REST API Call Trigger

With this powerful trigger node, you can initiate automation by sending HTTP requests to specified URL endpoints. When setting up the REST API Call Trigger, you define the path, choose the HTTP method (GET, PUT, POST, DELETE), and create the complete endpoint URL.

REST API Call Trigger

How to connect 🔌

  1. Select the Method to trigger this API Call.
  2. Click on the button ‘Connect’ to get your endpoint URL listen to new data

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How to test 🧪

  1. Click on ‘Get Data’ button and make a POST API call to your endpoint URL with the data you want to use on this trigger.
  2. Select the data you would like to use in this Trigger and click on the button ‘Update Inputs’.

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Your data will be added in the default values of the flow inputs. You can now access this data inside the following actions in your Flow!

You can add more inputs by clicking on ‘+ Add input’ and You can change the Type of data if you need

REST API Call Trigger

How to use it 📝

Click the button ‘Ship’ on the top right corner to make your flow Active. Copy the URL and make an API call to test it! You can ‘Pause’ your flow after if you need.

REST API Call Trigger Use

You can use a tool like Hoppscotch or Postman to make an API Call to your flow and test it!

https://hoppscotch.io/ (opens in a new tab) or https://www.postman.com/ (opens in a new tab)

Once you do the API Call, you can check the Logs to verify the data you are sending is being received.

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Testing the Workflow

To test our our Workflow, let’s go to Postman. Add in the copied Endpoint URL and set the request method to POST. (Same as we had set up in the Trigger Node)

Add in the body and click Send! 🚀

REST API Call Trigger

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