.

Kevin
- Pipes Design Dude

Even though it's coming from youtube, it won't output in MediaRSS? Is that a GooTube issue, or a Pipes restriction?

Glad you like it, Kevin! I'll tag it as an "example," as you suggest.

Critter, this pipe uses a Yahoo! Search of YouTube.com, so the MRSS information isn't available (ie: I'm searching YouTube's site, not their feeds). However, I could use the artist name from the iTunes feed to create a YouTube feed of that artist, and that would contain the MRSS information (provided that Pipes doesn't strip it).

I've been playing around with this too. I've found YouTube tag search to be quite good at producing RSS, but had much better luck with Google Video. I've been able to get a pretty good hit rate for the UK iTunes Top 10 with an advanced search on Google Videos. See the results of this pipe at http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/MDRjlNa92xGws0rm0kqv4w

Dave, that "Google Music Video Search" module is pretty handy - thanks for sharing it!

This was a clever pipe. It’s hard to find any truly useful pipes. I think (hope) that someone will come up with a pipe that is so useful that the non-tech crowd will start paying attention. I created some high-quality video tutorials for Yahoo Pipes. With your permission, here is the link:

http://usefulvideo.blogspot.com/2007/02/yahoo-pipes-tutorials.html

Here is the URL which can be used to create localised versions of YouTunes:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZSearch.woa/wa/MRSS/rssGenerator

This enabled me to do the same thing for the UK top 40!

Thanks very much!

> PS: Here's how the RSS feed for this pipe looks in FeedDemon (it would look a
> lot better if I could figure out how to insert Media RSS thumbnails into the
> feed).

I couldn't figure out it also. Yahoo! Pipe seems to be stripping all media-rss elements...

I wrote about it a while back:
www.abdulqabiz.com/blog/archives/syndication/yahoo_pipes_screws_t.php

Please let me know, if figure it out. I have sent feedback/request to Yahoo guys several times, have not heard back..

-abdul

I've been playing around with this too. I've found YouTube tag search to be quite good at producing RSS, but had much better luck with Google Video.

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