Expanding Push for Chrome automates hundreds of services
Web Services Browsers / / December 19, 2019
Expanding Push for Google Chrome makes it easy to interact with more than 500 online services. With it, you can quickly send messages, add notes, and perform many other actions, without leaving your browser open tab.
Push as part Zapier platform
Push - it's browser-based version of the platform for the automation of Zapier, which is a competitor IFTTT.
Zapier working on roughly the same pattern as the IFTTT. You register on the website and setting up a so-called "zapy» (zaps) - scenario of interaction between different services. For example, you can connect cloud storage Google Drive and Dropbox and configure automatic copying of files from one cloud to another. As a result, with the addition of each new file system will do its own backup.
Push carries Zapier control in Google Chrome and expanding capabilities of the platform. Previously, you could create a scenario of interaction between different services that worked well without your direct involvement, as in the example with clouds.
Now users can access new types of scripts that can be run manually at the right time, without leaving the browser tab. This opens up great opportunities for the automation of unplanned similar actions.
For example, if you suddenly need to send an email, without having to navigate in Gmail and configure the parameters of the new posts there. Only a couple of clicks Push the menu within the current tab.
How to work with Push
To use Push, you must create an account on website Zapier and install an extension for Chrome. The button for the Push the menu button will appear in the browser, from which you can run all you have created scenarios of interaction with various services: send e-mail through Gmail, add cards in Trello, and so Further.
When you first start displays a list of the recommended scenarios and a button to create a new menu.
Click on any of the recommended scenarios or click Make a Push Zap! Zapier send you to a website where you can configure one of the options, or create your own script. In any case, the system will send you detailed tips.
In general, the process is reduced to the choice of conditions (Trigger) and actions (Action), which will make Zapier when a specified condition you. For example, send the copied text or a link to a smartphone in the push-notification format as soon as you press the corresponding button.
All user-created scripts with their activation keys are displayed in the Push menu. Thus, it becomes a universal operation panel which allows to perform simple operations on a plurality of connected services.
Although the platform has long IFTTT includes its own mobile app, Zapier them yet. But as for the Web, there is a leader Zapier: the competitor has not yet got an extension for Chrome.
examples of automation
Here are just a few of the hundreds of actions that you can perform with other services by expanding Push.
- Add task to Wunderlist, Todoist, Basecamp or other task-manager.
- Send an email to the selected address through Gmail or add a new message template.
- Add event to «Google Calendar."
- Send a link or text to another device via Pushbullet or Pushover app.
- To add a note in Evernote.
- Send post to Facebook, Slack, Twitter or any other social networking service.
Fees and restrictions
Owners Zapier free accounts can store up to five different scenarios, with the service limits their use hundreds of automated actions in the last month. Also, without payment users can not connect to the platform, all supported services and develop multi-level automation scripts. To remove these and other limitations, it is necessary to issue one of the subscription options cost from $ 20 per month.
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