dipen-dedania / ifttt-boilerplate

ifttt boilerplate with NodeJS & Express

ifttt-boilerplate

IFTTT is a free platform that helps you do more with all your apps and devices.

If you are looking to create a service or trigger that you can publish into IFTTT, here's a sample project that you can built upon. In, IFTTT official site, you will find a Hello World! program in RUBY (not a big fan :P). So here's one with NodeJS & Express framework.

Setup

• Just fork this repo. Clone it into your local PC and run below commands.

npm install

• You are almost ready with code. Now go to the https://platform.ifttt.com/services and create your own service.
• Now, navigate to API tab (https://platform.ifttt.com/services/{your-service-name}/api), and copy your service key to the config file.
• Create a new trigger (my_trigger)
• Create a new action (say-hello)
• Now run over NodeJS application.

Are you still with me? Good. Now you can run NodeJS application by:

node server.js

Fire up this http://localhost:8080/ . There you go, our Hello world application up and running. Now, we need IFTTT to test our local service. Download Ngrok (https://ngrok.com/) and run it.

ngrok.exe http 8080

Paste this ngrok URL to IFTTT API URL.

Great! Everything is up and ready to test. Let's go to endpoint_tests page & click on Begin test.

You should be able to use this service/triggers into Applets. Customize triggers and service code as per your need. Enjoy!