[jonathantrevor]

YQL (the Pipes sister product) is more programmer friendly, and also free. Give YQL a go if the Pipes visual UI doesn't work for you (and it has lots of yummy server side JS goodness too).

[sh1mmer]

Link: http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console

Requires Yahoo ID to use the demo console, but YQL doesn't need that when you make the web service calls.