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How to connect Google products with Make (Integromat)

Abiodun Eniola — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 23:23:47 +0000

This article will show you how to create your own project in Google Cloud Platform for free and a custom OAuth client. This is useful for connecting Google products, like Google Drive or Gmail, to Make.

Let's get started
Make sure your Gmail account is signed in on your browser

Create a Project

Visit https://console.cloud.google.com/

Note: Do not click "start for free" or "try for free"

Accept the terms of service and click Agree and continue

Click Select a project
Click New Project

Enter a Project name and create

Enable APIs

Open the left navigation menu and go to APIs & Services > Library.
Search for the Google Drive, click on it, and then enable it.
You can also search for Gmail and do the same.

Configure your OAuth consent screen

In the left sidebar, click OAuth consent screen.
Click Get Started.
Under App information, set the app name (You can use Make) and provide your Gmail address. Click Next.
Under Audience, select External.
fill all other information and click create

In the Data Access section, click Add or remove scopes, add any desired scopes (in this case, I selected all scopes)
Select all and click update, and then save

In the left sidebar, select Audience, and scroll down to Test users.
Enter your Gmail address (same as the Google Cloud account) and save

Go back to Branding, scroll down to the add domain section
Add make.com and integromat.com and then Save.

Create Credentials

Click Clients.
Click Create Client.

In the Application type dropdown, select Web application.
Set the Name of your OAuth client.

In the Authorized redirect URIs section, click Add URI and enter the following redirect URI.

https://www.make.com/oauth/cb/google-restricted
https://www.make.com/oauth/cb/oauth2
https://www.make.com/oauth/cb/google
https://www.make.com/oauth/cb/google-custom
https://www.make.com/oauth/cb/gooogle-cloud-speech
https://www.integromat.com/oauth/cb/oauth2
https://www.integromat.com/oauth/cb/google
https://www.integromat.com/oauth/cb/google-custom
https://www.integromat.com/oauth/cb/google-restricted
https://www.integromat.com/oauth/cb/gooogle-cloud-speech

Click Create.
Click the OAuth 2.0 Client you created, copy your Client ID and Client secret values, and store them in a safe place.

You will use these values in the Client ID and Client Secret fields in Make.

Establish the connection in Make

Head over to make and add a Gmail module
Toggle the advanced settings and enter Client ID and Client secret values in the fields, and click Sign in with Google

If prompted, authenticate your account and confirm access.

Now the connection has been established.
You can now edit your Make and add more modules.

Create an Audio Transcript with Amazon Transcribe

Abiodun Eniola — Fri, 24 May 2024 20:15:09 +0000

Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service offered by AWS

It enables developers to add speech-to-text capability to their applications. It uses machine learning models to convert audio to text.

Amazon Transcribe is a pay-as-you-go service; pricing is based on seconds of transcribed audio, billed on a monthly basis.

Step 1

Launch the AWS Management console
Launch S3 from the console
Provide a unique name for the bucket
Choose a region
Disable bucket versioning (We don't need it for this project)
Disable server side encryption
Block all public access for the bucket
Click on the create bucket See below images as guide

Step 2

Upload your audio file to the bucket

Select the audio file and copy the object URL

Let's create a transcript job that will handle the audio transcription

Step 3

Launch Amazon Transcribe
Create a transcript

Step 4

Specify job name
Select specific language under the language settings
Leave language as default
Leave model as default

Step 5

Paste the object URL in the input field
Leave the default output location
Leave the subtitle file format (Optional)
click Next

Leave everything else as default
Click create job

Our transcription job is done. Be sure the status reads complete

Click on the completed job
Scroll down to see the transcription preview

Congratulation! We have successfully transcribed our audio to text

In our next project we will learn how to translate our result into a different language

Deploy a Wordpress site on AWS

Abiodun Eniola — Thu, 23 May 2024 20:19:00 +0000

Introduction:
In today's tutorial, we'll explore the process of deploying a WordPress website on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) using Bitnami. This comprehensive guide will walk you through each step, from launching your EC2 instance to accessing the WordPress admin dashboard and starting your website-building journey.

