Become a Trigger Channel on IFTTT

JimSeith

As a Trigger Channel one can set up "recipes" to automatically notify/post/other options on a host of other social media/email/blog/etc sites each time a photo is uploaded to your Smugmug site (or other things happen on that upload depending on how one sets up the "Trigger" rules). This saves a great deal of time and allows one to pull folks back to the Smug site from other social media and blog sites.

500PX, Flickr are triggers channels now. A simple upload to those locations with (my recipe rule) a tag of "IFTTT" on the photo posts that image with description on 6 other locations automatically.

WinsomeWorks

JimSeith wrote: »

As a Trigger Channel one can set up "recipes" to automatically notify/post/other options on a host of other social media/email/blog/etc sites each time a photo is uploaded to your Smugmug site (or other things happen on that upload depending on how one sets up the "Trigger" rules). This saves a great deal of time and allows one to pull folks back to the Smug site from other social media and blog sites.

500PX, Flickr are triggers channels now. A simple upload to those locations with (my recipe rule) a tag of "IFTTT" on the photo posts that image with description on 6 other locations automatically.

This sounds intriguing to me, but would you mind explaining more thoroughly? I'm not quite following all of this. For instance, how do you have a "Trigger Channel"? Is it an official thing? What is it exactly? Where do you go to to this? Sorry if I'm sounding stupid, but I've read it a few times and just can't quite figure out what you mean. Thanks!

JimSeith

WinsomeWorks wrote: »

This sounds intriguing to me, but would you mind explaining more thoroughly? I'm not quite following all of this. For instance, how do you have a "Trigger Channel"? Is it an official thing? What is it exactly? Where do you go to to this? Sorry if I'm sounding stupid, but I've read it a few times and just can't quite figure out what you mean. Thanks!

Easiest thing to is go to www.IFTTT.com and set up a "recipe." it is actually quite logical once you get past the buzzwords--i didn't explain well.

You pick a "trigger" from a list of 'Trigger Channels" used by the site. I chose my Flickr site. Authorize your Flickr site to see IFTTT, and it then becomes the first part of your recipe-or trigger. So now when I upload a photo to my "trigger" I need to specify an action.

Now I pick an action from the list of sites on IFTTT that can react to my trigger. In my case, gmail. Whenever I upload to Flickr, a gmail with text I put in on the IFTTT site goes to the list of contacts I specify. Automatically. You can trigger your blog if it is one of IFTTT supported blogs (tumblr, blogger, etc).

You can build many recipes for Flickr--or other triggers. It automates workflow. You can use the IFTTT time and date trigger to automate announcements, ring your I phone, even turn lights on and off with the new Belkin wifi light switch with got added to IFTTT as one of the available actions.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,

Jim

GuyGG

I would *LOVE* to have a SmugMug channel on IFTTT. For now, the best we can do is use the RSS feed trigger on a SmugMug feed URL, but that has limitations.

ScottShot

I agree, this feature would be a great!

mbonocore

Added to active list. I would love this as well

MileHighAko

Resurrecting this old thread to give it a +1. I also would find a Smugmug channel on IFTTT to be valuable.

leftquark

I never knew about this. Sounds pretty awesome. I'd personally love it!

jemostrom

I've been waiting for a couple of years for this

OmahaMama

SmugMug connect to IFTTT?
Just wondering if there is any word. I would LOVE to have my iOS photos automatically go to a SmugMug album. I manage to keep filling my iCloud storage, and have to MANUALLY move around. Help a girl out!

leftquark

OmahaMama wrote: »

Just wondering if there is any word. I would LOVE to have my iOS photos automatically go to a SmugMug album. I manage to keep filling my iCloud storage, and have to MANUALLY move around. Help a girl out!

As of now, the best way to do this would be through a future version of the iOS app, in which it would automatically upload your photos to SmugMug.

jemostrom

OmahaMama wrote: »

Just wondering if there is any word. I would LOVE to have my iOS photos automatically go to a SmugMug album. I manage to keep filling my iCloud storage, and have to MANUALLY move around. Help a girl out!

If you want to have automatic upload now take a look at photosync, it should be able to do automatic uploads to Smugmug.

markderry

I would also love this! I want a place for all of my Instagram photos to live. When I currently post on instagram I have around 5 IFTTT triggers that push that picture out to all of my social media sites. It would be great to have a gallery in my Smugmug page that collects all of these into one place.

rstocks

Any updates on this? Seems it got a bunch of support back in early 2015; any plans to do it?

leftquark

Hi rstocks, we're currently hard at work on some other projects that we're excited to bring you.