This post is a follow-up post for IFTTT: Automate Your Online Life & Steem Easily? please do check it out if you don't know what IFTTT is or is for.
I had previosly covered the power of IFTTT and gave examples with some real-world usage examples from my everyday life. But as you might have already discovered, the already made applets are not as personalized as you would probably want them to be, and more importantly, there are few (3, at the time writing this) Steem related applets. In this post I'll cover how to create a new applet with some Steem related use cases, so I hope you'll get inspired.
RSS Feeds
Yeah, it is 2017 and I'm writing about RSS feeds. DON'T JUDGE. Kidding, RSS feeds are essential to us to create our brand new applets as Steemit (or any other frontend for Steemit) is not a supported platform for IFTTT. But it does support lurking on RSS feeds, and luckily, our friends at streemian.com set up such feed for us!
You can see all of the RSS endpoints here. We'll use some.
Applet #1: A phone notification when someone replies to one of your posts
The procedure is quite easy and straightforward, head to IFTTT website (or app) on the My Applets panel, click on Create A New Applet.
Recipe
Trigger
Click on this and choose our service, a RSS Feed. Once you've chosen it, you are asked to choose a trigger. For this example, we would want a notification for every RSS update. Next, we have to give a feed URL, that's where Streemian's feed comes handy. The URL for the Replies for an author is https://streemian.com/rss/@your_username/replies. So put that in and you're set for the trigger.
Action
As of now, IFTTT knows when someone replies to one of our posts, let's tell it what it should do for us. Again, this is just an example of a notification - you could choose Phillips Hue and change your light's color when someone replies. Okay, let's choose a notification (You'll probably have to search it) and there's only one trigger, choose it!
Customizing the notification text
See this moustache-like syntax, that {{EntryAuthor}}? That's an ingredient there are some for RSS feeds such as the title, the time posted and more. You can see all of the ingredients if you'll click on "Add Ingredient". Add action, edit the title so it'll be readable, and you're all set!
You've succesfully created your first brand-new Steem related applet on IFTTT, you rock!
More applets ideas
- Cross post every new post you create to your choice of social networks
- Save to Evernote or Pocket each post in certain category.
- Get notified when a chosen post get to a certain sum of money.
- Order an Uber to your place when someone comments "Come on over!"
Summary
There are many possibilities for new Steem related applets, or applets in general, In my own opinion, IFTTT has more potential than your next-door Steem bots (No offense please!) And if there are any developers that are interested in helping me set up a IFTTT supported platform for Steemit (not that hard), hit me and we'll talk!