Step 1

Log in to the Amazon Console and navigate to the EC2 Dashboard.
Create a new instance and give the instance a name
Browse through the AMI
Search for Wordpress by Bitnami

Under the AWS Marketplace and choose the WordPress by Bitnami as the Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

Step 2

Select the t3 micro instance type
Create a new keypair or select from existing ones
Keep the Security group as default
You can leave the root volume as 10gb or increase to 30gb (It is still within the free tier)
Leave everything else as default and click on Launch Instance

Once our EC2 is up and running

Select the EC2 you just created, in the details tab you will find the Public IP section
Copy the Public IPv4 address and paste in your web browser

Yes! Our WordPress site is now live

Now we need to login to our Admin Dashboard

PublicIPV4/wp-admin

Simply append "/wp-admin" to your Public IPv4 address in the browser address bar (e.g. http://54.211.145.2/wp-admin). In our case http://54.211.145.2 is the IP Address

Let's fetch the username and password from our EC2 Logs

Select the EC2 Instance
Click actions
In the drop down select the Monitor and Troubleshoot
Click the Get system logs

Scroll through the system logs until you see something like the image above.

The password and user name is in the logs

Return to the WordPress admin login page and enter the username and password obtained from the logs.

Now we have successfully logged in to the Admin Dashboard of our WordPress.

You can now install plugins and themes to customize your WordPress site according to your preferences.
Explore the wide range of options available and start building your dream website.

Conclusion:
Deploying a WordPress website on EC2 **using **Bitnami is a straightforward process that can be accomplished with just a few simple steps.

By following this guide, you've successfully launched your WordPress site on AWS and gained access to the powerful tools and features of the WordPress admin dashboard.

Now, it's time to unleash your creativity and build an impressive online presence.
Happy website building!

How to create a Linux Virtual Machine with Amazon Lightsail

Abiodun Eniola — Mon, 20 May 2024 11:09:19 +0000

AWS LightSail is a platform as a service (PaaS) that provides a simple web user interface to manage the servers and basic configuration around it.

It offers virtual servers, storage, databases, and networking, plus a cost-effective monthly plan. It’s designed to help you start small, and then scale as you grow.

In this Project, we will create an Amazon Linux instance in Amazon Lightsail. After the instance is up and running, we will connect to it via SSH within the Lightsail console using the browser-based SSH terminal.

Step 1

Login to the Amazon console and Launch Lightsail
Click on create instance

Step 2

Select a Region
Select an Availability Zone

Step 3

Select an **instance **platform
Choose the Linux/Unix platform option, and choose OS Only

Select Add launch script to add a script that will run on your instance when it launches. (This is optional)

Step 4

Select change SSH key pair to select, create, or upload the key pair you would like to use to SSH into your instance. For this project, we will tick the create new default key

Enable Automatic Snapshots - if you want to automatically create a backup of your instance image. (This is optional)

Step 5

Select an instance plan
Select the $3.5 plan (It's within the free tier)

Step 6

Name your instance
Leave the tag option as default
Select create instance

Step 7

Our instance has been created successfully, Now let's connect to our instance

Click the terminal icon, or the ellipsis (⋮) icon and click connect

Yes! Our Linux instance is up and running
You can now run some basic Linux commands and other activities like hosting a web server on it.

Make sure to delete the instance after running to avoid any charges.

How to launch AWS EC2 Instance (Windows)

Abiodun Eniola — Sun, 07 Apr 2024 12:01:08 +0000

Hello!

Today we will be launching a Windows EC2 instance using the AWS management console.

Step 1

Log in to the AWS account
Navigate to the EC2 dashboard
Click on Launch instance

Step 2

Here you will be required to input some details and make some selections.

