Triggering an IFTTT Webhook

Now that we have created our IFTTT Applet, we need to take a few more steps to learn how to trigger our Webhook. These steps boil down to knowing where to navigate to within IFTTT to discover your unique Webhook URL.

Here are the steps we need to follow:

1. First, we need to navigate to the Webhooks page. There are a couple of ways we can do this, and I'll leave it up to you which route you take:

• • Navigate your web browser to the Webhook services URL; that is, ifttt.com/maker_webhook.
  • Alternatively, the navigation steps to take to get to this web page are as follows:
    1. Click on the profile avatar icon (as shown previously in Figure 13.2).
    2. In the menu that appears, choose the My Services item (refer to Figure 13.3).
    3. On the page that appears, find and click on the Webhooks item.

Irrespective of the path you take, you will see the page shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 13.13 – The Webhooks page

2. Click on the Documentation...