Yahoo Pipe: Sub-Reddit Feed Filter

Popular social bookmarking site Reddit has announced a great new feature: users can create their own sub-reddit. What does this mean in English? Users and communities can create their own social bookmarking sites around specific topics: blogging, wordpress, specific programming languages, etc but still use their regular reddit account for submitting links and voting.

You can see a full list of all the new reddits here, sorted by popularity. Of particular interest to me is the new Reddit created for Ruby/Rails related posts.

Of course, it’d be nice to be able to subscribe to a filtered version of these links. I’ve created a modified version of Dave S‘s “reddit popular on delicious” Yahoo Pipe that works with Sub-reddits.

http://pipes.yahoo.com/engtech/subredditpopularondelicious

1. Click on the link
2. Enter the name of the sub-reddit you’re interested in
   • ie: ruby, see full list of all the new reddits here
3. Enter the minimum number of saves on a delicious before a link is included in the feed
4. Enter keyword inclusion/exclusion filters if you want to limit what you get
   • ie: include only rails-related posts or exclude all rails-related posts
5. Click Run
6. Click on the subscribe to RSS button

I’m using the Ruby sub-reddit as an example, but this is a great way to track links based around any topic there is a sub-reddit for. Even lolcats.

I’m looking forward to when this Reddit feature comes out of beta and it’s possible to create a few new sub-reddits like blogging, wordpress and lifehacks.

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