• Introduction

Hello everybody, today I wanted to share a tool that most people probably know, but it's always a benefit to do an post on it.

Make a simple Webhook request to each post on Dev.to.

The system is very simple, it will retrieve the RSS feed from dev.to and every time there is a new entry, IFTTT will start and send a message in Webhook.

In this example, my Webhook output is on Discord, a communication platform that is widely used by players, developers, communities and other people.

• Setup

1) To get started, log in or create your IFTTT account.
2) Start to click on New Applet
3) If RSS Feed ▶️ New Feed Item ▶️ In the Feed URL, put 'https://dev.to/feed' or 'https://dev.to/rss' ▶️ Create trigger
4) then Webhooks ▶️ Make a web request.

For the webhooks settings on Discord, here is an example to do :

For your body, you can send an embed message on Discord.

{ 
    "embeds": [{ 
        "author":{ 
            "name":"{{EntryTitle}}", 
            "url":"{{EntryUrl}}" 
            }, 
            "footer":{ 
                "text":"Auteur : {{EntryAuthor}}", 
                "icon_url":"https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/377205421640908810/526770363456159768/apple-icon-5c6fa9f2bce280428589c6195b7f1924206a53b782b371cfe2d02da932c8c173.png" 
            }, 
            "color":1776669 
    }] 
}

If you don't want an embed, but only a simple message with the title and URL of the new post :

{"content": "[{{EntryTitle}}]({{EntryUrl}}) was posted by {{EntryAuthor}}"}

• Example of the output of Webhook on Discord

And here is an example that posts every day on my server, being a few developers on it, we like to have everything within reach as quickly as possible. And since it's the best way to communicate, whether written or vocal, I preferred to make a simple IFTTT condition in order to get the RSS feed and put it in.

📷 I also made another IFTTT system, this one was already prepared on the platform. Every day, once in the morning and once in the evening, the Twitter account @Splash_Everyday tweet a photo from Unsplash.

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By the way, I'm looking for any RSS feed I could add to my list of Webhooks, if you have any, comment them just below, and I'll see if it can be useful!