IFTTT webhooks maker basic authentication

Question

Creating an ifttt applet to call a web service api. But failing if i use username and password in the url.

Anyone passed username and password in wehooks ifttt?

Answer 1

It should work with http://username:password@example.com

Alternatively you could use a secret key var that is checked in the script if it keeps failing for you.

Answer 2

You can easily implement and use IFTTT on your website by using this NPM package: ifttt-webhooks-channel

I implemented it by using the following:

const IFTTT = require('ifttt-webhooks-channel');

const ifttt = new IFTTT('your key goes in here as a string');

Then when you have added IFTTT and your key to your node application, you can post to the webhook by using:

ifttt.post('ContactformUsed', [
    firstName,
    email
]);

You can add the post request to any callback function you have in your web application

The string "ContactformUsed" is the name of the webhook (The one you use to idendity the specific webhook you have made. This is a webhook name you choose on ifttt's website). The above example is a post request to a webhook i made, that will give me a notification with the firstname and email of the person using the contact form on my website.

If you would like to read a bit more detailed about IFTTT and how to implement it on your website, then i have made an article here: https://themikeandersen.com/blog/how-to-send-notifications-from-your-website-through-ifttt