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Open Source at IFTTT
- reilly3000 11y agoI am in love with IFTTT's Do apps. The UX is purely phenomenon and has become part of my daily life. I hope they keep up these types of projects!
- SmallBets 11y agoI have been meaning to dive in. What are some recipes/use cases that worked out best for you?
- reilly3000 11y agoMaking an Evernote note is great with do. I don't have to launch the app and risk switching context. Same with Todoist, Salesforce chatter, and more. The idea of one way UX (not just react-style unidirectional dataflow) where the user has a view for just data entry or retrieval is a powerful one.
- christiangenco 11y agoI use it to email notes to myself. This recipe is one of the top killer features of my Apple Watch, as it means I always have a GTD input device available within about ten seconds.
- pistoriusp 11y agoI really wish I had the ability to: 1. Call out any remote API. 2. Schedule a task to run at a certain time of day. Basically, I want cron with workflow and recipes.
- conickal 11y agoHave you seen the Maker channel? https://ifttt.com/maker https://ifttt.com/maker That combined with the Date & Time channel would probably do a lot of what you want.
- bduerst 11y agoHow does this handle authenticated requests? For example, does it store OAuth tokens and refresh on your behalf?
- jheising 11y agoThe Maker Channel Action doesn't support authenticated requests, at least anything beyond something you could send in the URL or body of the message. We do this to prevent people from using it to spoof requests to public authenticated services that might view such behavior as slightly "shady". The Maker Channel is really meant for prototyping and experimenting and so we've limited the capabilities to keep the uses in that realm. Hope that helps!
- xg15 11y agoThat's somewhat of a bummer, as it also forces all legitimate users to leave their endpoints acessible for everyone who knows the URL. Have you thought about at least adding support for authentication where the credentials are generated by IFTTT? (Similar to the "secret" that you use for the trigger) This would allow makers to protect their endpoints while still disallowing spoofed requests.
- bduerst 11y agoWhy not make it a paid service then? I'd pay a couple dollars a month to have this ability, and you'd raise the bottom line for spammers.
- foo123456 11y agoBasically, you want Azure Logic Apps https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/documentation/articles/app-service-logic-what-are-logic-apps/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/documentation/articles/app...
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- bananaoomarang 11y agoIt is currently possible to use IFTTT's maker channel with https://webtask.io/ https://webtask.io/. We also have a 'cron' feature on the cli which I think does what you're looking for: https://www.npmjs.com/package/wt-cli https://www.npmjs.com/package/wt-cli Disclaimer: currently works at Auth0
- _Marak_ 11y agoMy service @ http://hook.io http://hook.io does this. We also have cron support: http://hook.io/cron http://hook.io/cron It's also entirely open-source http://github.com/bigcompany/hook.io http://github.com/bigcompany/hook.io
- chipgap98 11y agoI want their Channel Platform to come out so badly. Being able to hook any service into IFTTT would be incredibly powerful/useful
- williamjackson 11y agoIf you haven't looked recently, they now have incoming and outgoing web requests: https://ifttt.com/maker https://ifttt.com/maker
- nosefrog 11y agoLaura, you rock!
- nettofarah 11y ago+100!
- lauraskelton 11y agoThanks! Super excited to make this public.
- charliepark 11y agoGetting to work alongside Laura is one of the highlights of being at IFTTT.
- masonpelt 11y agoHell YEAH!!!
- mateo411 11y agojot should be jottt. Keep up the good work!
- nthnclrk 11y ago+1
- hung 11y agoI hadn't heard of Jot before. Looks really interesting and useful for a bunch of applications.
- josteink 11y agoTo me, that looks around 99% Mac/Apple-centric, and that puts my interest firmly at zero. Touché that their open-source efforts can't actually be used on true open-source systems like Linux. I like IFTTT, but this was massively underwhelming.