Hi, Nice work! When I wrote the original (in PHP), I was sorely tempted to do it in node, but thought that PHP would be be better suited because wordpress uses that. Nice to have some choice around :)
-- Abhay Rana http://about.me/n3m0 On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 5:48 AM, Ken <[email protected]> wrote: > > Nothing profound here, but might be of interest to the hardware > hacker/home automation geeks in the crowd. I've been playing around with > internet connected devices a lot recently (it's actually my day job > now<http://www.snupi.com/>) > and so have been playing with the various channels available on IFTTT, aka > IF This Then That (http://ifttt.com), which include some cool hardware > like the Philips HUE bulbs and Belkin's WeMo stuff. Ironically despite > being very hacker friendly in conception IFTTT doesn't actually make it > easy to invoke arbitrary code, but some clever folks had figured out how to > hack in a webhook proxy in via the existing WordPress integration. I've > ported their PHP version to node and it is available here: > > https://github.com/femto113/node-ifttt-webhook > > Once running on a (public) server, this service allows you to activate the > WordPress channel and then invoke almost any URL via a recipe. Running in > your DMZ you could then use it to hit stuff within your local network, > which is essentially how I'm using it. Feel free to try it out and post > any issues on Github. > > On a side note I find this kind of an interesting showcase for node, since > the whole thing is only about 50 LOC (about 100 if you include the test > case). The test actually fires up it's own little http server to verify > that the webhook is being called, I can't even really wrap my head around > how I'd write that sort of test in another system. > > --Ken > > > > > > > -- > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "nodejs" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
