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dinesh_sharmaBeginner
asked in General Discussion
Clarification on authentication.

In session-auth, is it mandatory for backend to return a User object/ JSON when you test for successfull exchange of session-key or authenticationToken for username and password. I mean exchnage of authenticationToken is happening while reaching /login endpoint while username and password are passed. Now witht the valid authenticationToken I can test any protected endpoint which this user is authorized to reach. 

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3 years ago
Csaba
CsabaBeginner
asked in General Discussion
Is the engine config in package.json matter?

Hi all,  The package.json "engines" settings are considered on deployment? Most of the examples have it. For example, the "OAuth1" Twitter I just realised we have it too, and it is pretty old.

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Csaba
3 years ago
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dinesh_sharmaBeginner
posted in General Discussion
Problem in polling/ reaching a protected "trigger" API endpoint, while using session-auth as authentication system.

I have developed a simple Zapier integration (dredditz 1.0.0) currently having authentication module build with session-auth system and a protected endpoint API trigger. The trigger is looking for new posts while this endpoint expects the request’s  Auth Header to have valid JWT. Which I am doing via building the request JavaScript object with url, and headers properties.My integration is working fine locally passing all the tests viz. (following are the 4 tests I am doing in application.test.js)1)  calling the getAuthenticationToken() method from authentication.js, authenticating the user with username, password, returning a AuthResponse object consisting of authentication token and refresh token, which I am catching in bundle.authData.xxx computed fields for later on usage / susequent API calls for refreshing token or polling trigger.2)  subsequently if I again call the getAuthenticationToken() method from authentication.js module, it is correctly refreshing the old authToken using t

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3 years ago
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mustafajamalBeginner
asked in General Discussion
Populate a drop down from a service call

Hi,I have a scenario that in my input form there is a form with fields Application ID, Entity Name and Entity Type:Here App ID and Entity Name are static field BUT Entity Type is a dynamic field(or Entity Type Dropdown). Entity Type will get Entity Types from a service. For service there is requirement to have AppId in header to get entity types of specific application so here I am trying to use: 'appId': '{{bundle.inputData.app_id}}'.// Configure a request to an endpoint of your api that// returns custom field meta data for the authenticated// user. Don't forget to congigure authentication!const options = { url: 'https://myserver.com:91/api/db/GetAllEntitiesOfDb', method: 'GET', headers: { 'Accept': 'application/json', 'appId': '{{bundle.inputData.app_id}}' }, params: { }}return z.request(options) .then((response) => { response.throwForStatus(); const results = response.json; var entities = []; for(const en in results.data){ entities.push(en.Entity);

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3 years ago
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ShaneLaunchBeginner
asked in General Discussion
Unable to change Zapier version

Hello, I’m trying to make changes to version 1.1 of my Zapier integration. However, recently a popup has been preventing me from doing so. I’ve tried doing this on both Firefox and Chrome.  I’m trying to click on the version, so I can change it to my 1.1 version.  But this pop up keeps popping up whenever I hover my mouse over the version so I can change it.  

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3 years ago
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spencercNew
asked in General Discussion
getting response headers for auth in code mode

I need to be able to get the response headers in Step 2 “Configure Token Exchange Request” of session auth because the session info I need to save is in the headers, not the main body of the response.  I’ve tried the following:z.response.headers.get()response.headers.get()response.headersEverything I try either causes it to fail to completely or just doesn’t return any information. Is there a correct syntax in Zapier to get response headers here? For example: return z.request(options)  .then((response) => {    response.throwForStatus();     var session = Here’s where I need to grab session info from the headers.    return {      'sessionKey': session    };  }); Thanks,

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3 years ago
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spencercNew
asked in General Discussion
logging errors in Visual Builder?

When you click “Switch to Code Mode” in the Visual Builder what’s the correct way to log information in the code? Using console logs gets me no results and using alerts gets me an error message.  Is there a way to log extra info to be able to see what I’m doing more clearly? Thanks,

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3 years ago
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outgrowBeginner
asked in General Discussion
Enter a URL where Zapier can fetch custom field names for this trigger.

I was trying to pull sample data dynamically in my test trigger,but some how I am not able to do so, I am using this optional api setting call “Custom Trigger Result Fields URL”but data those are available in this api end point not showing in zapier test lead, can any one help me here. 

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3 years ago
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atorrenoBeginner
asked in General Discussion
How can I add my app's terms of service into Zapier?

I am interested in adding an integration into Zapier’s marketplace. I also want to make sure we’re covered from a legal perspective. We want to add a disclaimer, or links to our terms of service, so it’s clear that by using Zapier, our customer is responsible for the transfer of data in either direction. Is there a way to customize the authentication popup window? Or an existing configuration that lets me add something to the footer? Clicking around and Googling hasn’t yielded anything yet.

