Brief educational program on IFTTT + announcement of our new heading

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

We are starting a new daily column with useful IFTTT recipes, but for now we want to remind you of the basic rules of this service.

On the pages of this blog, we are constantly getting acquainted with the best services that help you perform many useful tasks. All of them work approximately according to the same scheme, which can be expressed by the words "press the button - you will get the result", that is, they require direct interaction with the user. However, there is a way to teach services to work on their own. You probably already guessed that this is the IFTTT project.

IFTTT is a special service that allows you to tie together a wide variety of web applications and make them seamlessly perform the actions you want. The very idea of such an Internet automation seems to us so promising, and the examples of the use of IFTTT are so useful that from this week we decided to start a new blog section called IFTTT Recipe of the Day … But first, we want to remind you of the basic principles of this service.

The basic principle of IFTTT operation is encrypted in its name.

That is, if an event (Trigger) occurs in one place, then the action we have set (Action) takes place in another. In this case, the word "place" usually means one of the Internet services, although not only. These services, in IFTTT terminology, are called Channels. Moreover, each channel has its own, unique to it, a set of triggers and actions.

Since the channels are made for receiving and transmitting various data, you need to activate each of them, that is, give the IFTTT service the right to operate with your data in various services. This is done very simply, and usually consists in entering your credentials.

The combination of a trigger and an action from the channels you have activated is called a Recipes and this is, in fact, exactly what we need IFTTT for. You can create recipes yourself, or you can use the ones made by other users of the service, in whole or by editing some of the parameters for yourself. Recipes are distributed in the form of such a visual picture:

For example, the recipe shown in the picture allows you to receive a weather forecast to your email inbox every morning. You can try it at this link and, at the same time, in practice, understand the basic principles of IFTTT.

Well, we, in turn, will try not to let you get bored and will supply you with the most useful examples of using this wonderful service in our new section. IFTTT Recipe of the Day.