Polling Period
Personal Recipes check for new Trigger data every 15 minutes.
Some Recipes have “Quick Triggers” that will run as soon as they receive Trigger data. Quick Triggers can be identified by a lightning bolt icon (⚡).
IFTTT is a service that lets you create powerful connections with one simple statement:
“if this then that”
Channels are the basic building blocks of IFTTT. Each Channel has its own Triggers and Actions. Some example Channels are:
Twitter
Facebook
Evernote
Email
Weather
The this part of a Recipe is a Trigger. Some example Triggers are “I’m tagged in a photo on Facebook” or “I post a tweet on Twitter.”
The that part of a Recipe is an Action. Some example Actions are “send me a text message” or “create a status message on Facebook.”
Personal Recipes are a combination of a Trigger and an Action from your active Channels. Personal Recipes look like this:
if
Any new photo by you ltibbets
then
Add file from URL to Linden Tibbet’s Dropbox
Shared Recipes are useful templates shared by the IFTTT community. Shared Recipes look like this:
Autosave all your Instagram photos to Dropbox
by Linden on 22 Nov 2011
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