The visits/bots that follow IFTTT

[dougwilson]

I thought I'd try ifttt. As soon as it kicked in my site was simply swarmed by bots. Lots of amazonaws bots, trendiction... a whole bunch of not people. I was wondering if anyone else has experienced this. At the moment I'm thinking the ease of automation is not worth the staring at logs and ballooning stats

[not2easy]

For those who might not be familiar with IFTTT, it's a free applet scripting app for Android and iOS that runs little "If This Then That" scripts hence the IFTTT name.

For it to run these scripts, it needs to send out instructions and perform tasks. I'd guess it relies a lot on various bots and daemons to keep things all updated, synchronized and logged. What you're seeing sounds like a significant downside.

[dougwilson]

After watching: bots and others (some may be real people) are coming from sites that IFTTT posts to; social sites, Facebook etc

How this comes about exactly... not sure. Somebody made an ifttt applet to track ifttt applets...?

Loads of crap traffic from vodafone India... I may try it without the facebook variable