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MarkK
MarkKBeginner
asked in Developer Discussion

Form post in Code by Zapier action

Hi!I am looking to retrieve a file from a New Form Submission in HubSpot trigger. I then want to chain a Code by Zapier action to submit a file from above Trigger as a form post (not json in other words).Can I achieve that as a Code step without any external node modules.Thanks in advance.,Mark

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Troy Tessalone
3 months ago
billfugina
billfuginaNew
asked in Developer Discussion

Invalid date formatted to Today

My CLI application/integration has several actions each with one or more datetime input fields. My QA team has reported that when they send an invalid date string, e.g. `2023-02-31`, it is converted to today’s date and time.I have put some console logging into the action perform function and confirmed that when the rawInput value is an invalid date, the input value is today’s date.I have been asked to treat invalid dates as an error and to halt execution.I have considered adding code that checks the input value and if it is today’s date, then inspects the rawInput to determine if the original input was an invalid date. I think this sounds much easier said than done.Is there an easier way to do this? Is there some way to get the formatter to not convert invalid dates to today?

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billfugina
3 months ago
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Mark JaskulaNew
asked in Developer Discussion

Need help with creating a new Zapier Integration using Dotnet Core backend

I have a Dotnet (core) application where I'm integrating Zapier. Now on Zapier's developer platform when I'm creating a new integration, the first step is Authentication where you have different types of auth, e.g. OAuth V2, Session Auth, etc. In my application, I authorize users and all the API calls using Dotnet's Identity Provider where I use User.Identity.IsAuthenticated to check whether the user is signed in and the Authorize attribute to verify an API call along with ClaimsPrincipal.I tried all types of auth provided in Zapier's developer portal but it fails. I would really appreciate some input about integrating Zapier with my application

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rkamm517
3 months ago
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deprecatedNew
asked in Developer Discussion

"Response needs to be JSON, form-urlencoded or parsed in middleware."

Hello,i’m currently working on creating a zapier app with the help of the zapier-cli.During the last step of authentication (“getAccessToken”), i successfully receive the ‘access_token’ in the response, but zapier throws an error, saying: "Response needs to be JSON, form-urlencoded or parsed in middleware.".The response from our backend looks like this: {"access_token":"CodeGoesHere"} and sends the Content-Type header `application/json`.What could be the reason for this error and/or how can i further debug/fix this? Regards,Daniel

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3 months ago
Ryan Powell
Ryan PowellZapier Staff
posted in Developer Discussion

Launched: The data you've been asking for!

No app can do everything on its own. The best apps are instead focused on their core features, then rely on integrations with dozens of other great apps to do the rest. That is what the Zapier platform enables. It brings the best of every app together.For this reason, you’ve made the decision to build a Zapier app. You launched it to the world and now receive a monthly newsletter that provides some basic information on the status of the app you built. But how is it actually performing? Are your users finding it useful in extending the power of your product? How do you know that you’re getting a return on your investment for building and maintaining an app on Zapier’s platform?Until today, it has been a bit of a black box. You haven’t been able to see how your users are actually using your app on Zapier. Today, that changes. I’m pleased to share that we’ve shipped a new “Insights” dashboard that is chock-full of data revealing how your app is performing. That includes new users, total n

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Ryan Powell
3 months ago
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monwhiteNew
posted in Developer Discussion

apartytheme postflow

I am working for a blogging website named apartytheme. Can I automate blog posts on website through any app? that would a alot easier and convenient for me.

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3 months ago
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SH1R3FNew
asked in Developer Discussion

How to send the response of a trigger into my action

I’m building a zapier integration with my app that has an actionthe action simply needs to take whatever response from the trigger and do something on it (I just need to send the response of previous trigger to the endpoint so I can manage it)I built the action and it works but I don’t know how to append the response of the trigger to it? the input fields look like it’s something the user need to enter but I don’t want user interaction I just want to send the raw response of the previous trigger?

