Become a Trigger Channel on IFTTT

JimSeithJimSeith Registered Users Posts: 2 Beginner grinner
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.

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  • WinsomeWorksWinsomeWorks Registered Users Posts: 1,935 Major grins
    edited September 3, 2013
    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!
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  • JimSeithJimSeith Registered Users Posts: 2 Beginner grinner
    edited September 4, 2013
    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
  • GuyGGGuyGG Registered Users Posts: 7 Beginner grinner
    edited November 29, 2013
    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.
  • ScottShotScottShot Registered Users Posts: 2 Beginner grinner
    edited December 1, 2013
    I agree, this feature would be a great!
  • mbonocorembonocore Registered Users Posts: 2,299 Major grins
    edited December 2, 2013
    Added to active list. I would love this as well :)
  • MileHighAkoMileHighAko Registered Users Posts: 413 Major grins
    edited January 28, 2015
    Resurrecting this old thread to give it a +1. I also would find a Smugmug channel on IFTTT to be valuable.
  • leftquarkleftquark Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 3,784 Many Grins
    edited January 30, 2015
    I never knew about this. Sounds pretty awesome. I'd personally love it!
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  • jemostromjemostrom Registered Users Posts: 136 Major grins
    edited February 5, 2015
    I've been waiting for a couple of years for this :)
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  • OmahaMamaOmahaMama Registered Users Posts: 27 Big grins
    edited September 14, 2015
    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!
  • leftquarkleftquark Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 3,784 Many Grins
    edited September 14, 2015
    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.
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  • jemostromjemostrom Registered Users Posts: 136 Major grins
    edited September 14, 2015
    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.
    Jan Erik Moström
  • markderrymarkderry Registered Users Posts: 68 Big grins
    edited September 21, 2015
    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.
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  • rstocksrstocks Registered Users Posts: 2 Beginner grinner
    edited May 20, 2016
    Any updates on this? Seems it got a bunch of support back in early 2015; any plans to do it?
  • leftquarkleftquark Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 3,784 Many Grins
    edited May 20, 2016
    Hi rstocks, we're currently hard at work on some other projects that we're excited to bring you.
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