| Using Yahoo Pipes For Extracting Interest Rate Information From RSS Feeds July 18, 2007 I. Introduction. This article presents information on a Yahoo Pipes product designed to pull from RSS feeds, containing information on interest rates, those feed postings containing the user’s keyword search terms. II. Details. Using Yahoo Pipes technology, 9 RSS feeds are set up to run down one Yahoo Pipe. This Yahoo Pipe product allows you to enter a search term (or terms) and to “snatch” postings running in the Yahoo Pipe that contains your search term (or terms). RSS feeds were found by doing a search on two major search engines. The 9 RSS feeds used in this Yahoo Pipes product were selected because of the status and reputation of the source of the RSS feeds and because of the likelihood the feeds contain relevant and useful information on interest rates. The 9 RSS feeds used in this Yahoo Pipes product are: a feed from RXstreeet.com a feed from the Federal Reserve Board two feeds from bankrate.com a feed from the New Zealand Herald a feed from the New York Times a feed from the Wharton School of Finance two feed from IBTimes.com (International Business Times) the Google News business feed the Yahoo News business feed Click here, http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=_MP3LUM13BGlhd77Bx2yXQ, (recommend right click to open in new window) to pull up this Yahoo Pipes product and to use it to “snatch” interest rate-related information from the Yahoo Pipe running the 9 RSS feeds. For example, type in and run “interest rate”, and those postings in the RSS feeds that run past the entry point, and contain the term "interest rate", will be delivered to the computer screen. III. Purpose of This Yahoo Pipes Product. This Yahoo Pipe product was developed to assist those making decisions when interest rate information is important to the decisions. Because of such things as the dynamic, changing nature of interest rates, the many kinds of interest rates, and the many dynamic factors that influence interest rates, RSS feeds lend themselves to reporting on interest rates. Using this Yahoo Pipes product takes advantage of being able to use several feeds, simultaneously, as a source of dynamic interest rate information. Also, the product allows the user to specify what the user is interested in. Hopefully, this product will be a useful, unique source of information. The Yahoo Pipes product described above is currently being used on the Management Accounting Information Center (MAIC)’s content page: Business Debt, Bonds, and Financing. You can go to this page by clicking “Links, RSS Feeds, and Ads” on the MAIC’s homepage. Then, click “Business debt, bonds, and financing”, under “Cash, Costs, and Assets” and then under “Banks and Banking”. Click here to return to the Management Accounting Information Center's homepage. Click here to send an email to the author to comment on this article. |
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