Question

I’m trying to get data I’ve got in a MySQL table into a Yahoo Pipe to experiment with what’s possible with it. I’m happy to transmit the table over HTTP if necessary, has anybody any suggestions for a method- or is there a standard way?

Answer 1

I think you should write a web service (or a handy api) to query database. Most probably Yahoo! Pipes don’t support protocols except HTTP. Not possible unless you implement something. Here’s an idea:

1. Get query via HTTP parameters.
2. Execute on database and get results as an array of rows in PHP.
3. Put column names and rows to a XML or JSON view and send to the client.
4. I’m not sure whether you can parse XML or JSON on Yahoo Pipes however if you can mimic RSS/ATOM types it wil work.