SNS2IFTTT

A sample AWS Lambda function to push Amazon SNS notifications to IFTTT via the Maker channel.

Here's a few customizations of this project to better handle specific events via SNS:

• CloudWatchAlarm2IFTTT for Amazon CloudWatch alarms
• AutoScaling2IFTTT for EC2 Auto Scaling notifications

License

Copyright (c) 2015 Danilo Poccia, http://danilop.net

This code is licensed under the The MIT License (MIT). Please see the LICENSE file that accompanies this project for the terms of use.

Installation

On IFTTT

1. Go to https://ifttt.com/maker and write down your secret key

On AWS

2. Create a new Amazon SNS topic, e.g. ifttt-maker
3. Create a new AWS Lambda function, e.g. sns-2-ifttt
4. Use Node.js as runtime
5. Paste the code inline from the index.js file included in this repository
6. Replace the iftttMakerSecretKey with the one you wrote down at step 1
7. (Optional) Replace the iftttMakerEventName with the one you want to use
8. Leave the default handler
9. Use a basic execution role
10. Leave the default memory (128MB) and timeout (3s)
11. Add SNS as an event source to the Lambda function
12. Choose the SNS topic created at step 1
13. In the options, enable the event source now (not later)

On IFTTT

5. Select My Recipes
6. Create a Recipes
7. Choose Maker as Trigger ('this')
8. Select Receive a Web Request
9. Write the Event Name exacly as is the iftttMakerEventName variable of the Lambda function (step 3.4 on AWS)
10. Select Create Trigger
11. Value1 contains the body of the SNS message
12. Choose whatever you want as Action ('that'), for example:
13. iOS or Android Notifications to receive it on your mobile (you need the IF app from IFTTT installed on the device), e.g. you can set the notification to SNS {{Value1}}
14. A Channel from the Connected Home category to have a visible effect, e.g. Philips Hue to change the color of your lights to blue
15. Slack to send a message to your team
16. Trello to create a new card
17. GitHub to create a new issue

On AWS (optional)

13. You can test the setup from the SNS web console
14. Select the topic
15. Publish a test message

Feedback

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