Webhooks

Integromat Updated September 13, 2020 07:45

Creating Custom Webhooks

Any application that is connected to the Internet and allows the sending of HTTP requests can send webhooks to Integromat. To connect such an app to Integromat, add the Webhooks > Custom Webhook instant trigger module to your scenario. When setting this trigger, click on the Add button next to the Webhook field and enter a name for the new webhook.

Determine the webhook's data structure

Once you create a webhook, you will see a unique URL that Integromat will listen for. The data sent to this address is first validated and then passed on for processing in the scenario. To enable the option to map items outputted from the webhook, Integromat needs to determine the data structure of the incoming payload so the other modules know what to expect from the webhook. That's why Integromat will ask you to send sample data to the displayed address:

There are two ways to supply the sample data:

• Generate a webhook in the given service/app where you have registered the webhook. Make a certain change in the service/app that will make the service/app call the webhook, like removing a file etc.
• Send the sample data via the HTTP > Make a request module.

If you would like to use the second option, follow these steps:

1. Create a new scenario with the HTTP > Make a request module and set it up like this:
   

   URL	url of the webhook
   Method	POST
   Body type	Raw
   Content type	JSON (application/json)
   Request content	raw JSON expected in the webhook

   
2. Have both scenarios (the one with the HTTP module and the one with the Webhooks module) open in separate browser tabs/windows. Open the scenario with the Webhooks module and click the "Redetermine data structure" button to make Integromat listen for the data (you don't have to unlink other modules, the data won't be used anywhere):
   
3. Switch to the scenario with the HTTP module and run it.
4. Switch back to the scenario with the Webhooks module. If everything went right, the data structure of the webhook should be determined and you should see a message "Successfully determined":
   
5. Click OK to save the data structure.
6. The webhook's items should be now available in the mapping panel for mapping to fields in the configuration of modules connected after the Webhooks module:
   

Queue

At the moment of delivering a webhook notification, there must be at least one scenario that listens for this webhook data. If the scenario is not active, the data is stored in the queue. Once you activate the scenario, all bundles waiting in the queue will be processed sequentially.

Supported Incoming Data Formats

Integromat supports 3 formats of incoming data - Query String, Form Data and JSON. Integromat validates all incoming data against the selected data structure and then depending on the settings of the scenario, the data is either stored in the queue for processing or processed immediately.

If any part of the data does not pass the validation, Integromat returns a '400 HTTP' status code and specifies in the body of the HTTP response the reason why the incoming data failed the validation checks. If the validation of the incoming data succeeds, Integromat returns a '200 Accepted' status in response.

Query String

GET https://hook.integromat.com/yourunique32characterslongstring?name=Integromat&job=automate

Form Data

POST https://hook.integromat.com/yourunique32characterslongstring
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

name=Integrobot&job=automate

Multipart

POST https://hook.integromat.com/yourunique32characterslongstring
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=---generatedboundary

---generatedboundary
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="file"; filename="file.txt"
Content-Type: text/plain

Content of file.txt
---generatedboundary
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="name"

Integromat
---generatedboundary

In order to receive files encoded with multipart/form-data, it is necessary to configure a data structure with a collection type field that contains the nested fields name, mime and data. The field name is a text type and contains the name of the uploaded file. The mime is a text type and contains a file in the [MIME] format (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME). The field data is a buffer type and contains binary data for the file being transferred.

JSON

POST https://hook.integromat.com/yourunique32characterslongstring
Content-Type: application/json

{"name": "Integrobot", "job": "automate"}

PRO TIP: If you wish to access the original JSON, open the webhook's settings:

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and enable the "JSON pass-through" option:

Webhook headers

To access the webhook's headers, enable the Get request headers option in the webhook's setup:

You can than extract a particular header value with the combination of map() & get() functions. The example below shows a formula that extracts the value of the authorization header from the Headers[] array. The formula is used in a filter that compares the extracted value with the given text to pass only webhooks if there is a match.

See Mapping an array's element with a given key for further information on obtaining an array's element with a given key.

Responding to webhooks

The default response to a webhook call contains just a simple text, "Accepted" and the response is returned to the webhook's caller right away during the execution of the Custom Webhook module. You can easily test it like this:

1. Place the Custom Webhook module in your scenario.
2. Add a new webhook in the module's configuration.
3. Copy the webhook's URL to your clipboard.
4. Run the scenario - the Custom Webhook module should be waiting for the webhook call (see on the right)
5. Open a new browser window, paste the copied URL in the address bar and press Enter.
6. The Custom Webhook module will be triggered and the browser will display the following page:

These are default responses when the scenario does not contain the Webhook Response module:

If you wish to customize the webhook's response, employ the module Webhook Response. The configuration of the module contains two fields: Status and Body. The Status field should contain HTTP response status codes like 2xx for Success (e.g. 200 for OK), 3xx for Redirection (e.g. 307 for Temporary Redirect), 4xx for Client errors (e.g. 400 for Bad Request), etc. The Body field should contain anything that will be accepted by the webhook's call. It can be a simple text, HTML, XML, JSON, etc. It is advisable to set the Content-Type header to the corresponding mime type: text/plain for plain text, text/html for HTML, application/json for JSON, application/xml for XML, etc.

These are additional default responses when the scenario does contain the Webhook Response module:

Timeout for sending a response is 40 seconds. If the response is not available within that period, Integromat returns a '200 Accepted' status.

HTML Response example

Configure the Webhook Response module as follows:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Thank you!</title>
</head>
<body>
Thank you, {{1.name}}, for your request!
</body>
</html>

It will produce an HTML response that will be displayed like this in a web browser:

Redirect example

Configure the Webhook Response module as follows:

Troubleshooting

Missing items in the mapping panel

If some items are missing in the mapping panel in the setup of the modules following the Webhooks > Custom Webhook module, click on the Webhooks > Custom Webhook module to open its setup and click on the "Re-determine data structure" button:

Then follow the steps described in the section Determine the webhook's data structure.