IFTTT: Maker Webhooks

How to configure IFTTT Maker Webhooks service?

Working configuration:

Ingredients

• Send: “Event with 3 JSON values” (JSON payload containing value1, value2, value3)
• Trigger: “Receive a web request” (Value1, Value2, Value3 ingredients)

POST /trigger/web_request/with/key/MyUniqApiKey HTTP/2
Host: maker.ifttt.com
content-type: application/json
content-length: 68

{
  "example": ["lorem","ipsum"],
  "value1":"foo",
  "value2":"bar"
}

Ingredients:

Value1: foo
Value2: bar
Value3: none

JSON Payload

• Send: “Event with an arbitrary JSON payload” (arbitrary JSON payload)
• Trigger: “Receive a web request with a JSON payload” (JsonPayload ingredient)

Attention

Note the /json/ part in the webhook address.
This specifies whether the request contains arbitrary JSON or with required keys.

POST /trigger/web_request_json/json/with/key/MyUniqApiKey HTTP/2
Host: maker.ifttt.com
content-type: application/json
content-length: 68

{
  "example": ["lorem","ipsum"],
  "value1":"foo",
  "value2":"bar"
}

Ingredients:

JsonPayload: {"example": ["lorem","ipsum"], "value1": "foo", "value2": "bar"}

Not working configurations:

JSON Payload → Ingredients

• Send: “Event with an arbitrary JSON payload” (arbitrary JSON payload)
• Trigger: “Receive a web request” (Value1, Value2, Value3 ingredients)

POST /trigger/web_request/json/with/key/MyUniqApiKey HTTP/2
Host: maker.ifttt.com
content-type: application/json
content-length: 68

{
  "example": ["lorem","ipsum"],
  "value1":"foo",
  "value2":"bar"
}

Ingredients:

Value1: none
Value2: none
Value3: none

Ingredients → JSON Payload

• Send: “Event with 3 JSON values” (JSON payload containing value1, value2, value3)
• Trigger: “Receive a web request with a JSON payload” (JsonPayload ingredient)

POST /trigger/web_request_json/with/key/MyUniqApiKey HTTP/2
Host: maker.ifttt.com
content-type: application/json
content-length: 68

{
  "example": ["lorem","ipsum"],
  "value1":"foo",
  "value2":"bar"
}

Ingredients:

JsonPayload: none

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