Tutorials for Zapier

Here's just some thoughts I was having about a similar topic/effort:

• Line Items - which apps take them as inputs, which spit them out as outputs and how to use them
• formatter hacks, like how to do an if comparison of text using spreadsheet like formula
• simple webhook calls to open APIs
• App capability understanding - aka reading the integrations page and knowing that the Trello app will not let you remove a user from a card.
• paths - that they are not exclusive (you can fork a zap and run the data down multiple paths)
• using google sheets as an intermediate when you need to run actions on each line item

@PaulKortman

Thanks! All great ideas I really like the angle of hacking external resources to make Zapier do more stuff - the external APIs, formatter stuff and Google Sheets are all stuff that I've utilised for my clients.

Regarding open APIs, do you know of any "Really useful open API" lists/blog posts kicking around?

It might be lame, but I use this to fire off multiple instances of a zap http://lorem-rss.herokuapp.com I've used a URL shortener API for a client (cannot remember which one right now) and some conversion APIs, here's a list of a few open/free:

29 Free Public APIs for Developers APIs (like: SYSTRAN.io - Translation and NLP) | RapidAPI -- the weather API might be interesting...

A collective list of APIs. Build. OOOO I like this one:

Charts, simple as a URL I've used tons of APIs from Google specifically Google Maps, I was able to do drive time distance calculation between two addresses (and it's free under a certain threshold) Seriously, the sky is the limit with APIs...