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Ahtasham Ali
Ahtasham AliNew
asked in General Discussion
How to put file in body in API Configuration?

Hi - I am trying to achieve Upload file from windows directory to Cloud storage by using the Path of file in body but Zapier does not upload file on Cloud storage because  - API only accept the body file binary format and having the file and when trying the API on Postman by using the body as Binary and Select file from windows directory then API upload file on Cloud.But the issue is i can not find any option as Input type having the file or make the API body as Binary so i pass the Windows Directory path but API not accept this type of body.So please suggest me possible solution.Trying this Code from zapier and its not working where bundle.inputdata.data having the windows directory pathIf Put file by these setting on Postman then API Upload file on cloud 

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Alchemick
AlchemickBeginner
asked in General Discussion
Validate Rest Hook Subscription

Hi there, I’m attempting to set up a few rest hook triggers that require hook validation. I can see from a few previous posts/replies from @Zane & @ikbelkirasan that this isn’t typically possible, but the service I’m trying to work with (Keap) does support a delayed validation so I’m wondering if can be implemented in the perform.The hook subscribe response comes back as:{ "eventKey": "string", "hookUrl": "string", "key": "string", "status": "Unverified"}With Header: X-Hook-Secret and a verification code as its value. Per their API reference, they say to either verify with the initial response (which I know from your previous replies is asynchronous and not possible) or to use their delayed verification endpoint:POST to /v1/hooks/{bundle.subscribeData.key}/delayedVerify with the same X-Hook-Secret Header value and code pair.  (ref: https://developer.infusionsoft.com/docs/rest/#tag/REST-Hooks/operation/verify_a_hook_subscription_delayed).Is this possible to implement in the perf

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charlotte_anne
charlotte_anneBeginner
asked in General Discussion
New validation error after upgrading to zapier-platform-core 15.0.1

Hi, I’m experiencing a new validation error after upgrading to "zapier-platform-core": "15.0.1". Every search I have is getting the same validation error: additionalProperty “important” exists in instance when not allowed. I’ve tried going to the link to documentation displayed in this error message, but it give me a 404 not found. I’ve also tried throwing out the build files and regenerating them, but this doesn’t work either.Has anyone else run into this? Thanks,

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craibuc
craibucBeginner
asked in General Discussion
Use a Zap to update another Zap's credentials?

I created an integration for a vendor’s REST API. The primary endpoint searches for a driver’s record.The vendor requires that the account’ password be reset every 60 days.  They provide an endpoint to get the status of the account and another to change the password.Is there a way to modify the credentials of the integration, using the data that’s returned from the change-password action?  Is it just a matter of setting the `bundle.authData.password` to the new password in the change-password action’s code?

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adilalich
adilalichZapier Solution Partner
asked in General Discussion
Unable to set a custom username for the Test account in our app BreadButter.io during the public beta?

We are in the final stages of preparing our app for public beta, and there's a minor issue concerning the Test account. The username for the Test account needs to be 'integration-testing@zapier.com.' However, in our app, BreadButter.io (a Future Zapier Partner app), an invite is sent to the registered email where user can set their own password.Let me know what can be done about this.

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Meikandan
MeikandanNew
asked in Embedding
Could not Embed the Full Zapier Experience in web application.

I am trying to embed the zapier integration within my web application as mentioned in theis documentation - https://platform.zapier.com/embed/full-zapier-experienceBut when the page is loaded the Zapier is not embedded and am getting the below exception in browser console.Access to fetch at 'https://api.zapier.com/elements/zap-templates/?fields=id%2Cwebintent_url%2Ctitle%2Cservices%2Cdescription%2Csteps&limit=25&must_match_all_services=true&service_slugs=&categories=' from origin 'https://dev-app.mydomain.com' has been blocked by CORS policy: Request header field request-context is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Headers in preflight response.I have already added my domain in 'manage domain' section as mentioned here - https://platform.zapier.com/embed/faqsSo what is the issue here? Note - I have already added my domain embedded in Zapier as asked here -Zapier Full experience integration | Zapier Community

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jkirkwood001Beginner
asked in Authentication
Can't get 1st trigger to work for an API Key authentication - please help!

