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Post to Slack when Wistia uploads a video

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How this automation works

Notify your team in Slack about new Wistia videos. The Applet runs when a new video is uploaded to your Wistia account and posts a message to the Slack channel you select. It's useful for marketing and product teams who publish video content and want immediate cross-team visibility via Wistia and Slack.

If
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Polling trigger
Polling Applets run after IFTTT reaches out to the trigger service and finds a new trigger event. These trigger checks occur every 5 minutes for Pro and Pro+ users, and every hour for Free users.
This trigger fires when a new video is uploaded to your Wistia account.
VideoId VideoName ProjectId ProjectName Duration UploadedAt ThumbnailUrl
Then
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Action
An action is the task your Applet carries out after the trigger occurs. It defines what happens as the result of your automation and completes the workflow.
This Action will post a message to the channel you choose in Slack.
channel message title title_url image_url

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8 triggers, queries, and actions

New video uploaded

Polling trigger
Polling Applets run after IFTTT reaches out to the trigger service and finds a new trigger event. These trigger checks occur every 5 minutes for Pro and Pro+ users, and every hour for Free users.
This trigger fires when a new video is uploaded to your Wistia account.

Get video details

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Query
A query lets your Applet retrieve extra data that isn't included in the trigger, so that your automation can include more complete or useful information.
This query returns the full metadata for a specific Wistia video, looked up by its hashed ID.

Get video engagement stats

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Query
A query lets your Applet retrieve extra data that isn't included in the trigger, so that your automation can include more complete or useful information.
This query returns current engagement statistics for a specific Wistia video, including play count and average engagement rate.

Search videos

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Query
A query lets your Applet retrieve extra data that isn't included in the trigger, so that your automation can include more complete or useful information.
This query returns Wistia videos whose names match a keyword search, optionally filtered by project.

Create video from file

Action
An action is the task your Applet carries out after the trigger occurs. It defines what happens as the result of your automation and completes the workflow.
This action will create a new video in Wistia by importing from a public file URL.

Move video to project

Action
An action is the task your Applet carries out after the trigger occurs. It defines what happens as the result of your automation and completes the workflow.
This action will move an existing Wistia video to a different project.

Post to channel

Action
An action is the task your Applet carries out after the trigger occurs. It defines what happens as the result of your automation and completes the workflow.
This Action will post a message to the channel you choose in Slack.

Update video metadata

Action
An action is the task your Applet carries out after the trigger occurs. It defines what happens as the result of your automation and completes the workflow.
This action will update the name and/or description of an existing Wistia video.

Create video from file

Action
An action is the task your Applet carries out after the trigger occurs. It defines what happens as the result of your automation and completes the workflow.
This action will create a new video in Wistia by importing from a public file URL.

Get video details

Pro plus icon
Query
A query lets your Applet retrieve extra data that isn't included in the trigger, so that your automation can include more complete or useful information.
This query returns the full metadata for a specific Wistia video, looked up by its hashed ID.

Get video engagement stats

Pro plus icon
Query
A query lets your Applet retrieve extra data that isn't included in the trigger, so that your automation can include more complete or useful information.
This query returns current engagement statistics for a specific Wistia video, including play count and average engagement rate.

Move video to project

Action
An action is the task your Applet carries out after the trigger occurs. It defines what happens as the result of your automation and completes the workflow.
This action will move an existing Wistia video to a different project.

New video uploaded

Polling trigger
Polling Applets run after IFTTT reaches out to the trigger service and finds a new trigger event. These trigger checks occur every 5 minutes for Pro and Pro+ users, and every hour for Free users.
This trigger fires when a new video is uploaded to your Wistia account.

Post to channel

Action
An action is the task your Applet carries out after the trigger occurs. It defines what happens as the result of your automation and completes the workflow.
This Action will post a message to the channel you choose in Slack.

Search videos

Pro plus icon
Query
A query lets your Applet retrieve extra data that isn't included in the trigger, so that your automation can include more complete or useful information.
This query returns Wistia videos whose names match a keyword search, optionally filtered by project.

Update video metadata

Action
An action is the task your Applet carries out after the trigger occurs. It defines what happens as the result of your automation and completes the workflow.
This action will update the name and/or description of an existing Wistia video.

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About Wistia

Wistia is a video hosting and marketing platform for businesses to upload, manage, and analyze video performance. Connect Wistia to IFTTT to automate notifications when videos are uploaded or reach engagement milestones, and to manage video organization and metadata from external triggers.

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Slack brings all your team communication into one place. Turn on Applets to bring important information into channels, quickly share photos, automate reminders, and much more.

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