String variable query in IFTTT

Apilio Use Cases
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Example 3: notify me if I won’t have water at home

My local water service periodically tweets streets that are going to be without water supply. These are always a list of streets that won’t have service. Since I can’t be constantly monitoring this service, so this automation below notifies me via email if my street name is mentioned in the tweet.

Applet 1:

  • If my local water supply service tweets
    • Trigger service: Twitter
    • Trigger: New tweet by specific user
  • Then store the tweet in a string variable

Applet 2

  • If my local water supply service tweets
    • Trigger service: Twitter
    • Trigger: New tweet by specific user
  • And only if the tweet mentions ‘Regent Street’
    • Query service: Apilio
    • Query: History of string variable ‘water_tweet’
  • Filter code
let str = Apilio.historyOfAVariableFromApilio.Value;
let searchTerm = 'Regent Street';
let indexOfFirst = str.indexOf(searchTerm);

if (indexOfFirst === -1) {
 Email.sendMeEmail.skip("Tweet wasn't about Regent Street")
}`
  • Then notify me
    • Action service: email
    • Action: email me with the tweet