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PipedreamHQ / pipedream

pipedream

Connect APIs, remarkably fast. Free for developers.

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Observed mentions: 2020-03-25 20:50:57 UTC to 2024-03-18 18:16:37 UTC.

0510152020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 14 mentions; 9 submissions, 5 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 1 submissions, 4 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024

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20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC1495
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC514
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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todsacerdoti·Mar 18, 2024
At Pipedream, we believe helping developers be 10x more productive is how we can have the greatest impact on the world. We have been heads down building out our workflow automation platform for developers and a key part of that effort is integrating the most popular APIs on the internet. There is a long tail of APIs we have to integrate for our 800k+ users but we've stayed focused on APIs that have large user bases, are popular with developers, and are requested by customers with business use cases. To give you a sense of how unique this scale of API integrations is, here is a list of apps with the most API integrations: - Zapier: 6000+ API integrations - Pipedream: 2000+ API integrations - Make: 1500+ API integrations - Workato: 1200+ API integrations Of course, what makes Pipedream unique is that you execute custom logic using Node.js,
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Python, Go, or Bash, so can interact with any API regardless of whether it is integrated or not. We like to say "code when you need it and no code when you don't." Integrated apps allow you to use pre-built triggers and actions, or use your authenticated account within a code step. In addition, we offer an HTTP request action which a Postman-like interface to configure HTTP requests within workflows (https://pipedream.com/docs/http#http-request-action). To request an API integration, visit our GitHub repo and create an issue (https://github.com/PipedreamHQ/pipedream) or visit our support page (https://pipedream.com/support).
In Show HN: Pipedream now has 2000+ API integrations
rubenfiszel·Jan 25, 2023
We noticed that too and thought scripts with simple main functions and their parameters could be the universal layer for integrations, so we (Windmill) built an open-source hub for it https://hub.windmill.dev Pipedream (which is probably Automatisch main competitor) also has a repo full of integrations: https://github.com/PipedreamHQ/pipedream. Their format is a bit more specific than Windmill. Hopefully, we all agree on a format and differentiate ourselves on the quality of the orchestration, flow capabilities, performance etc ...
In Show HN: Automatisch – Open source workflow automation, an alternative to Zapier
rubenfiszel·Jun 2, 2022
Pipedream is listed as an OSS alternative to Integromat ... except it is just the automation that are open-sourced: https://www.opensourcealternative.to/project/Pipedream https://github.com/PipedreamHQ/pipedream The platform itself is not even source available. I think it's a bit disingenuous in that case. At Windmill (https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill), we are actually building the OSS platform that you can self-host and that is an actual OSS alternative to ... pipedream.
In Open Source Alternative To
dylburger·Apr 7, 2022
I hear you! We're tracking this in a couple of issues: 1. We plan to publish an execution environment (as a container) that simulates the core Pipedream runtime. You could run this locally or as a container on whatever container service you'd like. 2. We get a lot of requests for a fully-self-hosted / open-source version, and we're considering how to approach that as well. Please follow the issues below, and let us know if you have any more feedback! [1] https://github.com/PipedreamHQ/pipedream/issues/1635 [2] https://github.com/PipedreamHQ/pipedream/issues/954
In Show HN: Pipedream 2.0 – AWS Lambda + Zapier alternative
todsacerdoti·Apr 7, 2022Submission

Show HN: Pipedream 2.0 – AWS Lambda + Zapier alternative

Hey HN! Pipedream is an integration and compute platform purpose-built for developers building workflows and connecting cloud services. You can author workflows without writing any code: Pipedream supports over 700 integrated applications (GitHub, Slack, etc) [1] and all connectors are open source [2]. In addition, you can write any Node.js, Python, Go, or Bash code within workflows, extending the pre-built integrations with your own custom logic. Since we launched Pipedream on HN [3], over 300k developers have used the product. Pipedream developers tell us consistently that they love the code-level control when they need it, and the built-in, no code integrations when they don't. But we’ve also heard consistent feedback that the product needed to be easier to use, support more language runtimes, and provide a native Git integration. In P
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ipedream v2, we have re-imagined the entire product and key features, including: - Multi-language support including Node, Python, Golang, and Bash - Data Stores to store and retrieve data across steps & workflows - Open source triggers and actions for 700+ applications - Improved workflow builder to test and iterate without impacting live workflows - Multiple triggers are now supported per workflow - Improved forms and testing for rapid step-by-step development We’re working on a GitHub integration now, which will let you manage workflow definitions as code. You can still use the Pipedream UI to author workflows, and use Pipedream’s pre-built integration components to build integrations, but you’ll be able to serialize those workflows to code. Think Terraform or CDK for app integrations. You can sign up for our waitlist below. [4] My cofounder @dylburger and I will be here to answer any questions. [1] Explore our integrations - https://pipedream.com/explore [2] GitHub - https://github.com/PipedreamHQ/pipedream [3] Alpha launch on HN - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21270424 [4] Sign up for early access to GitHub integration - https://pdrm.co/git
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todsacerdoti·Apr 21, 2020
Pipedream recently launched event source components [1] which enable developers to turn any API into an event stream, for free, and the first example component was RSS [2]. As an example, I’ve built an improved “Google Alerts” for Hacker News, which enables you to instantly deploy a component that will emit a real time event stream with any new stories or comments that match the supplied keyword(s). The component is RSS based [3][4]. Once you deploy this event source, you can process the data programmatically by: - building a workflow to run any Node.js code [5] - using pre-built functions [6] to send data to 100s of apps and destinations - listen for new items using SSE so you can run any code in your own app or - process items from an in batch using the REST API [7] Of course, there are other cool tools for digesting HN data including
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AlertHN, F5bot, Hckernews, HNstream, HNwatcher, Porter, HNmail and you can always use Google Alerts itself and scope the URL (https://news.ycombinator.com "Apple Watch”). While RSS and Hacker News are early examples of event sources, we are building out 100s additional apps/APIs as event sources and any user will be able to author their own. Give it a try and let us know if you have any feedback or suggested improvements! [1] https://docs.pipedream.com/event-sources/ [2] https://rss.pipedream.com [3] https://github.com/PipedreamHQ/pipedream/blob/master/compone... [4] https://edavis.github.io/hnrss/ [5] https://docs.pipedream.com/workflows/steps/code/ [6] https://docs.pipedream.com/workflows/steps/actions/ [7] https://docs.pipedream.com/api/rest/
In Show HN: I Built an Improved “Google Alerts” for Hacker News

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