Create a Dynamic IFTTT Recipe

In a Wolfram Desktop session, create a channel that will receive data from an IFTTT recipe.

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channel = CreateChannel["IFTTT", Permissions -> "Public"]

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Subscribe to the channel and arrange for accumulating up to 2000 meaningful words from incoming messages in a list.

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list = {};

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listener = ChannelListen[ "IFTTT", (list = Take[Flatten[{DeleteCases[#, "RT"] &@ DeleteStopwords@ DeleteCases[ TextWords[ Lookup[#Message, "text", ""]], _?(StringMatchQ[#, RegularExpression["^(@|http(s)?://).*"]] &)], list}], UpTo[2000]]) &]

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Construct a URL to use in your IFTTT recipe.

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URLBuild[listener["URL"], {"operation" -> "send"}]

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Create an IFTTT recipe that sends data to the channel once someone mentions the word "politics" on Twitter.

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Dynamically display a word cloud of the most recent tweets and see what is happening, up to the minute.

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Dynamic[WordCloud[list]]

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