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Google scraping for dummies :-)

We get a lot of requests to scrape Google and we have had to turn them away because it's just so difficult for even an experienced programmer to overcome Google's defences. So we decided to do it ourselves. Very excited. We hope big things will come off it. Watch this space in the next few days. Sorry for this post. I just had to tell someone.

RBaileyBeginner

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How do we view a JSON file that has been formatted from the payload we created in the UI?

Is it possible to see the JSON that is formatted from Payload that we create in the UI? I have a fairly large amount of data I need to post to an API. I am getting a success message when I run the test but I don’t have any indication of what the actual JSON looks like or if it is formatted properly. I would like to be able to verify it. It is a third party API so I don’t have visibility into it from their end.Thanks,Rhonda Bailey

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Oauth2 error: Zapier could not connect to your account. The 'state' parameter was provided but appears incorrect.

I am trying to integrate zapier with our crm application.Am getting this error in oauth2 : Error from zapier oauthCan you please help me with the same?I think this issue is similar to But I couldn’t find any answer in this post.

lazydaveBeginner

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OAuth2 redirect url changed after successful submission

After submission to beta, the client redirect url is changed. During internal testing this was https://zapier.com/dashboard/auth/oauth/return/AppXXXXXCLIAPIIt has now appears to have been changed from AppXXXXXXCLI to the name of my integration I see this entry in the admin pages 2022-04-18 17:06:43 xxx@zapier.com consistent key changed Old Key = AppXXXX; New Key = XXXXXX Is this expected? I dont see reference to this in the docs. Am I missing something? Will the previous app key be used for testing and the new one used for live? Yours confused….

jeffernstBeginner

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Search Action code to return a matching record versus an array of records

I’ve had good luck getting code tips from the brilliant people in this community so here goes.I’m building a Search Action for an app which has an API with only two GET endpoints, one that gets all records for an object and one that gets a record by ID. I want this Action to find and return the record that matches a field in the my trigger, and if not found, create a new record.Here’s my current API request, which returns all records for the object in an array.Rather than returning all the records, I’d like it to parse the results to find the record in which the field “fruit” matches an input field “fruit” that will contain value “banana” that will come from the trigger, and return only that record (or even just the id of that record since that is all I need in subsequent steps). If no matching record is found with banana as the fruit, I want it to return whatever result will then allow it to use the Create Action that I will have paired with this Search Action.

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App Integration Empty Values

Hello,I'm new to Zapier and I'm trying to create an App. Everything is working fine for now, but I tried to connect with a different app to test my application (Elastic Email), while my action is running, {{bundle.inputData.subscriber_name}} data comes to the field I set null by default.Elastic Email variables like that; I choose title variable as subscriber name in my app; When I create new contact in Elastic Email account, my app save it like that; Subscriber Name is not required in my app, I’ve tried to enter empty data but it save Zapier’s variable as data. My subscriber name input setting like that; Whats wrong on my setup?Regards.

leonardo-pieraccioliBeginner

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Does bundle.inputData.brands count as an array?

I made an integration to retrieve products from my API, elaborate them and pass them to whatever action a user wants. For testing i made a Zap that loads all the product’s information in a row of a google spreadsheet.From the CLI in local the testing always works. The input fields with the filters are defined as follow :inputFields: [{key: 'respect_all_filters',label: 'Respect all filters',helpText: 'Would you like to import every product that respect ALL filters? Select false if for example you want to import all product with a certain brand AND all product with a certain category but not the same brand.',type: 'boolean',default: 'false',required: true},{key: 'brand',label: 'Brand',helpText: 'Choose the brand of the products you want to import. Leave it empty if you do not want to filter.',required: false,list: true},{key: 'category',label: 'Category',helpText: 'Choose the category of the products you want to import. Leave it empty if you do not want to filter.',required: false,list:

vanessaBeginner

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Issue with the client id necessary to embed Zapier on my website

The issue: On March the 31st the Client ID for the app I am developing has been issued. Zapier states it only takes 24h to be generated but we haven't received an answer yet. Is it because the app needs to be published first? Or did something go wrong and I am not aware of it?

