​Create an account on DroneDeploy if you do not have one already.
Become a DroneDeploy Developer​
Request an API key by contacting developer@dronedeploy.com if you do not already have one.
To get you started, we have created a sample app. By deploying this sample app, you will learn to use every aspect of the DroneDeploy SDK.
The app you will be deploying will enable the following flow: 1. A user creates an export 1. When the export completes, an export complete Trigger will go off 1. The Trigger will call out to your DroneDeploy Function 1. The DroneDeploy Function will call to your IFTTT webhook endpoint
First clone the open-sourced app-examples repository
$ git clone git@github.com:dronedeploy/app-examples.git
We use the serverless platform for deployment. You will need to install this globally
$ npm install -g serverless
Navigate to the IFTTT example
$ cd app-examples/IFTTT
Install the dependencies. This will install the dronedeploy-cli, which is a development tool to make App Development much easier.
$ npm install
Add your API key to dronedeploy-cli​
$ serverless config credentials --provider=dronedeploy --key=<YOUR API KEY>
Navigate to the settings page and add the IFTTT/app
directory to the App Zone
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Go to the App Market Installed Apps tab to see your new app listed. Go and change the name from app
to IFTTT
and copy the App ID.
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Press the "Deploy For Mobile Testing" button to checkpoint your app and to make the app available on mobile.
Copy the App ID into your serverless.yml
file in the app
field
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Now you are ready to deploy the app with the following command
$ serverless deploy
Note that this will do the following: 1. Deploy the defined ifttt-webhook
Function 1. Deploy the Export Complete Function Trigger 1. Deploy the webhook-table
Datastore table
The deployment should look something like this:
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If everything went according to plan, you should now have a Datastore table, a DroneDeploy Function, and a Trigger definition!
​Sign up for an IFTTT account if you do not have one already.
Go to the IFTTT webhooks service page and activate it by pressing Connect
, then generate a new webhook endpoint by going into the documentation
page. Enter in dronedeploy
as the event name and copy the webhook endpoint.
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The URL should look something like this
https://maker.ifttt.com/trigger/dronedeploy/with/key/calBarcsa1DcqmSN9_D1acb
Copy and paste your URL into your App UI and press save. This will save this URL by passing the URL string to the ifttt-webhook
function, which will then save the URL to the defined webhook-table
Datastore table. Try refreshing the page and opening the app - you will notice that your URL is still there and now persisted in your Datastore!
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​Create an Applet on IFTTT using your new IFTTT webhook service as the trigger. Don't forget to select the Webhook at the service and set the event to dronedeploy. In this GIF, we are showing an Applet that emails you when a trigger fires. You can find more documentation about how to build an IFTTT Applet here.
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Now if you perform a DroneDeploy map export, you should get an event in IFTTT! When an event triggers, you will see that your IFTTT Applet ran under the activity tab.
Learn more about how to extend the sample app or build your own from scratch here.