How long does it take for IFTTT to notice that a trigger has occurred and for IFTTT to fire off the event? The IFTTT website is absent of any documentation.
IFTTT – How to Reduce Delay Between Trigger and Action
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Yes there is an (unofficial) way. I developed a tool for this. You can consult this post: https://grapeot.me/adding-a-delay-to-ifttt-recipes.html
Example usage:
http://lab.grapeot.me/ifttt/delay?event={EVENT}&t={DELAY IN MINUTES}&key={YOUR KEY}
{YOUR KEY} is the key in IFTTT Maker Channel. More details are available in the post.
Zapier co-founder here, for anyone else curious about how you might do this yourself, Github has really killer API docs which show how to use their API to read/create your gists. Its kind of annoying as you'll have to "poll" for new entries and compare them across time, but it isn't infeasible. Using a standar RSS reader like Google reader is a simple solution as you eluded to.
Further, this is a great suggestion, in fact I spent the last 30 minutes adding support for this. Its live now. If you have a Zapier account already, you'll need to add your Github account to us again to catch the new gist scope.
For convenience's sake I've even spun up a quick template that sends a POST whenever a new Gist is detected.
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via their learn more page