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Hi, I want to create poll-based triggers but the zapier documentation hasn’t covered this topic in detail. I want to know if Poll-Based Triggers are possible without modified_at/last_updated fields? I know we poll data in a reverse chronological order and fetch the latest data in that way but what happen to those API’s which don’t have any timestamp field?
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Best answer by ikbelkirasan
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Hello! What would you use instead of modified_at/last_updated fields?
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Hi,
BUT the trigger doesn’t “trigger” an event. I believe this has do with the fact that API I’m working on doesn’t have modified_at/last_updated field. Please let me know how should I proceed from here.
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I guess what I’m asking, is how can you poll a time based event when you have no time-stamp? I don’t think it’s possible.
Would be very happy to be corrected here if anyone else has an idea?
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Hi
There’s a drawback to this method though, when the item changes back to old state, the hash value will be a value that Zapier’s deduper has already seen, so it will filter it out and won’t trigger the zap.
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Thank you
My understanding so far:
I will try
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To answer your question, what type of trigger are you building, is it “{Something} Created” trigger? If so, this type of trigger doesn’t need timestamps, you’d just return the items the API returned. However, “{Something} Updated” triggers will need a way to create a unique id each time the record is updated so that it bypass the Zapier’s deduper. That’s usually done using updated_at timestamp.
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