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Creating a Trigger, getting error : Only absolute URLs are supported at getNo

Hello,I have built a few a new Trigger in the developers site. It should catch a json blob and then process it with java script. I can see the json blob in the monitoring tool but i get the below error Only absolute URLs are supported at getNo Here is the Java Script code. Perform List code const options = { url: 'https://hooks.zapier.com/hooks/catch/11485728/b8ey89i/', method: 'POST', headers: { 'Accept': 'application/json' }, params: { }, body: { }}return z.request(options) .then((response, body) => { response.throwForStatus(); const results = response.json; // You can do any parsing you need for results here before returning them return results; }); Perform //return [bundle.cleanedRequest];const applicant = JSON.parse(`${bundle.rawRequest}`);const answers = applicant['answers'];const convertAnswersArrayToObject = (acc, val) => ({...acc, [val.id]:val.value});const answersObject = applicant['answers'].reduce(convertAnswersArrayToObject, {});return ({

Barış YıldırımBeginner

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Legacy web builder async functions

Hello, We're trying to add async await functions to our scripts.I need help from developers.Is it possible to add async await functions to legacy web builder script?If not we tried to move our application from legacy web builder to zapier CLI and even if everything is remained same, we faced with an error. Is there a way to transfer existing app from web builder to CLI?

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Can I build a zap action that takes in data and converts that data to a defined JSON schema?

I use software that allows edits to data objects via a JSON import function. It doesn't have an API for this import for various reasons that aren't changing for a while.I'd like to build a zapier action that can receive data from other tools and then reformat that data into our JSON data schema. Then I'd connect that action to a dropbox (or other cloud storage service) file download zap.This is possible to do with a dropbox write to a new txt file zap. That requires knowing how to carefully format a json file in the text editor and would be difficult for others so, I don't want to do that.Is it possible to build a Zap Action for my tool on the Zapier Dev Platform that does this? My plan would be to build this action and then share it with other people in my professional organization so they can hook up their own tools as well and I don't have to support each individual implementation.

talalBeginner

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Using Zapier platform, i created two triggers for two separate Zap, first one is working but another one is not working.

I have invited user private Zap platform app, i created two triggers for two separate zap 1 is for getting newly created user, and 2nd one for getting updated user data.the 2nd trigger is not working even not show any zap history for it.when i create zap and test, it is working during test data.the webhook looks like this when REST hook subscription.https://hooks.zapier.com/hooks/standard/11942825/58942b0360a7466890c75e6894468332/

sociabble_devBeginner

asked in Error Handling

Show custom error message in case of 400 error code

Hello,I'm trying to display a custom error message to the user when a service call returns a 400 error.Indeed, our services return a 400 error code with a specific message.Example:{"errors":{"":["There should have only one occurrence of each language: fr 2 occurrences","There should have only one default language in Contents"]},"type":"https:/ /tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#section-6.5.1","title":"One or more validation errors occurred.","status":400,"traceId":"00-367e5cbb1a26ddb093fc31b10d23115c-53881c67df805217-00 "} In case of error, the user sees only the title content. (only Admin can see the entire content result on the monitoring interface)How can i do to show him the errors content? Thanks a lot for your answer.

barisyildirimNew

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Cannot refresh default values of input fields

Hello everyone,I have an issue in an action that I created via Zapier CLI.I can populate new fields by changing variables but I cannot change the default values of input fields.Here is a loom record that I recorded from zapier.Even though I have written altersDynamicFields: true, it doesn’t change input field’s default values, but it changes whether input field should be rendered or not.Here is the code that I have written.I fetch other inputFields from the inputValues functionHere is the input values function

Andreas.KBeginner

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Overwriting sample data for existing integration when new JSON data is inserted

Hello, we are trying to overwrite the sample data in the output of an existing integration. Whenever we insert new JSON data, after reloading the page the data is overwritten. Where are we going wrong? RegardsAndreas

Michael SchmidtBeginner

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Zapier Custom Action doesn't pass through data from a dynamic field select list

For an action I use a dynamic field containing a list of users (ids / labels). I collect the users via Rest API and they are presented in the UI.I defined the list in the dynamic field code like: const options = { url: 'https://<mysite>.ngrok.io/rest/1.0/<my endpoint>?expand=users', method: 'GET', headers: { 'Accept': 'application/json', 'Authorization': `Bearer ${bundle.authData.api_key}` } } return z.request(options) .then((response) => { response.throwForStatus(); return { key: 'coverers', label: 'Coverers for automatic reassigns', placeholder: 'Choose a coverer', choices: response.json.users, list: true } });In the API request for the action I define the "coverers" property and it is filled with an array of the size of the number of users I add in the UI. But the values are all empty objects [{}, {}, {}]. The code for this is:

Barış YıldırımBeginner

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Is there a way to send Async request at Legacy web builder?

