I’m using webhooks to process new users via zapier , and lately it’s being triggered too often. The option we have in the admin is When a user is created, approved or updated. I thought that the email would only be sent on new user creation . but we’re getting it even if the user had a badge awarded…

Hmm I think our webhook should be more distinct here. user created user updated Can you add this to your list @neil

[image] watchmanmonitor: what’s the best way to identify when the webhook is related to a new user, vs a user being updated? You can get that from the X-Discourse-Event header field. When a user is created that field’s value will be user_created. [image] watchmanmonitor: lately it’s bein…

[image] simon: header field Thanks @simon it looks like Zapier doesn’t surface the headers which are sent over. Assuming we get the user_created & user_updated in the body of the webhook, I should be able to know just when to perform an action for a newly created user. For the record, these …

[image] simon: You can get that from the X-Discourse-Event header field. When a user is created that field’s value will be user_created. I asked Zapier about this, and while the information sent in the header is awesome, they don’t include it in Zaps . I’d love to see this information sent in…

[image] watchmanmonitor: I asked Zapier about this, and while the information sent in the header is awesome, they don’t include it in Zaps . It’s somewhat complicated, but you can extract the webhook’s request header on Zapier with the method outlined in this post: https://meta.discourse.org/t…

How to differentiate webhooks for created, approved or updated

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neil (Neil Lalonde) October 24, 2017, 8:35pm 6

The issue with user_updated always being triggered was fixed by @tgxworld.

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How to differentiate webhooks for created, approved or updated

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