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Can I set an IFTTT recipe to only run at a specific time?
There is a way to do it, however it can be a bit complicated and requires a unix web host with php 5, so be warned.
Step 1
The first thing you have to do is add the maker channel. You do this the ...
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How to programmatically create/download Google Takeout archive?
Currently (April 2021), https://takeout.google.com/ has options to either perform a one-time export or to schedule exports every 2 months for a year (6 archives).
The archive can be delivered as a ...
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Trello/Zapier: Move card to list automatically on due date
Using the Trello API, I created a bot that can do exactly what you want (and a lot more). It's been running for a while with very satisfied users (see this reddit thread).
To use it, you invite user "...
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Automatically post to Instagram from Twitter / Facebook / Tumblr post?
Unfortunately, the Instagram API does not allow for posting to Instagram. It can only be used to get information from Instagram. That's why IFTTT and Zapier aren't going to be able to help you here.
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Any way to send Gmail auto-response at certain times every week?
The script in user79865's answer is really great! I did notice, however, that when I sent a test message outside of my office hours, I kept replying to myself every 5 minutes until it became my office ...
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Export CSV from a Google Spreadsheet page from command-line
Doing it from bash is very straightforward. All you need to do is run:
curl -s -d /dev/null https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/DOCUMENT_ID/export?exportFormat=csv > mydocument.csv
dos2unix ...
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Is there any way to "set yourself to away" in Slack automatically?
IFTTT works great, but its somewhat limited in its functionality towards Slack.
If you want to automatically change your Slack presence you need to code your own Slack app and use the API. You can ...
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How to Automatic Reply to Sender if email contains certain words?
Using a combination of Filters and Templates (they used to be called Canned responses) you can achieve what you asked for.
Please follow these steps:
Go to Settings > Advanced
Enable Templates
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How to translate images with Google Translate in bulk?
It's not possible via https://translate.google.com/. Furthermore, the Cloud Translation API doesn't seem to take images as input. However you could try to stich images together into 1 image:
How can ...
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How do I auto-reply to text messages received through Google Voice?
EDIT 2022: This method works, but please use it at your own risk. I had this auto-reply feature running successfully for close to a year. Today I logged in to Google Voice to find my account had been ...
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Having trouble getting rating sheet to update as games are entered
If you're interested in use (more than in development), you should give a try to rankade, our ranking system. It's free to use and it's designed to manage rankings (and stats, and more) for small or ...
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How can one auto create pre-filled URLs with registered addresses from a roster
Short answer
Yes, it's possible to automate the workflow but with slight changes. This answer assumes that the OP is using a consumer account instead of a Google Apps for Work of Google Apps for ...
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Any way to send Gmail Out of Office/Auto-reply at the same times every week?
Here is my answer to my own question.
function autoReply() {
var interval = 5; // if the script runs every 5 minutes; change otherwise
var wkend = [6,0]; // 1=Mo, 2=Tu, 3=We, 4=Th, 5=...
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Automatic Facebook post from Twitter list
Have you tried If-This-Then-That? You can connect services such as Twitter and Facebook together and then add logic to complete and automate the process. As an example, every time I post a new blog ...
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Automation Google Presentations
At this time it's not possible. It's worth to said that on May 18, 2016 Google announced that the Google Slides API will be launched in the comming months.
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How to make custom auto-replies in Skype for specific group?
Since Skype does not have such functionality built-in IMO your Q may be too broad to be suitable for WA.
From Carola Clavo Sep 27, 2016:
Skype doesn't have an auto-reply feature via chat, but it ...
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Set an expiration date for e-mails (auto delete after date)
You can make a Google script to delete old emails with certain labels at script.google.com, like so:
function twenty_day_emails() {
var label = GmailApp.getUserLabelByName("Twenty Days");
if(...
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Search prices for a list of items
not possible on https://geizhals.de/
but you can make a custom spreadsheet which will track down prices for you. something like: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/
unfortunately, not all items ...
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Does Google Drive 'Contributor' Permission allow malicious users to permanently delete file contents?
After having to talked to Google support, and run my own tests - Yes, anybody can permanently and unrecoverably delete any and all information they have write access to in Google Drive in a matter of ...
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How do I download all photos in bulk from Facebook
You can request to download all your Facebook information.
You can find this on Settings > Your Facebook Information > Download Your Information.
Deselect all and select Photos and Videos.
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Is there a way to automate texting based on a group a contact is added to in Google Contacts
If you have an Android phone, you should be able to get something done with If This Then That.
Start with the Google Contacts channel and the New contact added to group trigger.
For your action, you'...
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Automatically send email with PDF of sheets weekly
Yes, it's possible by using a Google Sheets add-ons and Google Apps Script (GAS). Please checkout the help article Use add-ons & Apps Script to learn the basics.
If you decide to use GAS, you ...
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Is it possible to create a trigger on a delay using IFTTT?
No, not in the way you are looking to do it. While there's a Date & Time channel, with triggers of "every hour", "every day at", "every week on the day", "every month on", "every year on", you'd ...
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How do I use Gmail's Vacation Responder or Canned Responses feature to respond to the From instead of the Return-Path address?
I'm afraid there's no way to do this with just Gmail.
I suppose one could craft up a custom tool using Google Apps Script, but Gmail alone doesn't give you that kind of control.
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Can you automate placing emails in folders in Office 365's Outlook?
From the support page which explains the rules of the Inbox for the Outlook Web App:
Create Inbox rules in Outlook Web App to automatically perform specific actions on messages as they arrive, based ...
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Can you automate placing emails in folders in Office 365's Outlook?
An alternative is to use a desktop application e.g. "Thunderbird" to aggregate all your accounts into one client then use "message filters" to define rules.
Doing it this way you can filter all mail ...
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