Y! Pipes makes an RSS feed of your Spore creations!
I haven’t been playing with Pipes recently, mostly because I haven’t thought of anything to do with it. Fortunately with the advent of the Spore creature creator I thought it’d be nice to create an rss feed of my shared creatures. With a few moments of looking at html and a few more moments working with Pipes (barring one small snafu that sadly makes it impossible for me not to impose myself between Spore and pipes) I’ve got a basic feed going of all my spore creatures that I share up to Sporepedia.
You can see the pipe here. It’s super simple, didn’t give me the chance to use any of the new fancy modules. Mostly, because it doesn’t take much effort to turn xml into rss. Even more sadly there isn’t a ton of information that EA is giving in that little xml file, so you know, what you see is pretty much what you get. I wish that it’d would provide the upload date, that would be super nice. I’m thinking about creating a friendfeed room that we can use to add everyone’s feeds in, but dunno if anyone actually cares about Spore besides me anymore - an additional problem that FF won’t display images inline for blog feeds makes it less compelling as well.
In the meantime I used Y!’s badge creator just so you can see this bad boy in action:
Which is my most recent 10. Oh, to find your Sporepedia id it’s a little bit annoying - you have to go to your spore profile page - you’ll see a link on the right side that says “show widget source” if you click that and search through the gobbldygook you’ll see userid=#### that’s your user id. Also, that’s a widget that uses their own xml feed and is prettier than the badge one above, so that’s a good option if you just want a widget, but I wanted to make an RSS feed because you get a lot more flexibililty with that. Anyhoo, let me know what you think.
