{"id":195,"date":"2007-02-10T09:53:11","date_gmt":"2007-02-10T14:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/?p=195"},"modified":"2007-02-10T09:53:11","modified_gmt":"2007-02-10T14:53:11","slug":"yahoo-pipes-make-it-work-at-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/archives\/195\/yahoo-pipes-make-it-work-at-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Yahoo! Pipes: Make it work at all?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A prize to anyone who can make a <a href=\"http:\/\/crschmidt.net\/tmp\/atom\">simple Atom entry<\/a> or a <a href=\"http:\/\/crschmidt.net\/tmp\/rss2\">simple RSS entry<\/a> get geocoded by the Yahoo! Pipes Location Extractor. I&#8217;ve spent the last 30 minutes on it, and failed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pipes.yahoo.com\/pipes\/4hh24hW52xGbgSr2rscPhQ\">Non-working pipe<\/a> is my attempt. GeoRSS works, but location extraction doesn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Location Extractor seems to work against the HTML pages referenced by the feed, not the content in the feed.<\/li>\n<li>Minor changes to the HTML page seem to break the parsing &#8212; it seems to be very targeted towards Craigslist postings.\u00a0 A page with <a href=\"http:\/\/crschmidt.net\/tmp\/194-2.html\">my address, but a different map link<\/a> seems to extract the Sebastapool address, while a page with <a href=\"http:\/\/crschmidt.net\/tmp\/194.html\">just a map link<\/a> doesn&#8217;t seem to extract at all.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I guess I don&#8217;t need to sell my MetaCarta stock yet&#8230; unless I&#8217;m way off, this shows that MetaCarta is significantly ahead of the game for extracting locations from unstructured text. Not that this is a surprise to me \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A prize to anyone who can make a simple Atom entry or a simple RSS entry get geocoded by the Yahoo! Pipes Location Extractor. I&#8217;ve spent the last 30 minutes on it, and failed. Non-working pipe is my attempt. GeoRSS works, but location extraction doesn&#8217;t. Update: Location Extractor seems to work against the HTML pages [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-locality-and-space","category-pipes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}