February 19, 2007

Automatically Generated Grazr UI for Yahoo Search Pipes

Following a brief email chat with Grazr's Adam [original chunk of post got deleted during maintenance:-(]

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Here's a technique for generating a Grazr UI to a yahoo search pipe that accepts a single user text input.

Foe example, the following was generated automatically by posting a Yahoo pipes RSS URL into the Grazr UI generator:
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[For some reason, when you try to create the embed code from the actual widget, the Create a Grazr page loses the escaping on the URL in the embedding code, which breaks the widget. 21/2/07:FIXED (thanks, Mike)]

If I get a chance, I'll see if I can knock up a bookmarklet/GM script to automatically add a 'Grazr UI for this Pipe' link to appropriate Pipe run pages...

...or maybe the Pipes team will reveal their UI solution? (I wonder, are there any generic/easily customisable widgets out there that do this already?)

You can find the Grazr interface generator here.

Posted by ajh59 at February 19, 2007 10:52 PM
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