I'm a fairly new React and Express developer. I'm working on a project that uses a payment provider like Stripe for the payment on the website.
The dashboard of the provider allows me to regenerate/view my API keys, and input a webhook URL, which I have no idea about.
All I know so far, is that a webhook notifies me of an event. But how does it do that? If my website is called https://example.com, and I use https://example.com/payment as the webhook URL, what will it do?
I'm completely new to this term, so any help will be appreciated in helping me understand this concept.
MUCH THANKS!!!!
Their backend will POST data to your backend endpoint when the event occurs.
It's a lot like how your frontend would call an API endpoint on your backend to submit data.
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Is there a way to query the discord API without have a bot on a server.
I would like to retrieve my friends and my profile images and put it on a website I created.
I've done some research and only found stuff for discord bots.
Is what I want even possible ?
Yes, this is possible.
Take a look at this API route. You can just make a request there with the user id and get the whole user object.
If you need more information on the API itself and how to use it check out the Discord API Reference
I'm trying to use the WhatsApp API, especially "POST /v1/contacts" at this url "https://developers.facebook.com/docs/whatsapp/api/contacts/".
But actually I don't know which url to use, I tried "https://api.whatsapp.com/v1/contacts" but I got a 404 Not Found Status.
I do my queries on postman.
Has anyone ever used it.
Thank you.
To achieve your goal, you'd need to try a different method because the API you're trying to call is not a public API, it's a private API.
Access private API is only available to verified Whatsapp for Business accounts.
It's Whatsapp For Business service provider you choose and successfully applied for.
Since apparently you're not reachable for API questions via email, I guess I'd have to put all the questions in here since it would be tedious to create one for each of them.
So we're planning on creating a webhooks system for our integrations to create a better experience for our users. There are a few pieces that are missing for our end to support having a Podio integration that runs 100% on webhooks.
Support organization level webhooks instead at the space level.
Send full object payload in the webhooks push so we don't need to fetch the resource again. Or at least provide a delta of changes.
Have a secret token header that you send with each request so we can assure the authenticity of the data (that it's actually from Podio and it's not someone trying to hack our system).
Github does a great job with this: https://developer.github.com/webhooks/#delivery-headers.
Ability to unsubscribe from a webhook if the client revokes the OAuth credentials. Do you automatically delete that webhook or do we need to contact the user or you guys to get rid of it?
Trello for instance deletes all webhooks associated with a token if it's revoked or a second option is our server sends a 410 Gone back and the webhook, well you guessed it, it's gone.
Do you think something like this is feasible in the near future?
Thanks for your insights :)
Seems pretty valid point. Are there any particular org operations that you are interested to have webhooks for? Can you also describe some use-cases for org level webhooks?
Sending full object payload is pretty complicated because items in Podio can be extremely big and it might be not needed for webhook to get all details. That's why we keep it small and tiny and let Podio partners build own complicated solutions based on webhooks.
Secret token is not much needed if there is only item_id sent in webhook. Let's review it on item modified scenario.
1) User (or anything else) modifies item
2) item.modified webhook is triggered with item_id
3) 3rd party app receives webhook
4) 3rd party app makes a call to Podio API (if it's needed) and gets all required information from Podio API
So, if webhook request is fake, then Podio API will return same item details and nothing is affected. If you want to have some extra layer of security: why not making webhook URL unique and specific to webhook? Then only Podio will know which URL to use to trigger this webhook.
Ability to unsubscribe from a webhook if the client revokes the OAuth credentials.
Sorry, but I don't understand your question. Can you please re-phrase it as new StackOverflow question?
I have been reading Yodlee Docs at https://developer.yodlee.com/Yodlee_API/Webhooks for implementing webhooks
What i did is, first registered a webhook for one of my users using following end point
POST /{cobrandName}/v1/cobrand/config/notifications/events/{eventName}
Then i triggered a refresh for one of the account using following endpoint POST /{cobrandName}/v1/refresh
But seems that Yodlee doesnt hit my URL when refresh is completed or there is an error in refresh.
I also tried to add an account using FastLink to see if Yodlee hits my URL when an account is added. But it doesn't. I am not sure what exactly is the problem. Can you please help?
Although i have a dobt - Does the webhook hit only if add/edit/refresh account was done using the API and not FastLInk provided by yodlee?
I am using Account Agreegation API and Developer account for testing.
Webhook event notifications will work only when you try to add the account using YSL APIs (manually).It doesn't work with FastLink. I have been informed by Yodlee Support. They also informed me that till date they don't have any client using webhook service, which was bit scary to know.
Please find a simple example to use webhooks-
1)Subscribe event using this URL- http://webhook.info/post/FLQLMZMFJI
2)Initiate add account process
3)Open the following URL and find the refresh notifications -
http://webhook.info/#/watch/FLQLMZMFJI
Please note: As you have subscribed for webhook event now. Please unsubscribe first using
DELETE /{cobrandName}/v1/cobrand/config/notifications/events/{eventName}
Delete Subscription
How can I recognize when user has added account in Yodlee Fast Link (for example an investment account) by going to the link.
What I want:
I am creating a link to "Fast Link";
User are following by this link;
He is adding a their account;
And in this point I wanna know that he has added something (for example by callback url). How?
Thanks!
Yes, this can be done. You can have a page hosted that can count the hits and use that page as callback URL in extra params for FastLink.
You can get more information on this at
https://developer.yodlee.com/Fastlink_2.0/FastLink_Integration_Guide_for_Web
The extra parameters that needs to be passed for achieving this is as below
callback=http://google.co.in where here google.co.in is your callback page
Regards,
Vijay
Yodlee have introduced a new event subscription service using webhooks. It is part of their YSL (Yodlee Service Language) product.
It can trigger events for following –
the MFA information is requested by the provider site to log in for
aggregating data
the Yodlee system has performed the login on the provider site
successfully
the Yodlee system has retrieved the account summary information from
the provider site successfully
the final status of account addition or update account APIs
Details -
https://developer.yodlee.com/apidocs/index.php#!/cobrand/eventSubscription
Please NOTE that Webhook event notifications will work only when you try to add the account using YSL APIs (manually).It doesn't work with FastLink. I have been informed by Yodlee Support. They also informed me that till date they don't have any client using webhook service, which was bit scary to know.