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Pipes review

Freemium#32 of 36 in Data Transformation Tools

A visual way to combine, filter, scrape, and reshape web feeds without conventional programming.

6.1/10Editor score
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Reviewed by iTechGuides Editors · Editorial team · Updated Oct 2026

Pipes is a browser-based visual editor for fetching, combining, filtering, extracting, and reshaping web data. Users connect processing blocks on a canvas to work with RSS, Atom, JSON, XML, HTML, and plain text inputs, then construct outputs as RSS, XML, or JSON. It is aimed at individuals and small teams that need feed workflows or lightweight web-data transformations without writing a conventional program. Deployment spans the hosted service and the AGPL-licensed Pipes CE self-hosted option, giving technically capable users a local deployment path.

Its main strength is the breadth of transformation blocks for a focused use case. Pipes supports HTML scraping and content extraction, structured-data processing, regular-expression replacement, filtering, merging, deduplication, sorting, truncation, and webhook input. Public pipe sharing and forking can help users reuse existing workflows. The integration list covers Vimeo, Dailymotion, Periscope, Mixcloud, Reddit, SVT Play, Speedrun.com, and YouTube, though that ecosystem remains narrower than the core feed and transformation functionality.

Pricing scales mainly by pipe count and processing capacity. The Free plan costs $0 per month for 3 pipes with a shorter pipe timeout. Supporter costs $5 per month or $60 per year for 10 pipes and the full time limit. Regular costs $20 per month or $240 per year for 50 pipes and JavaScript Scraping Support. Pro costs $79 per month or $948 per year for 100 pipes, JavaScript scraping, faster feed updates, a longer Webhook cache, and Priority Support. Pipes suits feed-focused individual workflows; buyers needing a broader integration catalog or JavaScript scraping below the Regular tier should consider alternatives.

Pipes pros and cons

  • Where it wins
    • Visual drag-and-drop editor for building connected data-processing pipes
    • Supports RSS, Atom, JSON, XML, HTML, and plain text inputs
    • Combines, filters, deduplicates, sorts, and outputs transformed feeds
  • Where it doesn't
    • Only eight verified site-specific integrations are available
    • The Free plan limits users to 3 pipes and has a shorter timeout
    • JavaScript scraping support starts on the $20-per-month Regular plan

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