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ao3some2012-06-22 11:17 pm
samjohnsson) wrote in ao3some2012-06-22 11:17 pm
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Using IFTTT to hack a "Works by Author in a Fandom" subscription
Someone posted earlier about IFTTT and the way you can set up all sorts of nifty "recipes" to automate the web for you.
Well, it's been driving me nuts - one of my favorite writers has been writing in "Fandom A" - which I adore - but is still also writing in "Fandom B" - which is the sole reason I installed tumblrsavior. But as you all know, if you subscribe to a feed for an author, you can't pick and choose a fandom, and if you follow the fandom feed, you get every author.
Enter IFTTT.
This creates a recipe that will watch Fandom A's feed and email you any works by Author X. (Numbering here is wonky to align with IFTTT's steps.)
-1. Create an account on IFTTT.
0. Create a new recipe.
"This"
1. Select Feed
2. Select "New Feed Item Matches"
3. Enter Author X's name in "Keyword", and the Fandom feed address in Feed URL. You can get that by going to the Fandom A page and right-clicking on "Subscribe to the Feed".
3a. Click on "Create Trigger".
"That"
4. Select "Email". (Even if you have a Gmail. This is simpler.)
5. Choose "Send me an email."
6. Format what you'd like the email to include. "Entry Content" will automatically contain the Summary and all the Tags.
6a. Click on "Create Action".
7. Give it a description and click on "Create Recipe".
8. Sit back, and watch the filtered goodness come in to your inbox.
Caveat: because this works off the feed and not the author, it won't pick up Archive-locked works. Still, it catches the rest of everything, so it's a start!
Well, it's been driving me nuts - one of my favorite writers has been writing in "Fandom A" - which I adore - but is still also writing in "Fandom B" - which is the sole reason I installed tumblrsavior. But as you all know, if you subscribe to a feed for an author, you can't pick and choose a fandom, and if you follow the fandom feed, you get every author.
Enter IFTTT.
This creates a recipe that will watch Fandom A's feed and email you any works by Author X. (Numbering here is wonky to align with IFTTT's steps.)
-1. Create an account on IFTTT.
0. Create a new recipe.
"This"
1. Select Feed
2. Select "New Feed Item Matches"
3. Enter Author X's name in "Keyword", and the Fandom feed address in Feed URL. You can get that by going to the Fandom A page and right-clicking on "Subscribe to the Feed".
3a. Click on "Create Trigger".
"That"
4. Select "Email". (Even if you have a Gmail. This is simpler.)
5. Choose "Send me an email."
6. Format what you'd like the email to include. "Entry Content" will automatically contain the Summary and all the Tags.
6a. Click on "Create Action".
7. Give it a description and click on "Create Recipe".
8. Sit back, and watch the filtered goodness come in to your inbox.
Caveat: because this works off the feed and not the author, it won't pick up Archive-locked works. Still, it catches the rest of everything, so it's a start!
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I'm still figuring out my workflow. I know it could be a lot better. I bet I could pinboard-stalk people with really good fic tastes too, via ifttt.
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But I wanted to add that you can just set up a filter on your gmail to filter away fandoms you don't want to see. So then you could just subscribe to all your favourite authors and not have to see stuff from fandom B.
I use filters to sort my AO3 alerts into folders(labels) by fandom.
Like so:
But you could just choose to "delete" the emails with the fandom content you do not want.