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How this automation works
Post Perplexity answers to a Discord channel so your team sees the web‑grounded answer and cited sources. When you press the Button widget, the Applet asks Perplexity the question you configure (optionally with a system prompt and max tokens), receives a conversational answer and sources, and posts them as a rich message to Discord. Useful for sharing quick research, fact checks, or concise QA from Perplexity to your Discord community. Note: Customize the message to fit your tone.
If
Trigger ingredients
ShareURL
Latitude
Longitude
LocationMapURL
LocationMapImageURL
OccurredAt
With
Query ingredients
Answer
Sources
TopSourceTitle
TopSourceUrl
ModelUsed
PromptTokens
CompletionTokens
TotalTokens
ResponseId
CreatedAt
Then
Action fields
channel_id
message
allowable_mentions
embed_title
embed_description
embed_footer
embed_color
embed_image_url
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8 triggers, queries, and actions
Button press
Realtime trigger
Realtime Applets run after the trigger service notifies IFTTT of a new trigger event. Since IFTTT is notified proactively of new trigger events, realtime Applets normally run within a few seconds of a trigger event occurring.
This trigger fires every time you press the button.
New message in channel
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 message is posted in a channel you select.
New pinned message in channel
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 message is pinned in a channel you select.
Ask Perplexity
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 a conversational, web-grounded answer from Perplexity, along with the web sources it cited, for the question you provide.
List Channel Invites
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 all invites to a channel.
Search the web
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 top ranked web results from Perplexity for the search you provide, each with its title, link, and a snippet.
Post a message to a 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 send a message from the IFTTT Bot to the channel you specify.
Post a rich message to a 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 send a rich message from the IFTTT Bot to the channel you specify. Although most fields are optional, running the action requires content in the message body or content in at least one of the embed attributes.
Ask Perplexity
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 a conversational, web-grounded answer from Perplexity, along with the web sources it cited, for the question you provide.
Button press
Realtime trigger
Realtime Applets run after the trigger service notifies IFTTT of a new trigger event. Since IFTTT is notified proactively of new trigger events, realtime Applets normally run within a few seconds of a trigger event occurring.
This trigger fires every time you press the button.
List Channel Invites
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 all invites to a channel.
New message in channel
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 message is posted in a channel you select.
New pinned message in channel
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 message is pinned in a channel you select.
Post a message to a 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 send a message from the IFTTT Bot to the channel you specify.
Post a rich message to a 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 send a rich message from the IFTTT Bot to the channel you specify. Although most fields are optional, running the action requires content in the message body or content in at least one of the embed attributes.
Search the web
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 top ranked web results from Perplexity for the search you provide, each with its title, link, and a snippet.
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About Discord
Whether you’re part of a school club, gaming group, worldwide art community, or just a handful of friends that want to spend time together, Discord makes it easy to talk every day and hang out more often.
To add the Bot, the user needs to have the Manage Server permission. Note: Revoking Discord Permissions will not stop the Bot from running. The Bot needs to be removed from the server or have its permissions disabled.
Whether you’re part of a school club, gaming group, worldwide art community, or just a handful of friends that want to spend time together, Discord makes it easy to talk every day and hang out more often.
To add the Bot, the user needs to have the Manage Server permission. Note: Revoking Discord Permissions will not stop the Bot from running. The Bot needs to be removed from the server or have its permissions disabled.
About Button widget
Make buttons and control other services with a single tap. This service creates widgets that you can use from the home screen of your Android or iOS device.
Make buttons and control other services with a single tap. This service creates widgets that you can use from the home screen of your Android or iOS device.
About Perplexity
Perplexity is an AI answer engine: you ask a question in plain language and get a concise, conversational answer drawn from a real-time search of the web, with the sources that informed it cited inline. Instead of a page of links to sift through, you get a synthesized response you can read and follow up on, grounded in current information you can trace back to its sources.
Perplexity is an AI answer engine: you ask a question in plain language and get a concise, conversational answer drawn from a real-time search of the web, with the sources that informed it cited inline. Instead of a page of links to sift through, you get a synthesized response you can read and follow up on, grounded in current information you can trace back to its sources.