Glenn FleishmanWhat do you remember about Yahoo! Pipes? Did you use it? Do you miss it? (Working on a historical article.)
Jonathan Poritsky@glennf Used it. Miss it. It was how I managed social posts to my site once upon a time: https://www.candlerblog.com/2012/08/31/static-link-posts-to-tweets/
Syndicating Link Posts From a Static Blog to Twitter Without...Well, Let Me Explain
A few weeks ago I started syndicating all of the posts from the candler blog to a new Twitter account, @thecandlerblog. Since I’m off Wordpress and thus can’t use a fancy-pants plugin to achieve this, I decided to use an If This Then That (IFTTT) recipe to take my site’s RSS feed and send out a tweet on the new account. Easy! Not so fast. I ran into a bit of a problem that I figured was edge case-y enough that I didn’t need to bother you all with the nerdy details of how I fixed it.
@glennf Also used it to generate author feeds from sites like The New Yorker that were stingy with RSS.
@poritsky Honestly a reason I like Authory so much as a writer: it’s a human-run Pipes. You can feed it RSS feeds and other stuff, and they have to examine things or write new filters to parse just for your articles, podcasts, etc.