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AndrewJDavison_Luhhu
3 years ago
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clarrowBeginner
asked in General Discussion
Oauth2 Access Token Expiring Instantly

Hello, I have an issue with an integration I’ve created recently.I first used a public client to authenticate/authorise and it worked without any issues.I have changed that to a confidential client, and now I’m having issues with the access token. I used Zapier CLI to create this, and after I successfully connect the account, after 3-4 seconds I get this message: “This account is expired.Please reconnect it here.”Everything else seems to be fine, the client_id and client_secret should be ok, since I don’t get any errors when authenticating, but the token expires way too soon and I don’t understand why.If I’m reproducing the actual flow to get the token using the same client, on Postman for example, I get a lifespan that has nothing to do with 3-4 seconds, so the configurations on my auth server can’t be the problem.Thank you in advance!

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3 years ago
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rafaelsanchezrdBeginner
asked in General Discussion
Creating new Integration authentication error (Session)

I'm creating a new integration and the Call to the API works in Postman, when trying to get the information form API with Zapier I recieve the error above.Please Help.

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3 years ago
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NicolasA
asked in General Discussion
Issue with Oauth2 Access Token Request

Hi,I am trying to create an integration with Oauth v2,however I am unable to add my app Access Token Request URL as shown in the documentation as the field does not appear on the configuration screen.Which raises an error "Error: Could not find the method to call: authentication.oauth2Config.getAccessToken" after testing my authentication configuration.Am i missing something ? Can you help me ?Thanks, Nicolas.

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3 years ago
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sub150Beginner
asked in General Discussion
How to add additional output fields using z-deduper

Hello, I’m using z-deduper in a trigger check for updates on my API endpoint. My API returns an array of objects that contains property. I can select a property with a dropdown button to only check for update on this property in each object. In order to do that, I have pretty much the same code as the example provided by the author of the z-deduper package. The only difference is that the object returned only cointains the property and it’s value ( instead of all the properties ).  My problem is that I need some other properties of the objects as output data to use them in my action ( for example the “id” property or the “label” property of my object ). How can I add those other properties to my outputFields ? I can’t put them into my object because otherwise z-deduper will also detect changes on those properties.  Thanks :) ps: My app is on CLI. Informations about z-deduper : https://github.com/ikbelkirasan/z-deduper

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3 years ago
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AmrishKumar
asked in General Discussion
Not seeing the newly pushed app version in zapier.

Hi we used to push our zapier version by command “npm run zapier-push” and it was working fine 3 month earlier. but now when I am running this and trying to push new version then push is successful and there is no error in terminal but I am not seeing my new version in list.also I have tried to use ‘Zapier push’ command getting this errorI have tried running the commands “npm i --save-dev @types...` ” but no success. can any one tell me what could be the possible issue. Thanks

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ikbelkirasan
3 years ago
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ZohoProjectsBeginner
posted in General Discussion
Not able to get start the Legacy web builder conversion again

I click ‘Get started’ for Zoho Projects app once before. Now I have delete the converted app since, I have changed few on script and deployed on legacy app.Then, I tried to converted but it end up redirecting me to 404 page.Any workaround or option to convert again ?

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3 years ago
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abubakrBeginner
asked in General Discussion
Problem Testing Oauth2 using "Test your Authentication"

I am trying to setup my custom app on Zapier partner dashboard using Oauth2.I have provided/setup all information correctly using their documentation for Oauth2. But if fails when I try to test it using the “Test your Authentication” area. I added some logs to my backend to trace the API calls. So it follows the below steps :Zapier makes a GET /authorise request, which redirects the user to our webapp login page User authenticates on our webapp and then confirms/consents to the authorisation request Our backend issues a valid “Authorisation Code” to Zapier for it to ask for “Access Token” using the “Authorisation Code” Zapier sends a POST /token request to get the access token and valid “Access Token” is returned And then immediately Zapier again sends a /token request, this time as GET request and not POST, and as expected our backend returns a 405 error as GET method is not supported for /token request. So I am wondering why Zapier is adding the extra GET  call for /token request? Is

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3 years ago
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jjay225
asked in General Discussion
Webhook incoming authentication & security

Hey All, new to Zapier here. Awesome product this. Has all the “Actions” I need and was easily able to test a bunch of them now. Currently my situation is this:I have an app running on our server and when something specific happens we are going to send a post to a Zapier Webhook or to a Customer Zapier Platform Integration we’ve created for our private use and that will for instance send a MS Teams msg, send an email or a text msg. My issue is this: I know on the generic “Webhooks By Zapier” you can’t add Basic Auth for incoming requests to the Zapier generated Webhook URL but what I want to do is for instance: Add Basic Auth or API Key for my Zapier Webhook generated URL so from my app I will send for instance Base64 Encoded user & password via the Authorization header to the Zapier generated url of say: https://hooks.zapier.com/hooks/catch/34234234/asdfasdf etc.  Now I’m struggling how to set this up via my custom app on https://developer.zapier.com/ . It seems the authentication

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CraigNet3
3 years ago
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Missive
asked in General Discussion
Multiple create actions on a resource (one to create, one to update the resource) ?

We want  users to be able to update a resource, from your documentation it seems we need to use the create action for both creating and updating resources. — https://platform.zapier.com/docs/search-create Now, from the schema, it seems the create value can only be an object and not an array of objects. How can we define multiple create actions on a resource (one to create, one to update the resource)?

