I used a combination of Yahoo! Pipes and IFTTT personally. I'm not sure how people are using IFTTT on its own. For me, I would do the data parsing on Yahoo! Pi

I used a combination of Yahoo! Pipes and IFTTT personally. I'm not sure how people are using IFTTT on its own. For me, I would do the data parsing on Yahoo! Pipes and prepare everything to be triggered, and then the actions would be performed on a service like IFTTT (where the instruction was to just post whatever new item came in the feed).