[SOLVED] Yahoo Pipes meets Facebook

[BandonRandon]

Hello,

 

So I've been trying to create a Lifestream http://blog.bandonrandon.com/lifestream for myself. I have found the feed url to my facebook mini feed but i feel that facebook gives away to much information for a public feed. A friend told me to use yahoo pipes http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/ which will let me modify the feeds content. Well it works great but I have a unique regex problem for someone. 

 

The feed will output data like this:

# FirstName LastName accepted your friend request.

# FirstName LastName  wrote on your Wall.

# FirstName LastName wrote on your Wall.

and so on and so fourth.

 

I would like this to read

# Someone accepted My Name's friend request.

# Someone wrote on My Name's Wall.

# Someone wrote on My Name's Wall.

 

one of the pipes operators is regex where i can replace variables. I am still very new to regex and am getting better but still need to be coached on it.

 

Thanks,

Brandon

 

[effigy]

Assuming they use PCRE:

 

<pre>
<?php
$data = <<<DATA
# FirstName LastName accepted your friend request.

# FirstName LastName  wrote on your Wall.

# FirstName LastName wrote on your Wall.
DATA;

echo preg_replace('/^(.+?)(?=accepted|wrote)/m', 'Someone ', $data);
?>
</pre>

 

You can use str_replace to exchange "your" with your name, since it should be static

[BandonRandon]

Thanks for the help, I was able to get the static field corrected but wasn't able to get the first name/ last name corrected.  Any help would be great!

[effigy]

According to the vague docs, try this:

 

replace [ ^(.+?)(?=accepted|wrote) ] with [ Someone  ]

[BandonRandon]

Thank you that worked! I agree that the pipes documentation isn't the best. It's actually a pretty cool thing though.

 

Brandon