What can you do with webhooks?
Jan Cerman 1 minute Webhooks are versatile and you can use them in many scenarios. Let's take a look at a few examples of what's possible.
What can you do with webhooks?
Here are a few example scenarios:
You can also react to workflow changes in your content items to:
How webhooks work in a nutshell
- Kontent.ai sends an HTTP POST request to the webhook URL immediately after a specific event occurs in your Kontent.ai project.
- Your app receives the HTTP POST request with JSON payload.
- The payload contains information about the affected objects and the type of change.
- The request’s header contains a payload signature you can use to verify the message.
- Your app responds to Kontent.ai and processes the request. For example, you can go through the payload and request the latest content.
- If your application is unavailable or fails to process the request, the request is sent again as per the retry policy.
See how you can create a webhook endpoint in your app in the next lesson.
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