Magento feeds filter in place

Today I’ve put some filters in place on MagentoFeeds.com. The need for filtering is simple: There are many very interesting blogs around the world that post about Magento but also post about (lots of) other topics. Not that these other topics can’t be interesting, but they’re not relevant for MagentoFeeds.com.

Since the program I use for the website (Gregarius) doesn’t have a (proper) filter option I created this Yahoo Pipe to filter the feeds. It’s really quite simple: I can now use the pipe URL http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=799db951f0e2e8199b457130dbc7abc1&_render=rss&rssurl= and put that in front of any RSS feed to filter the posts in that RSS feed. Just added this in front of all feed URLs used on MagentoFeeds.com and presto: all feeds are now filtered on the words ‘magento’ ‘ecommerce’ and ‘e-commerce’.

You can test it on your own RSS feeds if you like or you can clone the Yahoo Pipe to adapt it yourself. The above is just a very small trick that can be done with Yahoo Pipes which is a great tool for everyone that wants to manipulate feeds. Try it and if you have any suggestions for me to optimize my filter: comment this post or send me a message!

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