Aug
28th
Thu
28th
Fixed Yelp feeds - the magic of Yahoo Pipes
As noted a couple months ago, the Local Signal aggregator was being blocked by Yelp. I don’t blame them, they are within their rights to do so, even if I didn’t think it was in their best interest. On the plus side, they were responsive and presented a solution which included moving to a dedicated IP and signing some contract. Well, this is a hobby project for now and I didn’t see the need to do either of those, to just consume RSS feeds.
So, I looked into other workarounds, as I feel that since Yelp is the market leader, it’s important to get those reviews aggregated. I ended up using Yahoo Pipes, a wonderful mashup tool, to use as a feed proxy. Net result, Yelp feeds are now back on the each city’s “Places” tab. Enjoy.