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3 years ago
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krupahthakkerBeginner
asked in General Discussion
Error on turning Zapier on

Hi,My subscription endpoint is using azure sql database to store subscription information in the database. When I turn the zapier on to test my custom trigger that is using this subscription endpoint I get below error.When I test the endpoint locally it works fine.Please help. The app returned "An error has occurred.". What happened (You are seeing this because you are an admin): Stack trace: ResponseError: {"status":500,"headers":{"content-type":"application/json; charset=utf-8"},"content":"{\"Message\":\"An error has occurred.\"}","request":{"url":"https://test.azurewebsites.net/api/abc/abcsubscribe?API_Key=password&url=https%3A%2F%2Fzapier.com%2Fhooks%2Fstandard%2F9271652%2Fa1a1f76b6642437685e520f4cbb99323%2F"}} at Object.throwForStatus (/var/task/node_modules/zapier-platform-core/src/http-middlewares/after/throw-for-status.js:7:11) From previous event: at executeHttpRequest (/var/task/node_modules/zapier-platform-core/src/execute.js:22:6) at execute (/var/task/node_modules/zapi

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3 years ago
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ZaneZapier Staff
posted in General Discussion
"View Source" now available in the web-based developer tool

We added a simple, but useful, new feature to our web based developer tool this week - the ability to see the source definition of your Zapier integration.  To see the json definition of your Zapier integration, click Advanced on the left-hand navigation, and then choose “View Source”.   This is handy for those who want to look a little deeper into how their integration is represented in the Zapier platform. Have a look at the schema documentation and you’ll get a pretty complete understanding of what you’re building when you create a Zapier integration.When you work with the Zapier CLI you are essentially creating this definition, directly in JavaScript.A number of developers have expressed the need to be able to identify and confirm changes from one version to another.  Here’s a quick demo of the feature, and how you can use this source definition to get a diff of two versions of your integration: Watch Version Diff Demo

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3 years ago
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JaredTibs
asked in General Discussion
Dynamic fields in Search Actions with GraphQL API

Hello, My team is working on build it’s own application which communicates with our public APIs that are written in GraphQL. Our triggers (backed by Webhooks) often contain very lightweight payloads. As a result, we foresee clients having the need to create a step to run a Search Action back to our API to grab additional information about the record in question before passing it on to the next step.  The question I have is whether there exists any methodology to presenting and allowing the customer to choose which fields in GraphQL they would like returned in the response of the search action? Right now we have this hardcoded in the outputFields property of the operation in our source code for the Zapier app. Are there any options here or people who have worked around this with GraphQL? Thank you in advance!

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3 years ago
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Vaibhav_ERNew
asked in General Discussion
How to create input fields for complex json objects?

Hi,I am new to zapier. I am trying to create an Action in which I want to take different inputs which are part of my API. I am able to add flat structure inputs (like: name:{}, age:{} ...). But I am facing problem to create input fields for complex json formats like:“items”: [    {        "number": "1",        "quantity": 1,        "amount": 100,        "taxCode": "PS081282",        "itemCode": "Y0001",        "description": "Yarn"    }],"addresses": {    "currentAddress": {        "line1": "1-224, min street",        "city": "Irvine",        "region": "CA",        "country": "US",        "postalCode": "55423"    }} Please help me to know how I can create input fields for “items” and “addresses”.

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3 years ago
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Serhii ZubkovNew
asked in General Discussion
Is it possible to manage users zaps with API?

Hey everyone,Sorry if I missed that in docs! It seems there are no such info in docs as far as I can see.Is it possible to manage users zaps by making requests to zapier api?What I wanted to do before run the trigger:1. Retrieve all the zaps connected to my trigger2. Let user to chose which zaps to use3. Enable the chosen zaps4. Run trigger only after that

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AndrewJDavison_Luhhu
3 years ago
lucas-quanto
lucas-quanto
asked in General Discussion
How to redact fields in auth data?

Hi, we are developing a Zapier Application, and when testing we noticed that the zapier logs are leaking the user private key that we use for autentication. It is on a `gpgprivatekey` field.  Is there anyway I tell zapier which fields are sensitive? It looks like environment and password are already redacted.Btw setting the field to password does redact in log, but removes all line breaks and trims the field which renders the private key invalid.

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ikbelkirasan
3 years ago
carlosatconnex
carlosatconnexZapier Expert
asked in Error Handling
Handle 403 Error as 401 (auto refresh acess token) [Oauth 2 , Platform UI ]

Im doing a GoToWebinar integration to get some data that´s not included in the native app and i need.My auth is working for the first token but is not refreshing so i get promted to re-auth after 60 mins and my zaps get turned off, i noticed im getting a “403” error instead of a “401” so i guess i need to handle it manually??Q: does anybody has some snippet/example to handle a 403 error as 401 in zapier´s platform UI ?**The objective is to trigger the Refresh Token request  when i get a 403 error (instead of a 401)

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carlosatconnex
3 years ago
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