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4 months ago
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RBailey_2Beginner
asked in Developer Discussion

Json data returned in Python code step

Hi,  I am putting together a “quick” POC for someone and I have a python code step that calls an api that returns the data in json format.  All I am trying to do is return the data to be used in the next step which saves it to a Google Table.  The json string should look something like this. {"game": { "di": "left", "gid": 2022200033, "hid": 1612709911, "st": "2023-01-01 20:00", "tz": -5, "vid": 1612709918, "zn": "ET", "generic": 0},"teams": [{ "ab": "IWA", "ci": "Iowa", "colors": [ "#0C2340", "#236192", "#78BE21", "#9EA2A2", "#FFFFFF" ], "logo": "https://nbadatalakedev.blob.core.windows.net/nba/nba_sdk/assets/gleague_1612709911.png", "na": "Wolves", "tid": 1612709911, "isHome": 1},{ "ab": "TEX", "ci": "Texas", "colors": [ "#0050B5", "#0C2340", "#8D9093", "#FFFFFF" ], "logo": "https://nbadatalakedev.blob.core.windows.net/nba/nba_sdk/assets/gleague_1612709918.png", "na": "Legends", "tid": 1612709918, "isHome": 0}]}I have a teams tabl

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4 months ago
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ajt0225New
asked in Developer Discussion

JSON parse error when submitting request to API

Hello!Upon performing a z.request() to upload a file to my API, I get this error back:"Could not parse request body into json: Could not parse payload into json: Unexpected character ('-' (code 45)) in numeric value: expected digit (0-9) to follow minus sign...”I do not get this error if I include no form data in the request. Does anyone know a fix for this? My code is basically the default “uploadFile_v10” from the example app except with my URL substituted in.

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4 months ago
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webinstinctNew
asked in Developer Discussion

Private Application Action Creation with custom dictionary field that will allow a list of objects?

We are trying to set up an connection to our external api. The api endpoint has a parameter that needs to be a array of objects.i.e. - "OperationCodes": [ { "Opcode": "sample string 1", "Desc": "sample string 2", "LongDesc": "sample string 3", "TechDesc": "sample string 4", "CategoryCode": "sample string 5", "EstimatedParts": 1.0, "EstimatedLabor": 1.0, "EstimatedLaborHours": 1.0, "EstimatedFreight": 1.0, "EstimatedEquipment": 1.0, "EstimatedSublet": 1.0, "EstimatedMileage": 1.0, "EstimatedMiscSupply": 1.0, "EstimatedBillCodes": 1.0, "Approved": true, "FlatRateAmount": 1.0, "FlatRatePerFootRate": 1.0, "FlatRatePerFootMethod": "sample string 6", "LaborFinished": true, "StandardHours": 1.0, "EstCompDate": "sample string 8", "EstStartDate": "sample string 9", "CustPromiseDate": "sample string 10", "ForecastedPartsCharges": 1.0, "ForecastedLaborCharges": 1.0,

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4 months ago
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benjamink9Beginner
asked in Developer Discussion

Custom authentication for integration app

I created a integration app with the UI, which I later converted to a CLI project.The app integrates with a service that doesn’t have a REST API, but it has a node.js client.  Is it just a matter of adding the logic to the authentication.js script that makes the client call?  Perhaps setting sessionConfig.perform.source to a function?

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4 months ago
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kxzapBeginner
asked in Developer Discussion

What does it mean when I get a response 'key'?

I’m trying to implement dynamic fields into my action with responses from a trigger. So the flow is like the following:field A → trigger loads field B → trigger loads dynamic fields.However, when I test the action, I only get ‘key’ as a single response and I am unaware of where to begin debugging this. I saw only one previous post seemingly with the same error However there also doesn’t appear to be any resolution in that post.I’d love any help from here. Also, what’s the best way to inspect what is Zapier trying to send to my server, this also does not seem very clear.Thank you.

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K
4 months ago
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BlackpoolBeginner
asked in Developer Discussion

Zap works perfectly except not delivering dynamic field data to server when testing action

This post has been edited by a moderator to remove personal information. Please remember that this is a public forum and to remove any sensitive information prior to posting.I created a new Action for the first time using dynamic fields. Testing that and my Zap appears to be working perfectly, right up to the point where some of the data fields are not being delivered to the server.I am using a webhook as the trigger, and test data is being delivered correctly to the trigger test.My action captures that data, all fields are mapped properly, as you can see in the attached picture. But then when I test the action and look at the data delivered to the server, some of the fields are missing.The missing data comes from dynamic fields, so I assume that's my problem, but the action shows all of the expected key/value fields properly. How can it display all of that properly, but then not deliver the data to the server? I’m not sure where to look for the problem since the tests all show the pro

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4 months ago
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boulderobertNew
asked in Developer Discussion

Zap works perfectly except not delivering dynamic field data to server when testing action

