Today we explain how to create IFTTT recipes.
After the new APPerla PREMIUM came out yesterday in the APP STORE IFTTT,surely many of you are investigating the world of their recipes. A world in which wonderful combinations can be made between the various channels that the app offers us and that will save us a lot of time.
With IFTTT it became history to say good morning on twitter every day, no more having to manually upload your personal photos to your account in the cloud, always being aware that a new one appears news on your favorite website, there are so many combinations that we can make that we can say that this platform is infinite and you can make an infinite number of recipes that will surely make our day-to-day life easier.
In the article where we talk about this app, we briefly explain how to create an IFTTT recipe. Today we are going to explain it to you step by step, the basics to create a simple recipe.
HOW TO CREATE SIMPLE IFTTT RECIPES:
To begin with, we have to be clear about what recipes we want to make and what channels we are going to use. By channel we understand the platforms that offer different services online such as Dropbox, Instagram, Facebook
When we are clear about the channels to use, we must select them in the configuration option « CHANNELS » and enter our user data for them.
We can create both simple recipes and complex recipes, but today we are going to show you the case of a simple recipe so that you can get the hang of this application:
- SIMPLE RECIPE:
We are going to create an order that will consist of every day, at 9:00 in the morning, we are going to say good morning on TWITTER .
For this we must be subscribed, through IFTTT, to the channel « DATA & TIME » and the channel « TWITTER «. If we haven't done it before, we can do it at the same time we create the recipe.
To start with the recipe, we are going to click on the "mortar" button that appears in the upper right part of the screen and a new menu will open in which we will have to click on the "+" option which also appears at the top right of the screen.
Once this is done, the magic phrase « If “this” happens then do “this other” will appear »
We will press on the blue square and select our first channel, which in this case will be the « DATA & TIME » channel. Once positioned on it, we will see that a multitude of possibilities appear at the bottom of the screen. Among all of them, since we want to say good morning every day, we select the option « EVERY DAY AT «.
After this we will choose the time at which we want to send the tweet.
Now we have the second part of the recipe.
Click on the red square and since we want to execute the action on TWITTER, we must select the channel of said social network.
In it we also see that a multitude of options appear, such as sending a tweet, sending a tweet with images, adding users to a list, changing the profile photo Among all of them, how do we want to send a good morning tweet , select the option « POST A TWEET «.
Done we will see the phrase of the recipe and we will finish the creation of it, clicking on the option « FINISH «.
But this does not end here since we will have to customize the tweet and for this we will have to access the created recipe by clicking on it, in the « RECIPES » menu. When clicking on it, this screen will appear:
In it we will press on « EDIT RECIPE «, to edit it.
In this menu we will see at the bottom a little box called « WHAT'S HAPPENING? «, which is where we must enter the message that we want to be published on our Twitter account.
In it we will see a gray box called « CHECKTIME » which is nothing more than the inclusion of the time and date in our message. We can delete it if we don't want it to appear.
After configuring the message, click on the « UPDATE » button located at the top right of the screen.
Since the creation of this IFTTT recipe, every day at 9am we will say good morning to all our followers until we decide to deactivate the recipe, or delete it.
CONCLUSION:
As you can see it's very easy to create simple IFTTT recipes.
As soon as you get a little practice, making a recipe in the same way that we have done this one, you will be able to create any action with a few simple touches on the screen, such as recipes in which every time it rains in your city send a tweet giving the news, every month change your profile photo on social networks, send a congratulatory email to a friend on his birthday, the possibilities are almost endless.
Shortly we will post an example of how to create more complex IFTTT recipes.
STAY TUNED!!! ?
