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If Gov Then That website, a project to promote gov open data by designing clever uses for government APIs. (Currently on hold.)
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Open Thread: Ideas for IFTTT Triggers #2

Closed gbinal closed 2 years ago

gbinal commented 10 years ago

Share your ideas for triggers, preferably with a link to the api or data that would be behind it.

gbinal commented 10 years ago

When a new farmers market is added near you.

konklone commented 10 years ago

Your tax return has been accepted. (IRS)

konklone commented 10 years ago

The federal government has closed down or is delayed. (OPM)

konklone commented 10 years ago

An Amber Alert has been issued. (?)

jpyuda commented 10 years ago

severe weather alerts (flash flood, hurricane, tornado, etc)

webmaven commented 10 years ago

A new dataset has been released (matching some criteria, such as agency).

webmaven commented 10 years ago

Muckrock has released a new FOIA response that matches some criteria (such as agency).

webmaven commented 10 years ago

A new WeThePeople petition has been created that matches some criteria.

webmaven commented 10 years ago

A Federal IT project has crossed some threshold of cost or time overrun, so send me a message.

API: https://www.itdashboard.gov/data_feeds

webmaven commented 10 years ago

Notify me when works enter the public domain. crickets

webmaven commented 10 years ago

Notify me when new additions are made to https://public.resource.org/

webmaven commented 10 years ago

Notify me when my IRS refund has been sent.

webmaven commented 10 years ago

Notify me when desegregation orders for my jurisdiction/district are lifted. See: http://www.propublica.org/article/lack-of-order-the-erosion-of-a-once-great-force-for-integration

webmaven commented 10 years ago

Notify me when there is a toxic release in my community.

webmaven commented 10 years ago

Notify me when a food item I have purchased has been recalled.

webmaven commented 10 years ago

Notify me when a bridge I commute over has not had it's scheduled inspection.

webmaven commented 10 years ago

Notify me when a security vulnerability or other flaw has been found for a medical device I have implanted in me.

webmaven commented 10 years ago

When Bureau of Labor Statistics releases new projections on occupations, send me a notification that analyzes the impact on my profession in particular (including my age, stage of career, and location) along with advice on training, retraining, etc. available that would best take advantage of or ameliorate that impact as warranted.

Also, digest the data and republish it in a form useful to school career counselors.

gbinal commented 10 years ago
gbinal commented 10 years ago

Every time a new data set is added to data.gov

leahbannon commented 10 years ago

Cleaning up README file and moving previous ideas collection here:

rebeccawilliams commented 9 years ago

Hi all, I went to create an OPM alert for myself yesterday and found many IFTTT recipes have already been created with their handy RSS feed. (@konklone)

Same thing goes for the NOAA Severe Weather alert feed. (@jpyuda)

This makes me think the following:

gbinal commented 9 years ago

@rebeccawilliams - I'm not sure how readily we get on the official IFTTT collections page but agree with you entirely.

Let's start by gathering federal IFTTT recipes in this repo. I've started it off with the two you mention.

leahbannon commented 9 years ago

@stvnrlly didn't you run into problems with OPM's RSS feed the last time we had a snow delay?

stvnrlly commented 9 years ago

Yeah, I did, but it may have been a one-time thing. For some reason, the RSS feed didn't update until that evening, by which point it was no longer useful. It was my first time paying attention to it, and every time since then has seemed to work properly.

monfresh commented 9 years ago

Not sure if y'all are aware, but OPM has a mobile app that can send you push notifications, and you can choose what type of alerts you want to receive. It's available for all major mobile platforms: http://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/snow-dismissal-procedures/mobile-app/

rebeccawilliams commented 9 years ago

@monfresh Yup, I have that installed as well. :smile:

rebeccawilliams commented 9 years ago

Here are some Fed RSS roundups to help suss out what's already possible and where a custom IFTTT API would add the most value:

Re: 'Every time a new dataset is added to Data.gov', here's the Data.gov CKAN API for today and for 2015 so far -- it's a lot of alerts! I am exploring if we can get something going in Yahoo Pipes (a la Chicago), but we welcome any future IFTTT channels.