 This post has been edited by a moderator to remove personal information. Please remember that this is a public forum and to remove any sensitive information prior to posting.Going crazy here because my Zap appears to be working perfectly, right up to the point where some of the data fields are not being delivered to the server.I am using a webhook as the trigger, and test data is being delivered correctly to the trigger test.My action captures that data, all fields are mapped properly, as you can see in the attached picture. But then when I test the action and look at the data delivered to the server, some of the fields are missing.The missing data comes from dynamic fields, so I assume that's my problem, but the action shows all of the expected key/value fields properly. How can it display all of that properly, but then not deliver the data to the server?Any help appreciated, but please don’t bother pointing me to the documentation for dynamic fields. I have read all that and still d

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4 months ago
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GJ_ABNew
asked in Developer Discussion

You need to choose a connected account or send something in the authData property

There has got to be something simple I am missing but your help is appreciated as I am very new to this.I am trying to setup API Key authentication. I entered some basic info but didn’t change too much… When I test it I get the error below and can’t figure out why… 

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4 months ago
iansco
ianscoZapier Staff
published in Developer Discussion

Potential Workaround for Proof Key for Code Exchange (PKCE) OAuth 2.0

IMPORTANT UPDATE (March 23, 2023)Support for PKCE is now available in version 14.0.0 (CHANGELOG) of the Zapier Developer Platform. This workaround is no longer necessary and should be replaced by an implementation that uses official support:Zapier Developer Platform: version 14.0.0 CHANGELOG Zapier Developer Platform: OAuth2 with PKCEHello there! 👋 As some of you may already have discovered, the Zapier Developer Platform supports the OAuth 2.0 "Authorization Code Flow" but it does not currently have support for the PKCE extension to OAuth 2.0.We do have PKCE support on our roadmap but we aren’t able to offer a timeline on that. To help any developers blocked by this we wanted to share a potential workaround with you. It can be implemented in both Platform UI (Visual Builder) and CLI apps. Please read on for more details!Before StartingBefore giving this workaround a try, please first check that the API you’re using sends back the `state` parameter value (generated by Zapier) along wit

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iansco
4 months ago
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benjamink9Beginner
asked in Developer Discussion

Add authentication fields to hold SSL certificate and private key

I’d like to add a fields to a session authentication to hold a SSL certificate and a private key, something like this: { computed: false, key: 'certificate', required: true, label: 'Certificate', type: 'string', helpText: 'Copy the text from the certificate file. It should resemble:\n`-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----\n...\n-----END CERTIFICATE-----`', }, { computed: false, key: 'private_key', required: true, label: 'Private Key', type: 'string', helpText: 'Copy the contents of the private-key file. It should resemble:\n\n`-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----\n...\n-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----`', },Assuming that a user pasted the value into the field:-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----REDACTED-----END CERTIFICATE-----How would line breaks be represented in bundle.authData.certificate and bundle.authData.private_key?

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4 months ago
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benjamink9Beginner
asked in Developer Discussion

What is the "z" variable?

What is the z variable that is injected into many of the CLI-applications’ methods?  For example: https://github.com/zapier/zapier-platform-example-app-session-auth/blob/16ec7a76bcd51f9a6100cde74a31e3ca2a83c58b/authentication.js#L19.Is there any documentation? In particular, I’d like to know if the z.request method supports POSTing a SSL certificate and key.

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4 months ago
pesmonde
pesmondeTinkerer
asked in Developer Discussion

How to modify the API response to consolidate child and childless keys

I am writing a custom zap to pull survey data from learning management system.  I got a lot of functionality working, but am stuck with how some of the data is being structured in the resultant JSON.  If the question is a multiple choice style question, the answer comes as a child record of user_answers key surrounded by curly brackets with a key pair nested beneath.  If it’s a free-text field, then the user_answers is being returned between square brackets.   Here’s an example JSON response of the two: {  "survey_id": "2071",  "survey_name": "Course Survey",  "user_id": "1",  "user_name": "Bilbo B.",  "completion_status": "Completed",  "completed_on": "2023/01/09, 16:12:07",  "completed_on_timestamp": "1673298727",  "total_time": "39s",  "total_time_seconds": 39,  "questions": [    {      "id": "411",      "text": "The course materials (slides, animations, ring of power, etc.) facilitated my learning.",      "type": "Multiple choice",      "answers": {        "1": "Strongly Agree",   

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4 months ago
Ryan Powell
Ryan PowellZapier Staff
posted in Developer Discussion

Announcing our #1 requested feature from our partners!

