{"id":6651,"date":"2012-09-20T22:07:01","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T02:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/?p=6651"},"modified":"2012-09-25T09:18:28","modified_gmt":"2012-09-25T13:18:28","slug":"ifttt-twitter-triggers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2012\/09\/20\/ifttt-twitter-triggers\/","title":{"rendered":"IFTTT Twitter Triggers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Because of Twitter’s impending API terms changes<\/a> (how third parties can access their service), third parties like If-This-Then-That are dropping Twitter. Ugh.<\/p>\n

I only had two\u00c2\u00a0recipes\u00c2\u00a0using Twitter.<\/p>\n

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    1. Post any tweets I tag #ln to LinkedIn. I don’t even think I triggered it once.<\/li>\n
    2. Copy my tweets to Dropbox. I deleted both, but decided I needed to replicate the Dropbox one.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n

      So I went to search.twitter.com<\/a> to make an RSS feed of a search on my name since I knew that would work. Only I could not find an option to get the link to the RSS feed for the search. I even looked for RSS and atom in the HTML. So I went to Google Reader where I was sure I have such an RSS feed. Sure enough, there is one.<\/p>\n

      In IFTTT, I setup a recipe to append to a text file anything matching the RSS on the search for my username.<\/p>\n

      The RSS method is better than the Twitter trigger in that it will capture replies. (I’ll be honest that I considered trying this RSS method seconds seconds after seeing the results of the Twitter trigger.) It is worse in that it will collect spammer and phisher tweets.<\/p>\n

      And to be honest, I suspect Twitter will kill the RSS feeds on searches at some point in the near future. They are trying to become more of a walled garden. Which sucks for those of us who love it for not being a walled garden.<\/p>\n

      The suspicion is why I have not posted how to make your own. I know. I suck. But proliferating my trick probably will kill off the feature I like even faster.<\/p>\n

      UPDATE:<\/strong> Oh… And Google Drive was not an option at the time I originally created the recipe. Instead of using Dropbox, I used Google Drive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Because of Twitter’s impending API terms changes (how third parties can access their service), third parties like If-This-Then-That are dropping Twitter. Ugh. I only had two\u00c2\u00a0recipes\u00c2\u00a0using Twitter. Post any tweets I tag #ln to LinkedIn. I don’t even think I triggered it once. Copy my tweets to Dropbox. I deleted both, but decided I needed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[338],"tags":[2380],"class_list":["post-6651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-off-the-twitter-timeline","tag-posted-2012"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rUBW-1Jh","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}