Specify Instance name
Select a Windows AMI

Step 3

This is where you select your RAM, CPU, Hard disk etc

Select the t2 micro (it's within the free tier)

Step 4

Select an existing key pair or create a new one. For this purpose, we will create a new key pair
Click Create new Key pair
Specify the Key pair name
Select the **.pem **key type

Your new keypair has been created

Step 5

Here a default VPC, Security group and storage has been selected
Leave everything else as default for now.

Step 6

Here is a summary of our instance

Select launch instance

Our instance has been launched successfully,

Click view all instance

Step 7

Our instance is running

Now let's connect to our instance

Click on Connect

*Step 8 *

Select RDP Client (Remote Desktop Protocol Client)
Download the RDP file
Now we need our key pair so click on Get password

Step 9

We need to upload the key pair we created earlier

Upload the keypair
Click on decrypt

Now our password is available for use after decryption

Step 10

Launch the RDP client we downloaded earlier

Click on Connect
Enter the password we generated

Click yes

Yes! We have successfully connected to our Windows instance Now our Windows environment is ready

The Windows instance has been deployed successfully.
Now we can perform different Windows activities on it.

Remember to delete the EC2 we just created after this project to avoid being charged.

Host a static website on Amazon S3

Abiodun Eniola — Sun, 07 Apr 2024 11:29:41 +0000

Step 1

Login to the AWS Console
Navigate to the S3 and click Create bucket

Step 2

Give your bucket a unique name
Choose a region
Select the ACLs disabled (recommended)
Turn off block all public access (Note: this is not a good practice, but for this tutorial, we will turn it off
Disable bucket versioning ( we don't need it for now)
Enable the server-side encryption and choose the Amazon S3-managed keys (SSE-S3) encryption type
Leave everything as default and click Create Bucket.

Step 3

Now that our bucket has been created

Click on the bucket we just created.
Let's upload our website file to the bucket

Now that our website file has been uploaded successfully. Let's make a few setting

Step 4

Click on the properties tab and scroll down
At the Static website hosting option, click edit to change the settings

Enable the static website hosting
Select host a static website as the hosting type
Input "Index.html" to specify the home or default page of the website.
Input "error.html" if you have an error page or leave it (It's optional) and save changes.

Step 5

Click the permission tab, we need to change some settings to enable our website to be accessed publicly
Scroll to the bucket policy and click edit

Now let's copy the blow policy and paste it into our text box and replace the bucket name with our own

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Sid": "PublicRead",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Principal": "*",
            "Action": [
                "s3:GetObject",
                "s3:GetObjectVersion"
            ],
            "Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::bucket-web-app00/*"
        }
    ]
}

Click on save. Our bucket is now public and can be accessed by everyone

Step 6

Let's go back to the properties tab
Navigate to the static website hosting option
Copy the URL or click on the link to access our website

Viola! Our website is up and running

Congratulations! We have just successfully hosted our static website on AWS S3.

How to Deploy a WordPress Website on AWS in 5 minutes

Abiodun Eniola — Sun, 07 Apr 2024 11:17:35 +0000

Get your website up and running in 5 minutes with these few steps

Let's get started!

Step 1

Login to the Amazon console and Launch Lightsail
Click on Create instance

Step 2

Select a Region
Select an Availability Zone

Step 3
Choose an instance image

Select Linux/Unix as the platform.
Select WordPress as the blueprint.

Step 4

Choose an instance plan

Step 5

Specify a name for the instance
Click on create instance

Our instance has been launched successfully

Step 6

Let's connect to our instance
Choose the SSH quick-connect icon for your WordPress instance.

After the browser-based SSH client window opens,

Enter the following command to retrieve the default application password:

cat $HOME/bitnami_application_password

Keep the password displayed on the screen. You use it later to sign in to the admin dashboard of your WordPress website

Step 7

Let's sign in to the admin console of WordPress
Copy the link below to a web browser

http://PublicIpAddress/wp-login.php

Replace PublicIpAddress with the public IP address of your WordPress instance.

In the username field enter "user"
In the Password field, enter the default password obtained earlier then login

Viola!

