Getting started with Yahoo! Pipes.

I was overlooking any new Yahoo products as their existing other products gave me only a feeling of disgust. I heard about their new product " Yahoo! Pipes". I thought it would be another typical yahoo product. But one day, out of my own curiousity, I logged into pipes. And what I found afterward made me completely astonished. It is an amazing product. According to them:

"Pipes is a powerful composition tool to aggregate, manipulate, and mashup content from around the web."

I am going to show you a step by step introductory view of pipes. I'll give a tutorial of how images can be fetched from Flickr according to your parameters.

• Go to Yahoo! Pipes.

• Sign in with your yahoo account.

• Choose "Create a pipe".

• After the pipe editor has loaded, drag "Flickr " to the editor panel from the "Sources" category of the left pane.
• Drag "Text input" to the editor pane from the "User inputs" category.
• Edit fields of the "Text input" module as necessery: write "Search For" in the prompt field.
• Write 1 in the position field.

• Write "Sunset" in the Default field.
• Connect this "Text Input" module with the text field "image for" in the Flickr module.
• Drag "Location Input" to the editor pane from the "User inputs" category.
• Edit fields of the "Location input" module as necessery: write "Location" in the prompt field.
• Write 2 in the position field.
• Write "Bangladesh" in the Default field.
• Connect this "Location Input" module with the field "near" in the Flickr module.
• Drag "Number Input" to the editor pane from the "User inputs" category.
• Edit fields of the "Number input" module as necessery: write "Number of pics" in the prompt field.
• Write 3 in the position field.
• Write "10" in the Default field.
• Connect this "Number Input" module with the text field after the "Find" in the Flickr module.
• Finally connect the "Pipe Output" with the output connector of the "Flickr" module.