Track New Threads By Any User On The Forum

Tips & Tricks
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Just created this pipe in Yahoo pipes… thought some of you may find it useful for stalking your favorite forum posters:

Replace “taktik” with any forum username:

http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?Username=taktik&_id=ee092266aee56182b5696f249bd213dd&_render=rss
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Doesn’t seem to work for me. From the example link you provided, all I get is this:

<?xml version="1.0"?>  
<rss version="2.0" xmlns:geo="http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns:yt="http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007"><br>
   <channel><br>
      <title>Renoise Forum - Posts from a user</title>
<br>
      <description>Grabs all the new threads started by any given username</description><br>
      <link>http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=ee092266aee56182b5696f249bd213dd<br>
      <pubdate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 20:08:11 +0000</pubdate><br>
      <generator>http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/</generator><br>
<br>
   </channel><br>
</rss>  
<!-- fe2.pipes.ch1.yahoo.com uncompressed/chunked Mon Apr 26 20:08:11 GMT 2010 -->

Edit: This should work as a regular RSS feed right? I don’t need to put that link into a certain web app in Yahoo or anything like that?

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Tis a regular RSS feed indeed. It works for Conner_BW… but tbh I haven’t tested it for anyone else. It’s based off the “View New Content” feed above, so if that feed doesn’t update realtime, neither will this one. Also, threads that are even remotely stale probably won’t show up.

It’s showing this thread now when I search for my own new threads: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?Username=byte-smasher&_id=ee092266aee56182b5696f249bd213dd&_render=rss

… taktik hasn’t posted a new thread that recently apparently :P

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Ah, ok. You just didn’t make that clear in your first post, so I was expecting it to maybe show the last X number of threads/posts by the user, regardless.

Not sure if there are any specific users I would like to follow this actively, but it’s an interesting idea anyway! There’s definitely a lot of power in using feeds to stay on top of the content you’re interested in, but I have not personally made the switch to any kind of central place to manage everything.

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Neither have I, but I’ve started a few Facebook pages with quite a lot of content aggregating. It’s interesting to see content from a whole bunch of sources flowing in… and seeing what sources consistently produces good quality stuff. I do plan on creating a feed containing all my favorite content.

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What’s a Yahoo pipe?

What I normally use is , since each user has a profile and on that profile is a button that says “view posts”, I click it.

Here’s Byte’s, for example:

http://www.renoise.com/board/index.php?app=core&module=search&do=user_posts&mid=3189

Not good enough?

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Yahoo pipes is a service that allows you to custom format RSS feeds … you can filter and merge feeds… and do a variety of other things. You can even translate text automatically with it. It’s pretty cool :)