Question

I would like to remove the item.description part of a twitter feed within yahoo pipes and I haven’t figured out how to do it yet.

Obviously the filter module will remove posts with that item so I’ve been trying to use Regex. I think clearing the item.description field would work well enough. Is there a Regex expression that would replace the entire string?

Basically the goal is to make a twitter post that displays only the title and publish date. Basically, the item.description field is producing redundant information.

A copy of the pipe can be found here.

Answer 1

Ideally you would want to use an XSLT to do this – something like this:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?> <xsl:stylesheet version='1.0' xmlns:xsl='http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform'>     <xsl:template match='*'>         <xsl:copy>             <xsl:copy-of select='@*' />             <xsl:apply-templates />         </xsl:copy>     </xsl:template>     <xsl:template match='//description'>         <description/>     </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> 

But since you are using Pipes, try this regular expression:

<description>[^<]*</description>

with this:

<description/>

as a replacement string.