Trigger-Action Programming in the Wild: An Analysis of 200,000 IFTTT Recipes
summary
Collected and released a crawl of 224,590 public recipes (sourced with Selenium with ChromeDriver), showing IFTTT triples from 67,000 in 2013 to 224,000 in 2015 and over 106,000 distinct authors. Key findings: strong growth, a long tail of ~16,000 unique trigger-action connections, heavy duplication (only 2.5% of authors post 10+ recipes, average shared recipes ≈1–2), and many popular but many one-off connections — dataset available at upod.io/datasets for further analysis.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:50IFTTT growth and data collection
- 3:35Key characteristics of recipes
- 6:24Trigger-action connections analysis
- 7:47Dataset sharing and future work
- 8:12Q&A session
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