Hey Y’all,Ryan here, product manager at Zapier and today I’m excited to share that we’ve released a new tool for our partners to embed Zapier! But first, why should you embed Zapier? That’s a great question, here are a few reasons why:Retain customers longer, reduce churn, drive upgrades, and improve their lifetime value. Focus on building your core product without sacrificing valuable engineering resources on Zapier.Below are a few quotes from our partners who have embedded Zapier in their productsUnbounce customers who use integrations powered by Zapier have more than 10X the LTV (lifetime value) of accounts that do not have a Zapier integration.— Robert Cameron, Product Manager at UnbounceNot only are ClickUp users with a Zapier connection 25% more likely to upgrade to our paid plans, but it's also clear that they are 21% less likely to churn. — ClickUp Introducing the Full Zapier ExperienceSo now that you’re sold on embedding Zapier, what exactly is this new tool we’ve released? We

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Ryan Powell
4 months ago
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Mary BrittoBeginner
asked in Developer Discussion

How to get response from Zapier?

Hello,We are working on an Integration of our application with Neon CRM via Zapier. We are able to successfully send the message to Zapier via Web APIs. We are using Polling trigger to call our APIs . We want to capture the response at Zapier whether our response is successfully received by Zapier or not. How can we get  a success or failed message from Zapier to our app. 

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4 months ago
jphorn
jphornTinkerer
asked in Developer Discussion

Feature request: date time formatting with output locale

This has been answered by Zapier Support already with proposed solution to use Translate by Zapier (which works as an intermediate solution), but that requires an extra step which I think is unnecessary since Zapier’s datetime formatting library already has this built-in. Therefore this thread serves as an official feature request to Zapier’s developers to offer output locale support in Zapier’s datetime formatter. I'm having a hard time finding information about localised (long) day and month names. I've searched the community forum and all various help articles, but none mention anything if the formatted date result is localised -- or info on how to make them localised. I did find your Intl.DateFormat library on Github, where there is a output locale parameter, but this seems unsupported in Zapier itself. Could you please know how to get a localised French date like Janvier, Lundi 3, 2023.locale - A BCP 47 tag to identify the output languageType: stringDefault: The system localeExamp

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jphorn
4 months ago
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benjamink9Beginner
asked in Developer Discussion

Create a dynamic field

I’m trying to create a dynamic field that references another API in my private integration. The API requires basic authentication, which I’ve configured.This is an example of the API’s response and the Javascript to transform it:const results = [ { "fieldId": "100", "name": "Result", "options": [ { "id": 1, "name": "Cancelled" }, { "id": 2, "name": "Negative" }, { "id": 3, "name": "Positive" } ] }, { "fieldId": "200", "name": "Foo", "options": [], }];const options = results.filter(v => v.name === "Result")[0].options.map( function (o) { return { key: o.name, label: o.name };});console.log(options);[ { key: 'Cancelled', label: 'Cancelled' }, { key: 'Negative', label: 'Negative' }, { key: 'Positive', label: 'Positive' }]Here is the field’s code://

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4 months ago
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NagamanickamBeginner
asked in Developer Discussion

How to implement pagination for triggers

Hi,I want to implement pagination in the trigger so I followed the steps mentioned in the Zapier developer documentation to implement pagination. But I am not getting the second-page results.I tested this trigger by binding with a dropdown it’s getting second-page data when I click the Load more button in the dropdown.but it’s not giving the next page result while binding with action. please help us with this and how can we achieve this.  This is our API documentation link: https://developers.freshworks.com/crm/api/#paginationThanks in advance.

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shalgrim
4 months ago
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jose.dNew
posted in Developer Discussion

Approaches for testing a new Zapier App version

As a developer, what approaches do y'all favour for testing an upcoming Zapier App version?Some options come to mind: Release a new private version, make the changes and point URLs to a testing backend server. Check everything works. Once happy, point URLs to live server again and promote version. Create a Zapier App which is essentially a copy of the Production one. This app is permanently pointing to a testing backend server. Drawback: it's hard to ensure they are in sync. Updating settings is a manual error-prone process. Use Zapier CLI instead of the Web Builder and rely on unit tests (From Zapier CLI i just know what i read from the docs, haven't tried it yet). Anyways, i am curious about other people's recommendations. Floor is open for discussion :)

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4 months ago
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