Why Pipedream?

39 points by ctrlaltdylan 4 years ago | 6 comments

theschmed 4 years ago |

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.

ctrlaltdylan 4 years ago | |

Yup it's something that's been on the backlog for a bit and we're trying to solve for.

Here's the issue if you'd like to follow: https://github.com/PipedreamHQ/pipedream/issues/193

It is possible to make a custom source for ForwardEmail, and then emit 1 action per row, but that requires writing code outside of the GUI.

Definitely hear you on this pain and we're working on it.

dhc02 4 years ago |

Yahoo Pipes is back!

layer8 4 years ago |

I was expecting an article about the etymology.

azinman2 4 years ago | |

I was expecting the old video game.

atian 4 years ago |

Too expensive.