Trigger workflow with

[boston85719]

Is this new, or have I just never seen it before?

Any insights on how to use it effectively? Documentation is pretty scant on the subject.

The Workflow API | Bubble Docs

Select the HTTP request (POST or GET) by which you want to trigger the request.

[adamhholmes]

Trigger API Workflows with GET Requests

Hello everyone! My name is Peter, and I am a software engineering intern here at Bubble. Users have asked for the ability to allow API Workflows to be triggered via GET request instead of the usual POST request for a while now. A powerful use case for building logic around a GET request would be in the case of Bubble app listening for a 3rd party (e.g. Facebook) webhook. We’re excited to release this ability today on our experimental flags panel, and it will soon be deployed once it’s well-test…

[boston85719]

I found this post in the linked Announcement Thread helpful

Trigger API Workflows with GET Requests

Sure. So, usually “web hooks” are set up in external applications so that “when this thing happens” you get a trigger in your app. It is a lot simpler than polling every x minutes to ask is something has happened yet. For example, in Stripe you set up a Webhook on Payment Success - “tell me when a payment has been made”. In Bubble we do that via a Backend API workflow being external. So we give Stripe the URL of our API workflow and then it gets triggered. Workflow runs by something outside …

As well as this one, since I didn’t know whatsapp has webhooks

Trigger API Workflows with GET Requests

@grace.hong: First of all, great relief to have the ability to take GET calls! Thanks! Your comment on periods is somewhat fair (somewhat because the consideration stems from a legacy and there is a pattern of people moving away from it). See @aestela 's comment. Regardless, could we quickly get this to a place where periods are automatically parsed into underscores? This is the pattern that Meta seems to be expecting ( Note: PHP converts periods (.) to underscores (_) in parameter names.). Th…