@NigelG Did you ever figure out the intergration? Am confused as well. Trying to bulk email a list of people that are following a user and believe I could complete that task with Zapier.
Yeah, I have a feeling the Zapier “in” as well as “out” … could be huge.
No, I haven’t yet. But my failures where more to do with me just crashing in and doing it. And not really reading the docs
Yesterday I read the “Introduction to APIs” tutorial (which is fantastic) and am now ready to have another go.
My issues was not understanding the need for the API authentication trigger.
For non programmers this is a great, and fairly short, course.
Should have more feedback by the end of the weekend. If I can get it to work then I can try to make it public.
I found, however, that API documentation is fairly poorly written for the non technical person. I don’t understand why they need write an essay on something that is programmatic.
You have two options for authentication, either put the api_token in the URL as a query string, or in the body of the request (for POST). you can also make the call not authenticated, but be careful with this
We’ll make sure zapier sends the right request. That’s likely where the issue is. We’ll look at assign a bubble webhook in zapier so that people can just do that with a preset zap.
Ok, so apparently I need to add “Session Based Auth” to my API call. So do a GET on something that will always be there (OBJ/USER seems perfect for this) and then store the token and use it for the POST in the same session.
Great, I get it. I see how it works. But I need to be able to program in Javascript to do this. Someone on Fiverr is suggesting $25 for this, my guess that is about $1 a line of code. No way.
Really can’t see how Zapier can claim you don’t need to be a programmer to integrate an API when you clearly do.
Anyway, this has to be something done frequently…but Zapier have no forum. Where would I go to ask ? Stackoverflow ?