Use IFTTT to trigger Tasker

[R Mamola]

What do you guys use to trigger Tasker via IFTTT?

I have read several options to trigger tasks in Tasker via IFTTT but was wondering what else can be used or which is best?

So far I have these IFTTT via:

- Pushbullet Note

- Email (sendsilentmail, Quick Trigger)

- SMS (provider billing/ SIM needed)

The reason i'm asking this is because I was playing with RSS feeds (as example) to get something done but getting the correct task to reed feeds can be time consuming and with IFTTT you would have something up and running within a few minutes.

For Tasker beginners (like me) this can be very handy.

[Adamx]

I use Pushover (paid Android app) to send notifications to my phone from ifttt. Mostly these are for notifications not to trigger tasks.

I'm hoping that ifttt will implement the new pushover API that lets you send invisible notifications, so Tasker can handle those without the notification popping up. But you can achieve basically the same effect by setting the notification to silent/no vibrate in Pushover, and having Tasker process the notifications and use logic to decide which ones to play a notification tone for and which to process silently. If you use AutoNotification (paid Tasker plugin) you could dismiss the notifications from Pushover, too.

[R Mamola]

Tasker can also make those notifications disappear i think.

Only issue i have with Pushover (also paid for it) is that i don't understand how the filters work. For example. I would like to filter on specific url's only but they are always different but alwaus start with https://www,trakt.tv/

What can be used as wildcard for this?

I expected it to be * but doesn't seem to work.

[Saad Thahim]

Pushover sends notifications, how will it trigger tasker.

[R Mamola]

Pushover sends notifications, how will it trigger tasker.

Pushover indeed sends notifications but in combination with IFTTT you can let it do tasks in Tasker.

1 example.

In IFTTT i have configured a recipe for a RSS feed to send a notification with Pushover for every new item.

In Tasker i configured a profile that gets triggerd on a Pushover notification.

Profile, new event, plugin, Pushover notification (works also with Pushbullet, that is free)

And then reuse Pushover content profile tasks. https://pushover.net/faq#android-tasker

Now i only need to get rid of the Pushover notification but i'll keep it for testing purpose for now.

It works way faster then configure a HTTP GET item in Tasker, I have another use case were i do need to use HTTP GET because there isn't a RSS feed available but i can reuse a previous profile i created earlier.

[Saad Thahim]

Ok i get it, i thought tasker will directly be triggered with IFTTT.

[R Mamola]

Ok i get it, i thought tasker will directly be triggered with IFTTT.

That would be the ideal situation but not going to happen unless someone makes a module. for both IFTTT and Tasker 

[Adamx]

A way to get non-RSS website data into IFTTT is Yahoo Pipes. It has its own learning curve (and who knows how long Yahoo will support it) but you can turn data from any website into an RSS feed that IFTTT could then track. It does add a bit of a delay, I think it polls the sources periodically, not instantly when the source data changes. I use this for some of my IFTTT alerts.

[R Mamola]

Thanks for the Yahoo tip ;)

IFTTT also checks periodically according to the FAQ https://ifttt.com/wtf 

Polling period, 15 minutes.