Question

I am wondering whether what I want can be acheived by using Yahoo pipes (which I haven’t used before). I subscribe to many feeds using Google Reader. I mainly use a news reader for Android called Newsrob and when I see an article I am interested in, I add it to Pinboard or other bookmarking service. Unfortunately many feeds use Feedburner or other service that means that all links in the rss feeds are not the correct ones. They are redirect urls so that they can track click throughs.
Take the Lifehacker feed: http://feeds.gawker.com/lifehacker/vip
The first link is http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/vip/~3/RYy7Dk9oE2Q/stolencamerafinder-locates-your-stolen-camera-by-using-your-existing-photos
This redirects to:
http://lifehacker.com/#!5796912/stolencamerafinder-locates-your-stolen-camera-by-using-your-existing-photos
I want to bookmark the resultant link.
Is there a way of using Yahoo pipes to create a custom rss feed with the correct links? It would need to detect that the link uses a 301 redirect and replace with the correct link.

Answer 1

Here is a pipe that does exactly what you want, replacing any links that are 301 redirects with the actual link:

http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=26d9b7a2d3a81ae496fbff5f9b53171a