Hello everyone,The question is simple.How can I use results from the first api call at the second api call by using web legacy builder?From the previous topics I have learned that legacy web builder is not promise aware, but please let me know if there is another way to do this action.All Best.

Maria RestrepoNew

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Change domain on a Zapier connection

Hi,I am new to Zappier and I created a zap to test the connection between my site’s wooCommerce to my Airtable app. Now that I finish testing, I change the domain of my woo site, and need to update my zap with this new domain. Is there a way to do this without mapping, or generating webhooks, etc again? Or do I have to everything do all over again?Thanks for the help!Have a great day!

OhMyMiBeginner

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Trying to create middleware from authentication

Hello,I’m trying to create Authentication middleware for bad status code response. I already try create new function called checkAvailability, it work but it seems like it will trigger everytime I turn on new zapier. also I’m trying to use z.request but I think I can’t do that. And also why it trigger twice?

Israel MimouniBeginner

asked in General Discussion

Dropdown with all the values rather than one value per row

Hi, I have to use dynamic fields for my integration, but when I use the Trigger, I got all the dynamic values in every row rather than one value for each row, someone can explain me how to do it please ??

asked in General Discussion

Resthook conventions via CLI

I’m getting started with the Zapier CLI and I definitely would rather use rest hooks than polling. As I’m going through the CLI tutorial I see the example for creating a trigger file and it describes the convention as using a folder named “triggers”. I’m looking at the “How to use resthooks” section of the CLI documentation and I’m confused about the folder convention and file structure of these subscribeHook and unsubscribeHook functions. Are these resthook functions supposed to be separate files or are these functions supposed to be in my trigger file etc? Are there any sample applications that implement resthooks I could take a look at to understand the structure? I’m a backend developer so I understand implementing the resthooks in our API but I’m a little stuck on creating the JavaScript part of the integration via the Zapier CLI.

venkateshBeginner

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Testing with a Zap containing more than 2 steps

I am developing a Zapier Plugin for my application as a part of that, I need to test a Zap which has a Formatter step between Trigger and Action and this makes the configured Zap to have more than 2 steps. And Zapier is not allowing me to start the zap because I have a free license and the zap contains more than 2 steps. As a developer, Is there a separate developer license that I can get so that I can test the above scenario or is there any other way for developers to test this.Regards,Venkatesh Taduri

vanessaBeginner

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Sharing a Zap containing action Code by Zapier

Hello, I am about to publish my app on Zapier and I’ve come across an issue regarding a Beta Action: the Looping by Zapier. The issue is that I cannot share the zap since it uses a beta action. Does it mean I will not be able to use that action even when my app will be public? Are Beta Actions not allowed in ‘production’??

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When do developers become partners and what analytics are available?

Good day, we are doing a study of web APIs and development platforms. We are looking at Zapier and other platforms. About Zapier, we have some questions. The developers who build integrations, are they partners at the same time? Are they only partners if they publish their integrations in the zapier directory? What are the analytics that developers and partners can access?

harveygrowformBeginner

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Friendly field labels / names - what format API response should I provide?

Hi folks,I am working on a Zapier integration for an online form builder. Each unique form for our users has lots of long, auto-generated field names.We have a trigger called “New form entries”, which polls our server for form entries, and comes back like this:[ { "id": "6209aee326baa600224d822c", "email_907058157108782": "test@test.com", "phone_589083232390193": "12345", }, { "id": "61fd629f19408200225e1893", "email_907058157108782": "test@test2.com", "phone_589083232390193": "54321", },]However, this results in end users seeing these really long, gross field names in the Zapier interface: My question: how do I get Zapier to display friendly labels to the user, whilst using the unique field IDs behind the scenes?I’m thinking of returning something like the following, but I need to know how to actually use “friendlyFieldName” and “value” in Zapier!-[ { "id": "62179ec5ab9daa0022df7d1d", "text_576692390099896": {

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