Send message to outside app

Need help APIs
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Hello,

I’m an absolute newb with Bubble.io. My goal is to create a user interface “controller” app that can send messages to an external program.

For example, something like TouchOSC: TouchOSC | hexler.net.

I’d like to make sliders, knobs, and buttons- that will send messages to an external app when they are manipulated.

I can’t figure out where to start. I have successfully gotten requests IN to bubble.io via a workflow API. Now I need to send messages OUT of bubble.io. Any help or even just a bullet point note on which direction to move towards would be greatly helpful. Thanks so much!

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Hey @grady.sain,

Have you tried and/or looked into POST API requests?

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Hey johnny,

Thanks for the reply… I’m looking into POST API requests. But I think I’m going to need to use websockets… If you look at this video: DEMO / TouchOSC emulating TouchBar for Blender 3D - YouTube you’ll see that what I’m trying to do is basically stream commands from my bubble.io app to another app (not Blender in this case, but who knows?).

I’m a newb to web communications in general, so I’ve been reading docs like this:

I think that using http communications isn’t the way I want to go- I’d like to experiment with websockets. Are websockets even a possibility with bubble.io? I can’t find really any documentation to support using websockets in bubble.io…

Any thoughts? Thanks in advance…