Here’s the recommendation I got from Galaxy Support (the vendor of the host I want to create a Zap for; note their API documentation):...I am pretty familiar with how API authentication works in general, which is why I was able to help troubleshoot the last step in more detail. However, this next piece isn't something I have worked on before, so unfortunately I am not able to advise on how to set this up in Zapier. This is the part where I would recommend reaching back out to Zapier for help, and I would be glad to advise on what questions you should ask them. Let's use the /users/list endpoint as an example. This endpoint will show you a list of users on the site, and is a good one to use for testing because it's straightforward and easy to verify the results. If you were to make a call to this endpoint in Postman or some other API client outside of Zapier, the actual request would look something like this:In this example, I am using curl, which is a command line interface for making

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garboleda
garboledaNew
asked in AI Actions/Zapier MCP
ZAPIER NLA Prices

Hi there,I have been trying to find some information regarding prices for zapier natural language actions. I was only able to find the zapier nla is free for partners and developers but will not for end-users after beta. What does this mean?If I am a developer requesting access to my users’ zapier accounts via OAuth, it means I am accessing my users actions, correct?Will these actions have a price? Any help is appreciated.

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benjamink9Beginner
asked in General Discussion
Invalid Paygroup Description / DepartmentCode / PayrollCode combination

I’m attempting to create an employee with a POST to /v1/employees using this body:{ "LegalEntityId": {{Legal Entity ID}}, "Prefix": "Mr", "FirstName": "Charles", "MiddleName": "Lutwidge", "LastName": "Dodgson", "Suffix": "V", "Gender": "Male", "BirthDate": "1944-04-01T00:00:00Z", "Ethnicity": "AmerIndorAKNative", "SocialSecurityNumber": "555555555", "MaritalStatus": "Single", "Veteran": "Yes", "Disability": "Yes", "HireDate": "2000-11-01T00:00:00Z", "ReHireDate": "2020-05-21T00:00:00Z", "EmployeeNumber": 12345, "AlternateEmployeeNumber": 1234567890, "Status": "Active", "DepartmentCode": 10, "WorkLocation": "Cincinnati", "JobTitle": "Accountant", "Type": "Regular", "PaygroupDescription": "Weekly", "Flsa": "SalaryExempt", "PrimaryAddress": { "StreetLine1": "4811 Mongomery Road", "ZipCode": "45212", "StreetLine2": "Building A", "Suite": "Suite 100", "City": "Cincinnati", "State": "OH", "Country": "USA", "County": "Hamilton" }, "HomeEmail"

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benjamink9Beginner
asked in General Discussion
Perform authentication in Jest integration tests

I’ve created a number of integration tests (using Jest) for my integration/app that require valid credentials for the tests to succeed.What’s the recommend approach to perform the authentication?  Maybe invoke the perfrom method of the authentication.js script in a before filter?  beforeAll(() => { // TODO: get a new access token // invoke authenticate.js?}); 

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Virtual Champions PH
Virtual Champions PHBeginner
asked in General Discussion
Creating a Webhook integration between Amazon's Delivery Service Partner Program website and Slack

Hi, is anyone here able to create an integration between amazon’s delivery service partner program website?I am planning to get notified through Slack every time one of my delivery associate accomplishes an onboarding task. Can this be done through webhook? I’d be happy to receive any suggestions on how to do this. Thank you!

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benjamink9Beginner
asked in General Discussion
Search-powered trigger

I’m trying to create a trigger that can be search, in this case it’s for employees.I created a simple trigger (find_employee_by_name):const perform = async (z, bundle) => { return [ { id: '507d7a07-9c5f-4d36-8280-aa4651c65977', name: 'Jane Doe' }, { id: 'c960fa85-ce80-448b-bd8f-392df5715f45', name: 'Mike Canine' } ];};module.exports = { operation: { perform: perform, outputFields: [ { key: 'id', type: 'string' }, { key: 'name', type: 'string' }, ], }, display: { description: 'Find an employee by his or her name.', hidden: true, label: 'Find Employees', }, key: 'find_employee_by_name', noun: 'Employee',};then referenced it in a create:const perform = async (z, bundle) => {// omitted for brevity};module.exports = { display: { description: "lorem ipsum.", hidden: false, label: 'lorem ipsum', }, key: 'update_employee', noun: 'Employee', operation: {

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DanielTuttle
DanielTuttleNew
asked in General Discussion
Field has inconsistent types, "list" in sample while "string" in output field definition

Hi there! Working on upgrading my company’s Zapier integration. We now have a “tags” taxonomy and when I’m setting up a Search action, they are in the response.While working through “Validate Integration” I’m getting the error:Field “tags” has inconsistent types, "list" in sample while "string" in output field definition Which makes sense, as it is a list. But when I go to adjust: “list” isn’t a type that’s selectable. I just used “string”, but want to ask what’s expected here. Thanks! 🙏🙏

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AGT
AGTNew
asked in General Discussion
How do I get clientid, redirecturi, and scope information to embed Zapier Facebook integration?

