nora

years ago I was interviewing for a position at Zapier, and ended up doing a bunch of testing with it, didn't get the job, etc

but I do remember that it's based on accessing site APIs directly, and that's something that according to various cohost staff folks is not currently stable. like, there's a cohost API, but it's not officially available yet, so anything you do with it may end up experiencing a breaking change. IIRC it's one of their priorities, along with the thousand other priorities, you know how it is. so you could probably connect Zapier to it by creating a custom integration but I'm not sure if it's worth doing before the API is locked down

you might instead have a look at cohost.py, an unofficial Python library, and also jae's post here about how they'd like bots to look. and there's also a #cohost api tag for ongoing talk and communications

so uh, the issue is just that cohost doesn’t have a public api. all the current api tools are libraries that have managed to hack together some sort of usable interface out of semi-private api stuff. you could prolly use those libraries directly using some python code or something but i don’t think you can really connect it to zapier or ifttt until there’s a public api. but it is on roadmap! i hope that helps. idk if you know python but i feel confident that you could learn enough to make something that works similar to cheap bots done quick but for yourself on cohost