{"id":1346,"date":"2015-09-05T18:07:22+01:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-05T17:07:22+00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iso3200.org\/blog\/?p=1346"},"modified":"2023-10-17T13:48:39+01:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T12:48:39+00:00","slug":"automating-your-portfolios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iso3200.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/automating-your-portfolios\/","title":{"rendered":"Automating your portfolios"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Are you a photographer using multiple sites for presenting your work? Do you find updating all your profiles tedious? I certainly do, so in my digging through the ‘net, I found an excellent tool for that. (Broken in 2023)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Update, May 2023<\/strong>: IFTTT changed how their system works, actions used here are no longer available to free users, breaking the embedded links.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enter IFTTT<\/a> – short for If This Than That. IFTTT is a nifty tool that helps you pipe output from one source to another, and that’s exactly what I need. I primarily use Flickr for showing my photos, but I also use 500px, Tumblr and Twitter, and I would like to keep them all updated. This is where IFTTT jumps in – it isn’t able to update every service possible, but it helps a lot by keeping at least some of them in sync.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

IFTTT uses the concept of “recipes” – scripts that do some work. Each script has two “channels” – the trigger channel with its “trigger” (source), and the action channel with its “action” (destination). The source gets triggered whenever its condition is met, and fires the destination action – basically, you’re plugging the source channel into the destination channel. In my case, I wanted to keep my 500px account synced with Flickr. So I created a recipe with the Flickr channel as a source, with an “Any new public photo” trigger that gets fired every time I upload a public photo to my photostream. I used the 500px channel as the destination, which has only one available action – “Upload photo from URL” – to pipe my fresh Flickr uploads to 500px.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For quickly jumping into the stream, you can use the following recipes instantly:\u00a0Flickr uploads to 500px<\/a>, or the other way around,\u00a0500px uploads to Flickr<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n