About Zapier Community
New to our Community? Get to know more about our space and how to make the most of your time here.

Code of Conduct Community FAQ's Zapier Common Questions What to Expect

Get Started With Zapier
New to Zapier? We have got you covered with our Zapier 101 Resources.

Zapier Essentials

Get Support
Have a question? Let's get you an answer!

How Do I...? Troubleshooting Code & Webhooks Developer Zone

Other Help Resources
Wait, there's more! Check out these Community sourced spaces for additional resources.

Zapier Help Center Hire an Expert

Zapier Products
Learn more about Zapier's new products.

Zapier Tables Zapier Interfaces

Zapier Reading
All of our best learning resources can be found here.

Featured Articles Show & Tell AI Hub Zapier Tools Hub

Learning Groups
Excited to meet other builders? Check out our interest areas full of doers, dreamers, and in-betweeners.

User Groups

Other Learning Resources
Some of our favorite additional ways to upskill your Zapier knowledge.

Zapier Learn Zapier Blog Zapier Webinars

Product Updates
Check out what is new and upcoming with Zapier with our regular product updates.

Product Updates

Early Access Program
Want to join Early Access? Learn more here.

Question

Webhook POST with cURL - Setup from Postman to Zapier

T
Userlevel 1

This works in postman to push a podcast episode from paperform to spreaker.

BUT when I try to setup a Zapier Webhook to do the same I can’t get the formatting right.

I’m about to rip all my hair out.

It appears the Spreaker API only accepts cURL so that is why I’m trying to use it. Here is my failed attempt.

Any help would be a godsend at this point.

Below is what I’ve tried and no matter what I do I can’t get past this error.

 

SUCCESSFUL SETUP IN POSTMAN CODE

curl --location --request POST 'https://api.spreaker.com/v2/shows/5615367/episodes' \

--header 'Authorization: Bearer 9802f8cd3d391b08bca0d22bdffef3516d23a508' \

--form 'title="EP110 Spacey Lives"' \

--form 'media_file=@"/C:/Users/Alex Hajicek/Desktop/Brownfootage.mp3"'

 

HOW I TRIED TO REPLICATE IT IN ZAPIER

 

This post has been closed for comments. Please create a new post if you need help or have a question about this topic.

10 replies

Troy Tessalone
Userlevel 7
Badge +14

Hi @Temoran 

Good question.

Try using the regular POST request option instead of the CUSTOM POST request option.

That has a Data section where individual parameters/values can be set.

Also make sure to obscure your API Key in uploaded screenshots!

⚡ Troy Tessalone - AutomationAce.com | Premier Certified Zapier Expert | #1 Zapier Community Contributor
T
Userlevel 1

Hi Troy,

It gives me the same error when I don’t use a CUSTOM POST and put everything into the data section like you said.

T
Userlevel 1

ERROR with POST Request - Shown Below


b

 

Troy Tessalone
Userlevel 7
Badge +14

@Temoran 

Try with this Payload Type set to the default value of “form”.

 

⚡ Troy Tessalone - AutomationAce.com | Premier Certified Zapier Expert | #1 Zapier Community Contributor
T
Userlevel 1

@Troy Tessalone Awesome that worked! But now that last piece, handling the MP3 Portion, as you see in postman 

I need to include the @ symbol before leaving the link to the location of the uploaded audio file to push it into spreaker.

 

How can I get that setup properly in the form view?

This is why I tried to use a custom code block at first.

 

--form 'media_file=@"https://s3.amazonaws.com/pf-user-files-01/u-96986/uploads/2022-08-16/8423r4s/EP100%20New%20Skunk%20Ape%20Documentary%20-%20Stacy%20Brown%201.mp3"'

 

 

Troy Tessalone
Userlevel 7
Badge +14

@Temoran 

Try adding the static @ value to the the start.

 

⚡ Troy Tessalone - AutomationAce.com | Premier Certified Zapier Expert | #1 Zapier Community Contributor
T
Userlevel 1

@Troy Tessalone 

 

Didn’t Work

Didn’t Work

Didn’t Work

 

Troy Tessalone
Userlevel 7
Badge +14

@Temoran 

Try putting quotes around the file URL

e.g. @“URL”

Sometimes it takes trial and error along to figure out what will work

 

⚡ Troy Tessalone - AutomationAce.com | Premier Certified Zapier Expert | #1 Zapier Community Contributor
A

Hi @Troy Tessalone 

I am also doing similar action but seems i also get a failed response of “media_file:Required”. Just as you indicated i tried @”URL” but failed. below is the curl request the spreaker api expects:

curl -X POST -H "Authorization: Bearer OAUTH-TOKEN" -F media_file=@audio.mp3 -F "title=Daily News" https://api.spreaker.com/v2/shows/1/episodes

it is to note that it is designed for locally available files (which is working fine) but I have a case when the file is at a server. Also as you can see both the file and title goes into the “-F” argument. When we put the file url in the “Files” field then again it throws a “title:Required” even though it is there in data payload. Thanks in advance.

Troy Tessalone
Userlevel 7
Badge +14

@Temoran 

Also try w/o the @ symbol since the file is hosted online and make sure the link is to a publicly available file.

⚡ Troy Tessalone - AutomationAce.com | Premier Certified Zapier Expert | #1 Zapier Community Contributor
Terms & Conditions