If This Then That (Ifttt) is a web application that connects the APIs of multiple popular web applications to allow actions to be taken on a destination site when an event occurs on a source site.

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How do I get the IFTTT GTalk Channel to work with a Google Apps account?

I am trying to add the Google Talk channel to my IFTTT account, and no matter what I do, I cannot get a PIN sent to me in an instant message. I have followed the instructions for enabling chat ...
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Format date ingredient in IFTTT channel

I'm trying to create a recipe similar to this one where I record all of my Foursquare check-ins on a particular day to a single note for that day in Evernote. Unfortunately, the {{CheckinDate}} ...
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automatically get links my friends post to Facebook into Instapaper?

I usually use IFTTT for this kind of thing, but it doesn't have the right Facebook triggers: IFTTT has a "new link post by you"; what I want is a "new link post by your friend" trigger. Does anyone ...
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How to retrieve tags from an Instagram photo?

I use IFTTT to put my liked Instagram photos into my Tumblr feed using this recipe. I would like to use the tags from the Instagram photo as tags for the Tumblr post, but the hashtags from the photo ...
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Using IFTTT to trigger email notification to group of recipients

Can I set up IFTTT to send notification emails to a google-contact group whenever an article is posted to a blogger blog (private)?
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If This Then That (ifttt) Preserve Whitespace RSS Feed

Can anyone help me out with a method to preserve white space/line breaks in an RSS-feed-to-email ifttt task? I have tried using xml:space="preserve", <![CDATA[ <br> ]]> and just plain ...
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IFTTT… sometimes forgets to Trigger

I'm testing RSS to Facebook. I made 3 different recipe, to see how they appear on a Facebook page. During one day, I saw that when I upgraded my RSS (sometimes), one or more of the 3 recipes didn't ...
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Add following people's links

Is it possible to create a rule with if-this-then-that for a user that I follow with delicious so I can add his links to my Pocket? The user isn't mine.
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Create a Twitter list out of all the followers of another person's Twitter account

The first idea was to use ifttt.com, but ifttt.com only allows notifications for new followers for your own account. Is there another service, that would notify me (by sending an email), when the ...
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How long is the delay between ifttt trigger and posting action?

How long does it take for ifttt to notice that a trigger has occurred and for ifttt to fire off the event? The ifttt website is absent of any documentation ....
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Using IFTTT to scrape a site - Court Foms

I'm wondering if there's a way to watch a website for changes, even if the site doesn't have a web feed. Specifically, I'd like to watch various state's court form websites for updated forms. ...
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An If-This-Than-That like service fire an HTTP requres triggered by Github Gists

I'm trying to fire a webhook(HTTP request) from Zapier(An If This Then That like service) when a new Github gist is posted, ie have a new gist as the trigger. Zapier has GitHub integration, and ...
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Working example of IFTTT recipe with RSS capability [closed]

Could any IFTTT users share working examples of their recipes involving RSS feeds, or critique my recipe? I signed up today and created a basic script to push NYTimes articles to a Dropbox folder, but ...
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How to monitor & highlight changes in a specific part of a webpage?

I am looking for a web service (if not a script which I could run through cron) to monitor a specific part of a webpage (which I could filter with XPath or something similar) and output the ...
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How to delete IFTTT account?

How can I permanently delete my account at IFTTT ? I could not find any help on the site, nor any information on the internet.
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IFTTT: Can you specify a delay for an action?

I've a specific use case, where once an If-this-then-that trigger happens, I want an action to occur, but I do not want that action to happen for at least 30 minutes. When a WeMo switch is switched ...
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IFTTT posting multiple times

I recently connected Instagram to my WordPress blog. Today I noticed that pictures I like on Instagram are being posted 4 times on my blog. Has anybody encountered this error? Everything was working ...
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Does Facebook block ifttt backup recipes?

I've started using this ifttt recipe to automatically backup all Facebook status updates / posts to Evernote (so I can finally make them searchable). However, it doesn't seem to do anything - no ...
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IFTTT: Starred GMail to Evernote is Never Triggered

I've created a task based on this recipe but the it just sits at 'Never Triggered'. Am I doing something wrong? I've tried re-activating it; leaving it for a few days; starring random emails, but ...
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How to post to WordPress custom post type from ifttt.com

I recently discovered ifttt.com and have been working on creating a few ifttt tasks for my Kansas City Royals website. I am in the process of adding the ability for fans to make quick posts, such as ...
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Can I create multiple e-mail channels in If This Then That?

I've just been sent a link to If This Then That and it looks like it might be very useful. You have various "channels" for the "this" and "that" actions, one of them being e-mail. So you can set up a ...
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How to preserve newlines in GMail mails when posting them via ifttt on Facebook wall?

I'm trying to post specific emails I get directly on a Facebook wall via ifttt (if-this-then-that). The problem is, my newlines (or carriage returns) get destroyed or deleted. The text in the email ...
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How to make ifttt posts to Facebook look like the manually added?

I'm trying to post blog updates to a Facebook fan page and my ifttt.com task is set up like this: But the result is not the same as manually adding a link from Facebook itself. I've create a ...
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An ifttt recipe to post every link I post to a sub-reddit into a Quora Board?

Does anyone know how to use ifttt.com in order to take every post on a specific sub-reddit (not comments, just "top level" posts), and import them into a specific Quora Board?
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How can I create a task to fetch a page from a link in a tweet?

For example, if the tweet is The pros and cons of cloud hosting t.co/R1S9rcXW I want ifttt to create a new note in Evernote with body as the page linked by the URL: t.co/R1S9rcXW, and NOT the ...
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How to use ifttt to post Google+ updates to Facebook?

I found this recipe, but it doesn't work. I put in either https://plus.google.com/103156295300828440975 or http://plu.sr/feed.php?plusr=103156295300828440975, but I keep getting an error Trigger ...
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Can I trust ifttt with my data? [closed]

There are some ifttt reciepes that require a lot of trust. If its raining tommorow, send me an email! requires access to all your Gmail content. Keeping all the images you upload to FB photos in one ...
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What is a straightforward way to send a signal to another app via IFTTT?

I've been doing some experimentation with If This Then That service. This service is a web application that allows you to concoct "recipes" between different "channels," e.g., send all my Tweets from ...
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Webpage monitoring in ifttt? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Webapp to check a web page for given text and send an email when detected Is there any way to set up a trigger in http://ifttt.com which monitors a webpage for a change ...