Combining del.icio.us and Google Reader using Yahoo! Pipes

Posted on 06 Jan 2008 by avinash

Some of you have perhaps noticed (and maybe used) the links and the RSS icons I have at the top of this page. Until yesterday, clicking on “My bookmarks” brought you to my del.icio.us page as I use del.icio.us systematically to bookmark interesting web pages as soon as I come across them.

I also use Google Reader a lot. In fact I currently have 113 subscriptions in it which basically means that I read hundreds of posts daily. Google Reader also has a bookmarking feature which I use a lot but unfortunately only adds the entry to my Shared Items (i.e. not del.icio.us)

This means that I bookmark interesting pages using two distinct services. I’ve used Yahoo! Pipes to combine the two using this pipeline:

And voilà:

My consolidated bookmarks in HTML format
An RSS feed of the above (wrapped by FeedBurner because I want to have some statistics)

Have fun!

About avinash

I am the Managing-Director of Knowledge Seven Ltd, provider of quality consultancy, support and training for open source software. I am also an amateur photographer and musician. I use a Google Nexus One Android smartphone, an Apple MacBook, Mac OS X, Linux and a lot of open source software. I am married to Christina and we have two wonderful kids, Kyan & Anya. In case you are wondering, Noulakaz means "our home" in my native language, créole.

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2 Responses to Combining del.icio.us and Google Reader using Yahoo! Pipes

Ames says:

06 Jan 2008 at 17:06

And it works !!!!! Awesome! Loved the pipes. I still remember how people were being skeptic when pipes was released. Yahoo Pipes is brilliant.
Kudos to Yahoo and to you for using it.
avinash says:

06 Jan 2008 at 17:31

Thanks.

And the sky is the limit. I’m playing around with it at the moment and it’s cool