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searchFeedr Pipes

A quickie post from a 5 minute hack - a generalisation of the deliSearch pipe so that it will take any feed and search the sites listed in the feed (a searchfeedr style search :-)

Here it is: searchfeedr Pipe.
This pipe will search over all the sites that are listed in the supplied feed.

Other searchfeedr pipes include:

• the cloned deliSearch Pipe (blogged here) that searches the sites listed in a delicious feed when supplied with a delicious username/tag pair;


• the PageLinks search pipe, that will scrape the links from a page with a particular URL and will limit the search to just those sites.


• search sites that link to a domain, given its URL;


• search sites that are linked to from a domain, given its URL. The linkto and linkfrom domain searches are via Live.com search;

There's also this handy OPML searchfeedr style pipe from Chris that takes an OPML URL and passes the OPML feed through an OPML2RSS converter, then limits the search to sites contained in the resulting feed.

The searchfeedr search engine at searchfeedr.com is currently cobbled together out of scrappy bits of code, but I'm hoping to rebuild it using Pipework. Here are more than a few posts on searchfeedr if you want to see how it evolved.

Posted by ajh59 at March 15, 2007 10:44 AM