Dear Sir / Madam,We are trying to embed the zapier Facebook integration as mentioned in this documentation;https://platform.zapier.com/embed/partner-api#profile( /v1/profiles/me).As mentioned in the document ,we have to redirect the user to authorize your application. But while procuring a token we need to get client_id,redirect_uri,scope information.We could not understand where and how we could obtain this information.Could you share a request where we can get tokens for our account? As request in document ;https://zapier.com/oauth/authorize?client_id={client_id}&redirect_uri={redirect_uri}&scope={scope}Best Regards.

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benjamink9Beginner
posted in Testing
Testing framework disparity

I have converted a number of integration projects to CLI projects, using zapier convert.  I’ve noticed that they use mocha for their testing framework:{ "name": "dummy", "version": "1.0.1", "description": "lorem ipsum.", "main": "index.js", "scripts": { "test": "mocha --recursive -t 10000" }, "engines": { "node": ">=v14", "npm": ">=5.6.0" }, "dependencies": { "zapier-platform-core": "^7.3.0" }, "devDependencies": { "mocha": "^10.2.0", "should": "^13.2.0" }, "private": true, "zapier": { "convertedByCLIVersion": "12.2.0" }}If I start a new CLI project, using zapier init, it uses jest as its testing framework:{ "name": ".", "version": "1.0.0", "description": "", "main": "index.js", "scripts": { "test": "jest --testTimeout 10000" }, "dependencies": { "zapier-platform-core": "14.1.1" }, "devDependencies": { "jest": "^26.6.3" }, "private": true}Before I created the CLI project (using zapier init), I updated my version of zapier:$

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jkirkwood001Beginner
asked in General Discussion
Build auth using 'Bearer Token' authorization

Hi,I’m trying to create a connection to Galaxy Digital’s getconnected platform. I’m told they also use a ‘Bearer Token’ API key, which I have.I started with an API Key authentication with the following required fields, and even added the Header option suggested in another answer - did I get that right?  When I ran this and entered my 3 fields for authentication, I get the 401 error at bottom.Did I simply login invalid? Or is something wrong with my authentication?Thanks!JohnWe hit an error adding your new accountauthentication failed: The app returned "Unauthenticated.". What happened (You are seeing this because you are an admin): Stack trace: ResponseError: {"status":401,"headers":{"content-type":"application/json","retry-after":null},"content":"{\"message\":\"Unauthenticated.\"}","request":{"url":"https://ca.volunteerapi.com/api/users?Authorization=Bearer%20%5BTOKEN%5D&password= ****************** &api_key=f28ef87c-**********************&email=john%40johnkirkwood.ca"}} a

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Pavitrarakesh
PavitrarakeshNew
asked in General Discussion
Calendly to zoom and Mysql integration

Hi,We have a requirement that whenever the user is redirected to calendly app from our website, we have to fetch the meeting and participant information from any account the user has logged in and insert the data into our mysql database. The events created in the logged in calendly account should also be created in the zoom account they have logged in. The users may have their own calendly and zoom accounts. We have multiple clients and we should also fetch from which organization they have logged in. Please help ASAP. Thanks,Pavithra T

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Hristo Buyukliev
Hristo BuyuklievBeginner
asked in AI Actions/Zapier MCP
How do I find events by time, not by name using NLA API?

Hello,I want to find events using the NLA API.I want, if I receive an email, and if it appropriate, to automatically book an event. However, I do not want to book an event when there is already an event then. How do I find events in my and other people of the same organisation’s calendar?If I query the NLA API like so: “Find me the weekly sprint planning event”, it finds it no problem. However, if I query “Find me all events until the end of the week”, or even “Find me the event tomorrow at 11AM”, it find nothing. EDIT: I found an ugly, ugly hack. I guess Zapier, behind the scenes, is creating a “search term”, based on your query, and if you put a search term “*”, it matches everything. So you can query for “Find the events this week with search term *”. This is very ugly and depends on something Zapier has not exposed publicly, so it may change at any point.   

