Amazon has added the ability to add third party items to wishlists, so I figured I could move back with little difficulty. One thing I quickly discovered was that I  couldn’t syndicate my list through RSS directly from Amazon. Some searching later, I found what appeared to be the answer: Ed’s Amazon RSS Wishlist. It looked to be exactly what I was looking for, except for one small problem – it didn’t work.

I had never used either Yahoo! Pipes or the Amazon Web Services API before, but this looked like a good opportunity. I cloned Ed’s pipe and began updating the calls to work with version 4.0 of Amazon’s ECommerce Service (ECS).

Working with Yahoo! Pipes turned out to be quite a bit of fun, and the Amazon API is well documented. Output from my modified pipe can be seen at the bottom of this post.

If you’d like to use my pipe to create an RSS feed for your own Amazon wishlists, you can find it here: http://pipes.yahoo.com/iamthechad/amazonrsswishlist