I miss Yahoo Pipes so much. And YQL. In 2009 I implemented an effectively cross-domain XHR (ajax) plugin on top of jQuery so I could grab random webpages on the client-side and query them via CSS selectors (converted to XPath). YQL would give me JSONP back so it all felt quite magical. Ah the old days...
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Try out Node-RED[0] it provides all the same functionality of Ypipes plus much more. And the best is, it uses jQuery for the Ui!
It's pitched as being for Iot but it's incredibly flexible that you can do anything with it.
If you want to get a taste of the Node-RED interface, no server provided so flow execution is not possible,then checkout https://deadred.flowhub.org
Alternatively, check out the source code at https://github.com/gorenje/cdn.flowhub.org and run it locally or somewhere else.
There are SaaS offerings for Node-RED or you can install it yourself but there isn't a one-click-Node-RED experience but https://deadred.flowhub.org provides that by being a serverless, static frontend-only version.
Yes pipes could be used as a CORS proxy, I built a full Spotify like app client side with jquery at the time, searching/streaming mp3s at radioblogclub and VK.com and fetching metadata/similar recommendations from last.fm etc...
Ah man, the open web we were promised. I miss these days of mashing up multiple services and just the general free for all. Can't do anything without an API key these days.
I too share dreams of that open web and want to re-create it. The first JS book I saw was the classic DHTML book with an attractive cover (can't find it now) in 2002 at Kinokuniya in Sydney. Good times.
i'm building a dev API on top of https://github.com/BrowserBox/BrowserBox that should provide the same functionality as a CORS-proxy / unrestricted iframe to be able to embed and interact with content across origins.
Ha, I bet we're similar age. I haven't heard the term DHTML in so long. Hows AJAX holding up these days? Then long polling aka Comet? Thankfully we've always embraced puns in tech.
Haha! :) Yes indeed. As they say, life begins at... :) hahaha. The old AJAX, DHTML and Comet. I never thought of them as puns, but that's clever! I'm a fan of the old MJPEG, SSE and marquee tag. Hahaha :)
Turns running free services is expensive with often little reward. And since essentially the only way to do micropayments currently is with ads, any platform that can't effectively deliver ads essential can't survive. Until users are willing to pay for web services, and provided an easy way to do so, there are a lot of cool things that will remain unsustainable.
You're the one bringing money into this.
People....expected servers to run for free?
Like, smart people?
I mean, yes?
Not everything has a profit motive behind it. We have this entire concept called charities and philanthropy that also show cases how people will spend their own money to accomplish goals or viewpoints.
You've never hosted a fan site or a squad or guild site for a game or movie? Or ran a discussion forum? Or hosted an irc server for a community.
Not once did I expect payment for any of those.
Yes pipes could be used as a CORS proxy, I built a full Spotify like app client side with jquery at the time, searching/streaming mp3s at radioblogclub and VK.com and fetching metadata/similar recommendations from last.fm etc...