Automation is great. Anything that can be done to reduce the amount of effort needed to achieve a goal is to be welcomed with open arms. We have looked at various tools that can be used to automate tasks you might carry out on a regular basis, including using Wappwolf to automate cloud storage and using IFTTT to automate backups. Now we’ll show how IFTTT can be used in conjunction with Yahoo Pipes to create custom news feeds and alerts.
Yahoo Pipes is an often overlooked tool that can be used to bend and shape news feeds to meet your requirements. Even if there is a website you’re particularly keen on and you have taken the step of subscribing to its RSS feed, it is unlikely you’re going to be interested in every single post that is made – there may be some topics that you would like to avoid altogether.
Used on its own, Yahoo Pipes can be used to create your own custom RSS feeds. It is possible to combine multiple feeds from different sites into a single feed, and each separate feed can be filtered in a number of ways.
What this means is that it is possible to follow a site’s feed, but ensure that you only see the content you are interested in. Only interested in Android news? Set up a filter so that only Android related stories reach you. Want to know about everything but Linux? Build a pipe that filters out Linux related news.
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