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Here’s a Pipe Cleaner script to convert this text list of Science Journals and converts it an OPML subscription list (here)

import module:api_csv.CSV;

CSV uri:'http://www.tictocs.ac.uk/text.php' delimeter:'\t';

items := map value:$items map:{
    "title" : "{{ C1 }}",
    "links" : {
        "href" : "{{ C2 }}",
        "type" : "text/xml",
        "rel" : "alternate",
    }
};

I decided not to use the “header name” feature of the CSV command because I had to remap anyway to create the links object. This has to be run with the following command (or from the web UI):

pc --format opml science-journals

Of course, this is a little unwieldy in size so maybe you only want journals with “Astrophysics” in their title:

import module:api_csv.CSV;

CSV uri:'http://www.tictocs.ac.uk/text.php' delimeter:'\t';

items := map value:$items map:{
    "title" : "{{ C1 }}",
    "links" : {
        "href" : "{{ C2 }}",
        "type" : "text/xml",
        "rel" : "alternate",
    }
};

items := search value:$items for:"Astrophysics";

Cool, eh? Not only this, this can be run entirely from the Web Interface with selectable strings so (theoretically) a Pipe Cleaner user would have an API to this data.