You are now signed in to the administration dashboard of your WordPress website where you can perform administrative actions.

Now the Wordpress site is fully deployed. You can install plugins like Elementor to start building your website.

How to host a Website on AWS Amplify

Abiodun Eniola — Sat, 06 Apr 2024 20:38:23 +0000

AWS Amplify helps developers build and deploy applications in minutes.
It is fast, simple and easy to use.

Let's get started
We are going to host a static website built with HTML & CSS on Amplify

Step 1

Step 2

Under the hosting section Click get started
Select deploy without git to upload the website source code from your local machine.

Step 3

Enter the *App name *
Provide an Environment name e.g Test, Dev
Select the drag & drop as preferred method of uploading files.

Step 4

Drag your website folder 📁 to the console and wait for it to be uploaded

Our website folder has been uploaded successfully

Click save & deploy and wait for some minutes for our website to be fully deployed.

Step 5

Deployed! Our website has been deployed successfully!

Click on the domain link or copy the URL to your browser The website is up and running.

Below is a screenshot of the test website

Please delete the deployed project after use to avoid being charged.

How to set up an Elastic Block Store (EBS) on AWS

Abiodun Eniola — Sat, 06 Apr 2024 20:23:03 +0000

In this article we will learn how to create and configure an Elastic Block Store volume and also attach it to an EC2 instance.

Note: The EC2 and EBS volume must be in the same availability zone.

We need to first create an EC2 instance
Log in to your AWS Console.
Navigate to the EC2 dashboard
Click on "Launch Instance" and enter a name for the EC2 E.g. Test Sever.
Choose an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) of your choice. E.g. Amazon Linux
Choose an instance type (Select one within the free tier)
Create a key pair or you can continue without a key pair (Not recommended)
Create a security group or choose the default one
Configure the storage as seen in the image below
Leave everything else as default and click on "Launch instance"

We now need to launch our instance and connect to it and proceed to create an EBS volume and attach it to our EC2

Let's create an EBS Volume

In the EC2 dashboard scroll down and click on "volumes" under Elastic Block Store category.

Click on "create volume"

Specify the volume type
Specify the size
Specify the availability zone (Same as the EC2 instance we created earlier)
Configure as seen in the image below.
Click on "Create volume"

Now Let's attach the EBS volume to the EC2

Select the EBS volume we just created .
Click on "Actions" and then click on "Attach volume."

Click on the instance and choose the instance you wish to attach the volume from the drop down (The EC2 created earlier will show)
Specify the device name for the volume E.g. /dev/sdf
Click on "Attach volume" to attach the volume to the EC2 instance.

It's time to connect to the EC2 Instance and mount the EBS

Select the EC2 and click on "Connect"
Connect using the EC2 instance connect Viola! We are connected to the EC2 terminal

We need to run some commands on the EC2 terminal

Use the "lsblk" command to list the available disk drives

Once the attached EBS volume has been identified i.e the 100G volume (As seen in the image)

Use the "sudo mkfs -t ext4 /dev/xvdf" to format the EBS volume.

Use the "mkdir" command to create a mount point directory for the volume.
Use "sudo mount /dev/xvdf /data" to mount the volume at the mount point directory we just created.

Yes! We have successfully mounted the EBS volume!

Now let us navigate to the mounted directory and create a test file to be sure we can write to the EBS volume

Use "cd /data" to navigate.
Use "sudo touch filetext.txt" to create a test.
Use "ls" to list the content of the directory to be sure the file we just created is there
You can unmount the EBS volume if needed by using the "sudo unmount /data" command

You can also delete the EBS volume by navigating to the dashboard

Select the EBS volume
Click on "Actions" and click "Detach volume"

Once you are done with the process, Please terminate the EC2 instance to avoid unnecessary charges

Navigate to the EC2 dashboard, select the instance
Click on "Instance state" and click on "Terminate instance"

Viola! We have completed our project.

We have learnt how to configure an EBS volume and attach it to an EC2 instance.