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Re: RSS to Online Database     15-Apr-08 10:42 pm    
The key point to keep in mind is that Pipes sucks - it doesn't blow. :-)

You can't force its output into another web service. You can have another service suck from Pipes, which is why I suggested DabbleDB. Set up a DabbleDB (online database) and you will be able to use its import feature to import a feed from a Pipe. It is run periodically (twice a day, IIRC).

Other idea (getting a bit Rube Goldberg at this point):

Dapper (dapper.net) has an email feature whereby it will send you a notification email when a nominated RSS feed changes. Using this, you could build up a history of a feed. To do the storage part, try this: create a blog (using Blogger). Get the "mail2post" address (ie any content sent to that email address will automatically get posted to the blog). Monitor your target feed with Dapper. Have it send update emails to your GMail account. Use a forwarding rule in GMail to forward those Dapper emails onto your blog (where they get auto-posted). This blog is now a persistent store of the target feed, accessible via HTML or RSS for future processing.

No code, just a whole of intertwined web services.
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Close but not quite. Everything arrives in one row. For example, if I had a table of 5 records with ...
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To use RSS output your elements need to have valid element names. While "title" and "description" ar...
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I had the same requirement, and I'm using Dabble db already. You can schedule regular hourly imports...
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Re: RSS to Online Database
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Greg, Pipes doesn't store information for longer than it's in the source feed. I want the history. ...
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I'm pretty sure Pipes meets all the criteria. You could try using Google Spreadsheets or DabbleDB fo...
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Does anyone know of a simple tool that can automatically process the output from a Pipe and load it ...
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