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by Fuzzwah 3825 days ago
The most complex thing I used pipes for was to pull in content from basically every site around the web that I have an account on and aggregate them on a blog of sorts.

The whole idea was that sites I use for things come and go. I could jump from service to service, update my pipes setup. If a site died I'd just find a replacement and move on. I always had all my content harvested and stored in my own db.

Examples;

* any youtube video I added to my favorites would be auto embedded on my blog

* posts on blogger, wordpress, etc all pull into the one place

* images fav'd on deviantart

* pages book marked using diigo

* photos saved to whatever photo site I was currently using

Here's a screenshot from a long time ago when I originally set it up (2009):

https://fuzzyslogicblog.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/a186d-pi...