About six months ago I came across Huginn [1] for the third or fourth time and finally decided to give it a shot. I've absolutely loved it so far! The docs aren't always great for each agent, but I've never struggled for too long before figuring it out. I'm currently using it for:<p>* Scraping HN search for new appearances of projects I work on, and immedietely alerting me via email.<p>* Checking the frontpage of HN for topics I'm interested in, and adding it into my daily digest email.<p>* Pulling in Commit Strip and XKCD comics when they're posted and adding them to my daily digest email.<p>* Sending me a notification in the morning if it's going to rain.<p>* Giving me and my friends the cheapest flight price for a group holiday we're planning. It scans google flights daily so we can watch it tick down over time and decide when to buy.<p>* Sending me notifications if there's a significant drop in the currency for the country we're going to so I can purchase some at the best price.<p>* Adding the names of people who RSVP to my wedding into my daily digest email so I can keep a pulse on the final guest list.<p>Hopefully I'll get a few more ideas from this thread as well!<p>[1] Huginn - <a href="https://github.com/huginn/huginn" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/huginn/huginn</a>
I have a Zapier hook that filters donation projects from donorschoose.org (food related needs from low-income schools) and sends it to my email address.<p>Example:<p>Title: Yummy Yummy in Our Tummies<p>School: Jeanne Meadows Elementary School<p>City: San Jose<p>State: California (North)<p>Cost to complete: 248.48<p>Link: <a href="https://www.donorschoose.org/project/yummy-yummy-in-our-tummies/4599016/?utm_source=api&utm_medium=feed&utm_content=bodylink&utm_campaign=DONORSCHOOSE" rel="nofollow">https://www.donorschoose.org/project/yummy-yummy-in-our-tumm...</a><p>Description: I teach at a Title I school in East San Jose. A majority of my students are first-generation Americans with hardworking immigrant parents. Seventy percent of the students at my school are
I use IFTTT with a project of mine[0] to track hotel and flight prices in a spreadsheet and get suggestions on places to go.<p>[0]: <a href="https://monitoro.xyz" rel="nofollow">https://monitoro.xyz</a>
I always pick Zapier for automation these days, even for production-level projects. Before that I once searched across several other alternatives and came across Tray.io for my project but they seemed to be very expensive and also had less integrations compared to the likes of Zapier, with no free trial.<p>I'm not sure why anyone would choose them over Zapier for the prices they were offering but perhaps that's the reason why I wasn't surprised why many developers and businesses keep choosing either Zapier or IFTTT.
I forget if it was IFTTT or something else I set up that downloads any YouTube videos I like/upvote into a cloud sync directory for me.<p>I may write some custom code to extend this to just youtube-dl anything that appears in my youtube history and store it on my NAS.<p>I’ll probably self-host huginn and have it periodically put downloaded things (eg offline maps, torrented music via rss) into a syncthing directory (that syncs to all my workstations).
I use Zapier to automatically invest monthly savings (our bank has an API and Zapier integration). Didn't come up with this myself, but here's how it works:<p><a href="https://medium.com/@petervandoorn92/how-i-automated-investing-through-bunq-zapier-degiro-and-a-bit-of-node-js-8f61ea21cbf3" rel="nofollow">https://medium.com/@petervandoorn92/how-i-automated-investin...</a>
Pro tip - We moved most of our automated processes (business and peronal ones) from Zapier to Integromat which is not only more powerful but also more generous in its free tier.<p><a href="https://www.integromat.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.integromat.com/</a>
I don't use Zapier because of money. I use IFTTT to:<p>* Keep a spreadsheet of my written tweets.<p>* Keep a spreadsheet of my liked tweets.<p>* Used to download Instagram photos liked by me, but Instagram API broke it.<p>* Keep a text file of my hn, reddit comments, in two separate files.
Company uses it to sync client jiras to our internal jira so PMs and the like don't need multiple logins.<p>I personally do not use either. The less tech and notifications in my life the better.
If Donal Trump tweets something that has word "Turkey" then I immediatly get notified. If it is something negative I sell my Turkish Liras and buy Euro.
I use it to get notified for specific keywords in some RSS feeds, and I get notified over Facebook Messenger when my alarm system is enabled / disabled (no control of it through Messenger)<p>I also use it to trigger IFTTT from some local system events via webhooks and curl (ie: my server finished downloading something)
I use IFTTT to log various events on my home automation ecosystem to Google sheets. For example , each member in my household has their own unlock code for the zwave doorlock. So when any one of us unlocks the door, it will note the person's name and time the door was unlocked.
I use Zapier to watch the Twitter feed of a conference I go to (NationJS). They announce stuff there first, and update their website much later. Oh, and it only happens twice a year, so I find out about it when it happens, without having to go to twitter.
Have been using Jogly and sometimes Zapier to notify us of actions happening with payloads being posted or form submissions across our sites - pretty simple use cases and have both x-www-form-urlencoded and JSON coming in to same endpoints.
Business processes which are repeatable, time consuming and not possible to do with native integrations between tools (or when native integrations just don't exist)
I watch some running race registration sites with Zapier and when it tells me that they are open I go register immediately so I can have a low bib number.
I use Zapier (free plan) to post to the Facebook page associated to my side project.<p>I tried to do that through FB's Graph API and failed miserably. Too much red tape
I use it to control my LIFX bulb from Twitch chat and from my stream deck. <a href="https://www.samjarman.co.nz/blog/lifx-twitch" rel="nofollow">https://www.samjarman.co.nz/blog/lifx-twitch</a>. No programming required but a technical brain helped :)
I built <a href="http://pagepoller.r14.railsrumble.com" rel="nofollow">http://pagepoller.r14.railsrumble.com</a> it scrapes web pages and emails if some specific part changes. I use it to get top HN story, xkcd and when free books are available on packtpub.
I'm building a competing product over at <a href="https://puump.com" rel="nofollow">https://puump.com</a> which can post RSS feeds (automation is still in the works, so its manual for now)