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[Aaron Wells <1599471@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Unfortunately I don't think ifttt.com support is on the Mahara HQ
roadmap right now, but to provide some background on this idea in case
anyone else is interested:

IFTTT ("If this then that", ifttt.com ) is a web-based service that lets
users write basic scripts (called "recipes") that can read data from
various external services and feed data back out into other external
services. These external services are called "channels". For instance
when you sign up, the basic recipe they show you as a demonstration is a
recipe that is triggered by a daily weather channel, and sends the
forecast into the email channel, thus emailing you your weather forecast
every day.

So you can see how this could be used to automatically pull data from
various services, and populate it into a Mahara portfolio.

Right now, their "developer" link goes to a page saying their developer
program is in private beta, so we probably can't get a Mahara channel
added. But there is a "Maker" channel that allows you to interact with
generic webservices, so someone might be able to get that to work with
Mahara's webservices. See https://ifttt.com/maker and
https://www.hackster.io/ifttt/projects

Cheers,
Aaron

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Title:
  add a ifttt channel

Status in Mahara:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  in the wishlist :

  Automatically populate a portfolio using a ifttt recipe. It could be
  files uploaded from a cloud, pictures from Instagram, post in
  facebook, etc.

  The general idea is to have a handle to feed a portfolio (in files or
  in journal) with artefacts from elsewhere.

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