# IFTTT recipe that catches ALL publishes from a device

**URL:** <https://community.particle.io/t/ifttt-recipe-that-catches-all-publishes-from-a-device/37444>\
**Category:** Integrations\
**Created:** [November 14, 2017, 3:05pm UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/ifttt-recipe-that-catches-all-publishes-from-a-device/37444 "2017-11-14T15:05:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![jaza\_tom](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/community.particle.io/jaza_tom/32/11323_2.png) [@jaza\_tom](https://community.particle.io/u/jaza_tom)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2017, 3:05pm UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/ifttt-recipe-that-catches-all-publishes-from-a-device/37444/1 "2017-11-14T15:05:45Z")

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This is the error that I am getting on some of my IFTTT recipes.

 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/particle/original/2X/a/ac8ecf8f8632ed42bdd05445a188df6d1a9aaccc.png)

As you can see, some recipes work fine but others do not. For example, the Pemba003 device recipes: one works and one doesn’t.

Here’s the recipe that works:

 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/particle/original/2X/2/208b296ab703259e17616379374664e96341998b.png)

And here’s the one that doesn’t:

 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/particle/original/2X/3/3710836dc3221d8820df539960fa9cac4df265d5.png)

Any ideas why one works and one doesn’t?

**EDIT**

I found out what the difference was that made one applet work and the other not work. The one that wasn’t working had no text entered in the _Event Name_ text box. This appears to break the IFTTT recipe:

![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/particle/original/2X/6/640c0c5db3be19031950d783c759c1cb8623263c.png)

So, I have changed the title of my question given this new information.

How do we catch ALL publishes from a device using IFTTT? Do we really have to create a separate recipe for each and every possible event name string that could theoretically be published by a device?

Given a publish event name length of 12, that would be 3226266762397899821056 recipes. I don’t think I have the time to do that…
