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Re: Is IFTTT anything more than just a toy?

From Joe Beanfish <joebeanfish@nospam.duh>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc, uk.comp.os.linux
Subject Re: Is IFTTT anything more than just a toy?
Date 2015-04-06 13:42 +0000
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <mfu2gi$ud7$2@dont-email.me> (permalink)
References <3uk4vb-3og.ln1@squidward.dionic.net>

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On Sat, 04 Apr 2015 09:45:23 +0100, Tim Watts wrote:
> It looks cool superficially -
> 
> But I'm damned if I can find a way to get it to:
> 
> a) TRIGGER on a JSON web API or anything vaguely generic;
> 
> b) DO a JSON API or even a generic (authenticated) HTTP GET.
> 
> Right now all it seems to do is let you do silly stuff like "IF
> weather=Raining THEN DO post a tweet".
> 
> 
> Am I missing something or is it just a load of daft old bollocks?

I only had it installed for about five minutes so I'm no expert, but
what I saw seemed that it was a bunch of social network connectors.
It couldn't even do much of anything with the phone itself. So you'd
probably have to write a plugin for it to do what you want.

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Is IFTTT anything more than just a toy? Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2015-04-04 09:45 +0100
  Re: Is IFTTT anything more than just a toy? Joe Beanfish <joebeanfish@nospam.duh> - 2015-04-06 13:42 +0000
    Re: Is IFTTT anything more than just a toy? Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2015-04-06 15:16 +0100

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