Wednesday, October 21, 2009

My Yahoo! Pipes

Hello people, this time I'd like to announce my first yahoo pipe, which consists on showing the last earthquakes in the world directly from the usgs.gov source. The pipe shows the last 50 strongest earthquakes in the last 7 days ordered by magnitud. They are located nicely in a world map where you can have a picture of how the world is shaking now. If you click on any feed it will redirect the browser to Yahoo News! related to that feed. It also show some thumbnails of YouTube videos of the regions where they occur:

Go to My Earthquakes Pipe

You can set the number of earthquakes to look for whether you want to see more or less feeds...

Enjoy it and start building yours very quick...
For more details about how the pipe was built you can see the source code at anytime. Basically it takes CVS/text data from usgs.gov (I found this data accessible in the catalog of data.gov, there are so many more to play with) and sets the fields to build each item feed. Then, looks for yahoo news with the region affected as keyword. Simultaneously, looks for videos in YouTube (or google, now it's the same) using the location information. Finally everything is mash-up to show the data in three tabs of a Yahoo! Pipe page.

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