A short educational program on IFTTT + announcement of our new column

We are starting a new daily section with helpful recipes IFTTT, but for now we want to remind you the basic rules of this service.

On the pages of this blog, we constantly get acquainted with the best services, which help you to perform many useful tasks. they all work about the same pattern, which can be expressed by the words "click on the button - get the result," ie require direct user interaction. However, there is a way to teach the services to work independently. You probably already guessed that we are talking about IFTTT project.

IFTTT is a special service that allows you to link together a variety of Web-based applications and make them smoothly perform a desired action. The very idea of ​​such an automated internet seems so promising, and application examples IFTTT so useful that this week we decided to start a blog in a new section called Recipe of the day by IFTTT. But first we want to remind you the basic operation of this service.

IFTTT basic working principle is encrypted in its name.

That is, if in one place there is an event (Trigger) Else happens we specified action (Action). In this case, the word "place" means usually one of the Internet services, although not exclusively. These services, in IFTTT terminology, called channels (Channels). In this case, each channel has its own, peculiar only to him a set of triggers and actions.

Since the channels are made to receive and transmit various data, then you will need every one of them activated, that is to provide the right service IFTTT handle your data in a variety of services. This is done very simply, and is usually in entering their credentials.

The combination of trigger and action of the activated channels you have called the recipe (recipes) and it is, in fact, exactly what we needed and IFTTT. You can create your own recipes, and you can use made by other users of the service, in whole or in part by editing parameters for themselves. Spread recipes in the form of a visual image:

For example, shown in the picture recipe allows every morning to get the weather forecast on your e-mail inbox. You can try it for a job this link and, at the same time, in practice, to understand the basic principles of IFTTT work.

Well, we, in turn, will try to not let you get bored and will provide you with the most useful examples of the application of this wonderful service in our new column Recipe of the day by IFTTT.