Plug Your Yahoo Pipe into FeedBurner
Yesterday I told you how to create a mega ego feed using Yahoo! Pipes. As I told you then, the RSS feed that it spits out is really ugly. Don’t you wish you could make it something you could at least remember or make easier to type out? Thanks to FeedBurner you can.
Step #1 - Get That Ugly Pipe RSS Feed Address
First thing you need to do is get the RSS feed for your pipe you created. You can do that by going to the Yahoo! Pipes Web site, click “my pipes”, click on the name of your pipe, and then clicking on “Run this Pipe”. From there click on “Subscribe” and select the RSS output option (Get as RSS).
If you need an easier method, or you missed a click in there, take this URL and replace “yourpipeid” with the random spew of letters and numbers Yahoo gives you to identify your pipe.
Make sure you have that copied to your clipboard (in Windows higlight it all, right-click and select copy) so you can paste it in our next step.
Step #2 - Plug the Ugly Feed Address Into FeedBurner
Now that you have your ugly RSS feed in hand, point your browser towards FeedBurner.com. Paste your ugly RSS feed into the text box on FeedBurner’s Web site and click on the “Next” button. From there you will walk through the steps of creating a FeedBurner feed to replace your hideous pipe feed.
What does the final result look like? Well I created an ego feed of my own via Yahoo! Pipes, plugged it into FeedBurner and ended up with the Mega Mitch Feed.
Now from there, you can use FeedBurner to customize the look and feel of your feed and add all kinds of neat functionality to it.
