IFTTT Maker Channel destination

IFTTT is a very flexible service that lets users create custom recipes for hooking up 300+ different services. They also provide the IFTTT "Maker Channel" so that DIY projects can trigger actions via a webhook. If Outgress could post to its API, then an attack alert could trigger anything from flashing a light to a phone call to turning down your thermostat to cool off your overheating angry head. It could also bridge to a lot of other APIs without having to spend time to implement them.

Unfortunately IFTTT only takes 3 parameters, or 4 if you count the event name (which is used for determining which recipe to trigger). If making the parameters configurable is inconvenient, I would suggest portal name and attacker for the first 2 values, and some delimited combination of all parameters for value3. (IFTTT can't parse it directly, but can pass it on to stuff that can, like a Google Spreadsheet.) The event and key, of course, should be configurable.

The other option would be to make the custom callback destination more flexible so that it takes a template for the URL and body to post to the URL, but I am guessing that would be more work.

 

Check out the app trigger too...