Microsoft Flow: Push Sitecore tweets to Google Drive

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Looking at the above news, I thought of giving it a try. I have earlier used Zapier and IFTTT. So, wanted to check the usability of the app. Working on Sitecore events for quite some time now, I believe this product will be great to integrate

Below is what I was able to do in 5 minutes using Microsoft Flow.

For this example, I wanted to create a Google Drive file whenever there is a new tweet.

Being Sitecore fan, wanted to bring Sitecore somehow into the game. So created a very simple flow.

Had to wait few minutes before the action took place. I have registered for a free plan.

Below information is captured when a tweet is posted for #Sitecore hashtag.

And this is what got pushed into the Google drive file.

As you can see below, every tweet is creating a new file.

And this is what is available in the file contents.

iPaaS solutions are very powerful. Think of the above flow with traditional integration. Need to know both the APIs, handle Authentication and Authorization, Handle exceptions etc. However, we are able to achieve simple integration between SaaS based applications without knowing API or SDK and in less than 5 minutes.

Sitecore solutions being deployed to cloud and Sitecore SaaS offerings will open possibilities of using Microsoft Flow in new ways. With community contributions the systems that can integrate with each other will grow rapidly. Now, an interesting use case would be to use existing recipes from other iPaaS platforms in Flow (like IFTTT, Zapier)