Re: [Plone-developers] IFTTT.com and the Plone API

[Eric B. <ebr...@gm...>]

by the way, zapier.com is similar to IFTTT and provide a developer platform
to set up your own connectors

Eric


On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Eric Bréhault <ebr...@gm...> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> IFTTT means If This Then That, it is an automation tool.
> It allows to trigger actions when an event occurs, actions and events are
> provided by a lot of well-known services (Twitter, Gmail, Github, Facebook,
> Google Calendar, etc.).
> Typical use cases are:
> - everytime I push something on github, it sends a tweet
> - every friday afternoon, it will send me a reminder "Hey, no work
> tomorrow!" on my iPhone
> - etc.
>
> An integration with Plone could allow to automatically create contents
> depending on external events, or to automatically do something when a Plone
> content is created (or changed or whatever).
>
> Might be interesting, but I am not sure we can provide our own
> implementation of a channel (I think we describe the API to IFTTT team, and
> they plug it in their system, but I am not 100% sure)
>
> Eric
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 9:40 AM, Christian Ledermann <
> chr...@gm...> wrote:
>
>> A bit more information is needed:
>> what is IFTTT (the website does not have an  about section) and what
>> would the API do?
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 9:35 PM, Daniel Bennett
>> <da...@ci...> wrote:
>> > As the Plone API gets built out, I was wondering if anyone was
>> > interested in applying for the IFTTT channel capability. Apparently
>> > WordPress has a channel which although rudimentary, seems brilliant
>> > (https://ifttt.com/wordpress). Also, it might make the need for Plone
>> > products less necessary especially in terms of integration with other
>> > web services. And it could make it more likely that new dexterity
>> > products can be integrated with the API and IFTTT.
>> >
>> > Let me know if anyone is willing to work on getting IFTTT to include a
>> > Plone API channel.
>> >
>> > Daniel Bennett
>> > da...@ci...
>> >
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