Back to Leila
A few weeks in, Leila notices her playlist hasn’t grown in
days,
even though she’s liked several videos. Something stopped
working, and she wants to figure out how to fix it.
Troubleshooting issues with Applets
Here’s how Leila would investigate, using the playlist Applet that you have both built in Chapter 2:
- Check the Applet. Go to My Applets and open the Applet. Make sure it says Connected. If it does, the Applet is on, and you can move to the next check.
- Open the activity log. Select your profile icon in the top right, then My services, select YouTube or Spotify, and select View Activity. This feed lists what the Applet has done and when.
- Read what’s there. If nothing was logged for the period in question, the Trigger may not have happened yet. If a run shows up as failed, the connection may be the cause, since a connection can stop working when its permissions expire or the account’s credentials change.
- Fix accordingly. If the connection is the cause, reconnect the service. Your Applets should start running again once you do. Then check the log for a new successful entry.
Try it
Open the activity log for your own playlist Applet and find
the
most recent run. Seeing what a normal run looks like makes
it
easier to spot a problem later.
Good to know
Some Triggers are polling Triggers, which means IFTTT checks the service for new events instead of being told right away. The YouTube Trigger in your playlist Applet is one of them, so a song can land in your playlist a little after you like the video.
When you want to change an Applet instead of fix it, go to My Applets, select the Applet you want to change, and select Edit Applet. Each step has its own Edit control.