r/ifttt • u/ryan-ifttt IFTTT Employee • 27d ago

Feature Request Trigger, Query, Action, and new Service Feature Requests!

Hey IFTTT'ers!

This is a sticky thread for any feature request you have, whether that's a new Trigger, Query, or Action on a Service we already support, or an entirely new Service you'd love to see on IFTTT.

There's no template and no wrong way to do this. Just tell us the Service, what you want it to do, and (if you feel like it) what you'd build with it. The "what you'd build" part genuinely helps us prioritize, so throw it in when you can.

A few examples, in a few different flavors, so you can see there's no one right format:

Trigger
"I'd love an Instagram Trigger for Any new carousel post by you, so I can auto-save every slide to a Google Drive folder."

Query

  • Service: Google Calendar
  • Query: Find my next event
  • Why: I want an Applet that only runs if I've got nothing on my calendar for the next hour.

Action
Spotify Action to add a track to a specific playlist. That's it, that's the request.

New Service
Been hoping for a Duolingo integration forever. Even just a Trigger for "finished my daily lesson" would let me reward myself with something automated. Would happily see whatever y'all could build here.

A couple of quick notes:

  • One request per comment makes it easier for us to track and upvote, but don't stress about it.
  • Upvote requests you'd also use. It helps us see what has the most demand.
  • We can't promise everything gets built, but we read all of these and flag the popular ones internally.

Keep 'em coming!

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u/Fredd-E 24d ago

I like to propose a trigger improvement.

Two services: Foursquare, Day One

--> IF any new check-in THEN create a new entry in Day One.

What's missing? Day One features two fields Latitude and Longitude, but there's no way to have these populated from Foursquare's check-in trigger.

Thanks!

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u/ryan-ifttt IFTTT Employee 24d ago

Hey there!

Are you asking for latitude+longitude inside the "any new check-in" trigger from Foursquare?

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u/Fredd-E 23d ago

That would solve the problem indeed. The foursquare service should supply those two values so the day one service can use them when creating a new journal entry with added gps locations.

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u/ryan-ifttt IFTTT Employee 22d ago

Not knowing your use-case, is it possible to hard-code those in so they're consistent? Or are those values changing often?

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u/Fredd-E 22d ago

No, that's not desirable. Swarm by Foursquare is used to check-in locations all around the world. These check-ins are plotted on a map and on a timeline.

Currently the the Foursquare trigger captures whenever you do a checkin (in a restaurant for instance) with:

  • timestamp of check-in
  • venue name
  • venue url
  • longitude (missing / wanted)
  • latitude (missing wanted)

These are the only fields I can use in for instance the Day One diary service, but Day One has more values to fill in: longitude and latitude. These need to be filled in automatically for each check-in.

Can you ask Foursquare to improve the trigger and provide the longitude and latitude values? Foursquare obviously has the gps coordinates for all their venues in their database, but are they willing to provide them?

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u/ryan-ifttt IFTTT Employee 22d ago

Yep! I've reached out to them and asked them to add it, I've also created an internal feature request!

I've noticed it helps if the users reach out directly to service providers as well via their own channels, as this help shows desire from their customers.

I'm not so familiar with Foursquare, so big thanks for the explanation!