melodykramer commented 9 years ago

Send me an alert when a FEMA disaster is declared within X number of miles: http://catalog.data.gov/dataset/fema-disaster-declarations-summary

melodykramer commented 9 years ago

Notify me of the place where it rained the most in the US yesterday: http://catalog.data.gov/dataset/u-s-hourly-precipitation-data

melodykramer commented 9 years ago

https://ifttt.com/space <-- These are good and could be applicable to lots of things.

konklone commented 9 years ago

In addition to triggers, can anyone think of gov platforms that can receive events? The only ones I can think of (White House Petitions, Regulations.gov) both really require longform writing and it's tough to think of how they might be appropriate places for automated submissions from other services.

stvnrlly commented 9 years ago

USPS could have a useful event-receiving API, particularly the shipping label and package pickup ones: https://www.usps.com/business/web-tools-apis/list-of-apis.htm.

melodykramer commented 9 years ago

Good ideas in here: http://www.civomega.com/

ghost commented 9 years ago

Google has aggregated a variety of public alerts

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/860442/google-alerts-api

https://support.google.com/publicalerts/?hl=en#2366580

http://google.org/publicalerts

xocliwtb commented 9 years ago

USPTO patent filed, issued, expiring

jcfrench commented 9 years ago

Um, you guys are awesome, but based on the general ideas you are submitting, you are missing a fundamental aspect of how the government serves citizens. You are thinking of citizens as individuals, which is true... rarely. Usually, the concerns of citizens are merged into organizations. One of the main concerns of those organizations are government grant processes. The true killer trigger is when a government agency puts either a grant, request for proposal, or request for bid out on the street. Every agency has a slightly different way of doing these things... but IFTTT...

When Grant applications open... let interested and appropriate non-profits, local governments, and commercial entities know through new communication mediums. When a grant moves forward, has a hiccup, etc, IFTTT, let the potential Grantees know sooner.

Grants, Certification, Easements, Penalties, Industrial Policy changes, Contract Awards, etc. All of these organizations have legacy ways of interacting... Can we add APIs for the next generation of these organizations? How long will my Business Development Staff have to scrounge through dated government websites which are only sluggishly updated?

IFTTT... follow the expenditures of each agency, where is the money going? Is this agency Granting, Servicing, Regulating, etc... IFTTT depends on who they interact with directly. That's usually not an individual citizen. Could you reverse this effort for a second by determining where each agency is sinking it's money, and IFTTT on the ways money is supporting organized groups of citizens? (Put some data analysis on this first to inform your challenge space, and then brain storm) That might change your thinking and hone you into more relevant ideas, instead of nice ideas for a gal or guy with a smartphone walking across campus.

konklone commented 9 years ago

@jcfrench Your point's well taken, but bear in mind that we're talking here specifically about IFTTT channels/triggers, and not about what APIs are worth building around government services.

Grants, Certification, Easements, Penalties, Industrial Policy changes, Contract Awards, etc. All of these organizations have legacy ways of interacting... Can we add APIs for the next generation of these organizations? How long will my Business Development Staff have to scrounge through dated government websites which are only sluggishly updated?

Couldn't agree more -- 18F's first project is an API aimed squarely at businesses looking for contract opportunities. There's more work like this happening in the 18F, Presidential Innovation Fellow, and US Digital Service family.

Here we're just talking about making use of existing data and APIs to build IFTTT integrations. IFTTT is primarily a consumer platform. Organizations and businesses are, by and large, probably going to have the incentive and resources to talk to APIs directly, or use other more professionally oriented tools that sit atop those APIs to get work done, rather than an IFTTT channel.

But if we're missing something here, and there are some existing APIs in government whose IFTTT integration would benefit a business like yours, please do link us to them and suggest some ideas here.

deardooley commented 9 years ago
ocapweb-usgs commented 8 years ago

Create an IFTTT trigger to tap into the Social Media Registry (and allowing for the various API options...tags, agencies, etc). https://github.com/usagov/Social-Media-Registry-API-Documentation