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Why Pipedream?

by ctrlaltdylan on 1/10/22, 7:25 PM with 6 comments

• by theschmed on 1/12/22, 5:02 AM

  I, too, am excited about Pipedream.

  I think it needs more no-code support for some of the fundamental abstractions needed for scripting, especially ETL:

  - Branching

  - Looping

  For example: Recently, I built an integration from ForwardEmail to Airtable using Pipedream and realized I needed a secondary nightly automation to clean up the records so the Airtable base didn’t exceed my limits. Now, Pipedream happily executes a step that returns an array of Airtable records. Problem is, as far as I can tell, Pipedream has no native concept of “loop through every entry in the array”, so I had to hop into Javascript code to create a for loop.

• by dhc02 on 1/11/22, 8:18 AM

  Yahoo Pipes is back!

• by layer8 on 1/11/22, 1:23 AM

  I was expecting an article about the etymology.

• by atian on 1/12/22, 3:55 PM

  Too expensive.