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Use POST to push notifications

Hi!

I use a lot the Custom Notification API in combination with IFTTT. This way, I can have a beautiful notification each time my favorites sites publish an article, for exemple.

Unfortunately, I have an issue when pushing notification to Join. As a French speaker, the articles often have specials characters (for example, é, è, ê, à, â, ô...) that cannot be rendered in an URL.

Usually, I would only have to encode them... But I can't, because they are part of the ingredients given by the trigger.

So, what could be interesting is the possibility to put the arguments in the body of the request (for example using POST). It would allow me to use specials characters, and it would still be possible to do with IFTTT!

What do you think? Is it possible? Also, if you have an idea to proceed differently with the current API, I'm open :)

Thank you!

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Doing POSTS is already possible :) Just use the same fields but as a JSON object instead.

But you can also encode URL parameters by using <<<>>> around them in the IFTTT URL. 

Check out this video where I do just that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu0NG2xeRDg

Hope this helps!

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