nifffty is a simple package to post events/data to an IFTTT Maker channel/recipe and receive events (via Maker) from IFTTT actions.

Inspired by a blog post by Brian Connelly.

Here is a sample public recipe for posting the contents of a maker request to a file on Dropbox. The example below, which calls maker("rtest", "this", "is a", "test") will create a file in a Dropbox folder (in an IFTTT/Maker/rtest directory) that has the contents:

Value 1: this
Value 2: is a
Value 3: test

(How the contents is formatted is entirely up to you.)

Brian's example posts an iOS notification, but you can do many, many things with this capability.

Future enhancements will include the ability to have Shiny use Maker web POST calls as inputs.

The following functions are implemented:

• ifttt_api_key: Get or set IFTTT_KEY value
• maker: Issue IFTTT maker channel POST event
• receiver: Listen and react to IFTTT Maker web calls

Installation

devtools::install_github("hrbrmstr/nifffty")

Usage

library(nifffty)

# current verison
packageVersion("nifffty")
#> [1] '0.1.1.9000'

maker("rtest", "this", "is a", "test")

To setup a receiver, create a script on a server that can receive requests from the internet (I named the following listen.R):

library(nifffty)

do_it <- function(req) {
  require(jsonlite)
  print(fromJSON(names(req$POST())))
  writeLines(names(req$POST()), "/tmp/bob.txt")
}

# you can change the port to match what you put into IFTTT

rcvr <- receiver(port=10999, handler=do_it)

print(rcvr)

while (TRUE) Sys.sleep(24 * 60 * 60)

For this example, I created an Apple Watch IFFFT "DO Button" to send my coordinates & timestamp when pressed:

Once that's setup, just call the script from the command-line:

bob@server:~$ Rscript listen.R
Loading required package: methods
Loading required package: Rook
Server started on 0.0.0.0:10999
[1] nifffty http://0.0.0.0:10999/custom/nifffty

Call browse() with an index number or name to run an application.
Loading required package: jsonlite

Attaching package: ‘jsonlite’

The following object is masked from ‘package:utils’:

    View

When it receives an event it will print the following to the console:

$latitude
[1] 43.25931

$longitude
[1] -70.80062

$timestamp
[1] "June 19, 2015 at 04:45PM"

and, write the following to /tmp/bob.txt

bob@server:~$ cat /tmp/bob.txt
{ "latitude": 43.2593566552207, "longitude": -70.8004647307757, "timestamp": "June 19, 2015 at 04:46PM" }

This same setup will work with any IFTTT action, not just "DO" buttons.

Test Results

library(nifffty)
library(testthat)

date()
#> [1] "Fri Jun 19 17:09:58 2015"

test_dir("tests/")
#> basic functionality :

Code of Conduct

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