Sunday, November 8, 2015

automation - Trigger actions on notification received with IFTTT


IFTTT has a notifications channel but unfortunately it does not contain any triggers.


Is there any other way to perform an action when a notification is received? Is there any IFTTT service that can capture notifications and send them to IFTTT?
How can I use an incoming notification as trigger in IFTTT?


I don't see any reason why IFTTT can't be one of those notification manager applications.



Answer



You can use the Android Device IFTTT service:



https://ifttt.com/android_device




It has "Notification received from specific app" trigger where you can filter the Notification by app name and notification keyword.


Please beware that the keyword must be a whole word. Trigger won't be fired if you filter "receive" and the notification is "sms received". You must use "received" as a keyword to catch that notification.


The service also has "Notification received" trigger, that fires for all android notifications.


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