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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Poll-Based Triggers
Best answer by ikbelkirasanBest answer by ikbelkirasan
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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