How can I use Yahoo Pipes to omit my username from my RSS feed?

June 14, 2008 12:03 PM

How can I use Yahoo Pipes to omit my username from my RSS feed?

Currently, an item from my parsed feed reads like this:

"deerntheheadlice: had a great club sandwich today."

I would like to shorten to this:

"had a great club sandwich today."

From what I can tell, my username is not wrapped with its own tag, thus is not easy to remove. Can anyone with experience in Yahoo Pipes tell me which modules might help?

posted by deern the headlice to technology (3 comments total)

Wouldn't the string replace module work, replacing "deerntheheadlice: " with ""?
posted by zabuni at 12:26 PM on June 14

Ok, looking at it, it looks like you want to make a twitter feed of yourself without your name being in every single item.

Replace will work, but looking over the modules, you would have to loop through the items. An easier solution is to use the regex module. It works on items. You will have to use the module twice, once to get it out of the title, and once out of the description.

Here's an example I made:

http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=inVM3Uk63RGxkMZciXrL0A
posted by zabuni at 12:51 PM on June 14

You rock, zabuni, I would not have figured that one out myself. Much thanks!
posted by deern the headlice at 12:52 PM on June 14