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Showcase/inspire behind the Wikimedia IFTTT triggers
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The Wikipedia IFTTT recipes are cool. The technical guide explains the triggers they use, maybe the hub can explain the implementation of the triggers: roughly, a Flask web service that makes action=featuredfeed API calls, DB queries, and caches recent changes to look for changes).

Related/instead: spage has started API:Showing interesting content for T108661: Showcase/inspire: showing interesting content using FeaturedFeeds which talks about the featuredfeed API module on WMF wikis and goes into some detail on ifttt recipes using it.

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Spage renamed this task from Showcase/inspire behind the Wikimedia IFTTT actions to Showcase/inspire behind the Wikimedia IFTTT triggers.Jul 24 2015, 3:40 AM
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A nice demo might be a JS sandbox that processes e.g. commons potd to make an image gallery. Code notes: 1, hack

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The Web-APIs-Hub project is dead hence mass-declining its tasks to reflect reality. It might be superseded by a Developer Portal in the future.