Huh - good idea.
A few specific ideas below but a general thought first:
Is there a generic API-intake that we could use to combine gov't APIs (or really any APIs) with IFTTT ? There's a 2 dimensional layer to that, using the Feed channel if something is available as RSS, but it'd be really powerful if there was X service that had a channel in IFTTT and then also could intake any restful API. I'm not smart enough to know - is what I'm describing basically YQL or Yahoo Pipes?
Some ideas -
* I would say 'farmers market opens for the year' but think that the metadata for
that API isn't parsed out well enough for that.
* I wonder if it'd be possible to use the
NREL API to power something that would alert you whenever there's a new alternative fuel station that opens within a certain geographic area...
* Maybe
airport status (not quite the same as line times)? E.G. Triggers that are based off of an airport getting shut down. I feel like many frequent flyers would be interested in getting a heads up of an event like this morning's at LAX for any airport in the lower 48, not just certain ones.
A big question I don't know the answer to is how hard it would be to use IFTTT or any number of other services to set up an alert to new or updated entries in a certain query of an API. That's something which I think fits many of the public APIs and would have hundreds of use cases.
Anyone have any ideas how to do this scalably?
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