Comments on: Google Docs + Yahoo Pipes = CMS

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 18:43:58 +0000

Hi Chris,
Thanks for the great post. I’m wondering if you’d mind sharing the regular expressions you used to verify the data. I’ve got some simple tests based on your workflow working, but when I start to drop real data in the spreadsheet, things start breaking. commas and quotes seem to be handled fine, but I think line feeds are causing trouble. Are there other things we need to validate against?

Thanks,
Paul

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By: John Welborn

John Welborn — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 04:42:50 +0000

A very clever hack indeed. I’m not familiar with yahoo pipes. I’ll have to check it out. Looks really cool, but admittedly a little intimidating.

Actually, you do something very similar to this, and remove some of the parts that people seem to be having trouble with by using feed.us to deliver to the client thus removing regex and pipes.

The client is obviously one concern, but the coders need some love too! Check out http://feed.us if you’re interested. We actually have an article in our blog about using google docs as a cms using the share / send to blog option, but using this article as inspiration you could run get all kinds of crazy.

Thanks again for the pointer to pipes! We’ve built some of the more basic fucntions ourselves, but I think this can save us some work on aggregating complex data feeds.

Great post!

By: Rick Stratton

Rick Stratton — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 04:15:49 +0000

That’s a very cool hack that I hadn’t even considered

Great call!

By: Martin Hemmer

Martin Hemmer — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 08:58:02 +0000

Very useful information. Thanks for this. You got a great blog .I will be interested in more similar topics.I’m very interested in CMS and all its related subjects.

By: danny

danny — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 04:41:31 +0000

Hey Chris, I know the pain of updating old projects, but I was curious if you ever got around to taking screenshots of the exact setup needed to get this working. Lately I have been getting into using wordpress for client CMS systems, but you have me intrigued with this method. -danny danny’s last blog post..Playing with Dust (In Flash)

By: tebor

tebor — Sat, 16 May 2009 00:29:47 +0000

Thanks Sean and @studionumber9

Danny: I should have added that the screenshots are not the final implementation. They’re just to represent the overall process and steps to re-create a similar application. For example, in the screenshot the Regex console isn’t filled in. Also the url’s I used for the screenshots aren’t the actual ones.

By: Danny

Danny — Fri, 15 May 2009 20:44:47 +0000

I will start off the “why isn’t it working” posts by saying, Why isn’t it working (and I am sure its my fault)!

I copied everything as closely as I could to your example, but I must be missing a small (or large) detail somewhere. I got everything copied exactly like the images except once I get to “Run Pipe” it shows the three “teas” that I entered in the spreadsheet but if I click on any of them or view the rss it says:

“Invalid Action: null”

Any ideas? I can provide more details if needed.

By: @studionumber9

@studionumber9 — Fri, 15 May 2009 17:40:39 +0000

yup. pretty fantastic t... @studionumber9’s last blog post..:: on the radar: volume 2point5 ::

By: Sean C

Sean C — Fri, 15 May 2009 17:32:34 +0000

Brilliance!