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DanielM
DanielMBeginner
asked in General Discussion
Pushing new app version from cli, not showing changes

Hi, I have a problem, when I push a new version of the application using cli, with changed urls for subscritption, triggers etc., then when I integrate with this new version of application in zapier, the url addresses are unchanged, why is this happening?

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DanielM
PixelNX_dev
PixelNX_devNew
asked in General Discussion
Connection creates even after api key was not validated using API KEY auth.

Hello there, Our team has creating new private app, We are using API KEY auth. All was working good but I was validating the api key from our api getting proper response codes from api. When i get 200 response code connection will be created and when i get error response codes, it shows me message that error occured, but then why a connection is created even it was showing error. I’ve tried handling this with error handler ( throw the error ), tried many things but cannot be able to fix this issue.  Here is the Code   the error handled here with 404 code. Even after error handling the connection was created.   Please help me to figure out what I am doing wrong here.Thanks in advance 

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hamza shah
hamza shahNew
asked in General Discussion
Zapier oauth is giving me 401 error invalid client id

Hi I am trying to connect to zapier using oauth v2 when testing the authentication it's success. but when i create the action it's giving me invalid client_id error 401  

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Tytila
TytilaBeginner
asked in Input Fields
_zap_static_hook_code

I’m using the CLI to create a trigger that accepts dynamic fields.It works fine, except that I’m finding bundle.inputData contains an extra field called “_zap_static_hook_code”.  If I send bundle.inputData to my API in the body, as I’ve done with actions that use dynamic fields, it causes my API to error because it’s not expecting that field.Can anyone tell me where this field comes from, or why it seems to appear in the inputData for a trigger but not an action?I have a workaround, using JavaScript decomposition to create a copy of bundle.inputData with that field removed.  But I’d be more confident about the reliability of my workaround if I understood why it was happening in the first place.  If this is some internal Zapier variable that’s getting exposed, then the name of the variable might change in the future and then my workaround would stop working.

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manuel.thomsen
manuel.thomsenNew
asked in General Discussion
API data handling questions

Could you please provide a detailed explanation of how API data that enters and exits Zapier is processed? Is the API data that Zapier processes strictly pass-through, or does it get stored at any point during or after processing? If the API data is stored, even temporarily, could you please provide more details on the following: a. How long is the data stored for? b. Where is the data stored (geographically and/or in terms of the specific database systems)? c. What security measures are in place to protect this stored data? d. Who has access to this stored data, and under what circumstances? If the API data is not deleted immediately after processing, could you please share your company's data deletion policies? Specifically, I'm interested in understanding how and when the data is deleted. Do you have any data minimization strategies in place? If yes, could you please share some details about these strategies? How does Zapier ensure the privacy and security of the API data

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smittym
smittymBeginner
asked in AI Actions/Zapier MCP
Zapier NLA Errors

I have been testing the Zapier NLA tool with Langchain.  I have set up a Slack message as one of my actions, and am using it with a MRKL agent.  I am having a problem where if I do not define a value for every field in the setup, but leave some of them for the AI to figure out, I get an error message stating, “Failed to execute action 01H499970A8VJYCQ0YVSRD43TJ with instructions undefined.”  When I fill in the fields, it works just fine.  Any idea why that might be happening?

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benjamink9Beginner
asked in General Discussion
Create a parent-child relationship between two triggers

I have two triggers, get_entity and get_project, that I’d like relate in a parent-child hierarchy.  I’ve tried to adapt X for my needs.I created the get_entity trigger:const perform = async (z, bundle) => { return [ { id: 1, name: 'Entity 1' }, { id: 2, name: 'Entity 2' } ];};module.exports = { operation: { perform: perform, outputFields: [ { key: 'id', type: 'integer' }, { key: 'name', type: 'string' }, ], }, display: { description: 'Get a list of entities.', hidden: true, label: 'Get Entities', }, key: 'get_entity', noun: 'Entity',};I created the get_project trigger:const perform = async (z, bundle) => { const e1 = [ { id: 1, name: 'E1 - P1' }, { id: 2, name: 'E1 - P2' } ]; const e2 = [ { id: 1, name: 'E2 - P1' }, { id: 2, name: 'E2 - P2' } ]; return bundle.inputData.entity_id == 1 ? e1 : e2;};module.exports = { operation: { perform: perform, inp

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