Webhooks plugin

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I made a super-simple webhooks plugin, which sends HTTP requests for chosen DiscourseEvents that are triggered. Right now, there aren’t many events that are triggered, and only topic_created and post_created seem like they’d be useful for this. Hopefully, more events will be sprinkled around the main code in the future.

https://github.com/rcfox/Discourse-Webhooks

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Would it be difficult to listen for new Notifications for a user? How would you potentially go about this? Thanks for the plugin btw.

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The plugin listens to DiscourseEvent.trigger. There aren’t a whole lot of uses of it yet though: https://github.com/discourse/discourse/search?q=DiscourseEvent.trigger+path%3A%2Flib+path%3A%2Fapp&type=Code

Adding it yourself wouldn’t be too difficult if you find where notifications are created. Or maybe you can get one of the Discourse devs to do it for you.

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One possible use-case for webhooks would be syncing new users on Discourse with a 3rd party application or CRM system. I’m not sure about the internals for Discourse, but if you were able to set a trigger against a new user that would be very useful.

One step further you could link this to Zapier, making it trivial to sync to a few hundred other SaaS apps.

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Hero. This is precisely what I need.

I also need a user_created hook, but I’m playing with that and will be be creating a pull request for that (and more?) soon.

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I’ve been using this plugin for a few months and it’s worked perfectly. Thanks for bringing it into existence @rcfox!

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I’m trying to setup a user created event hook, but when I do so, it breaks some tests related to post creation. The new event seems to be causing topic_created to fire multiple times while preventing post_created from firing.

in /app/models/user.rb

after_create do
  DiscourseEvent.trigger(:user_created, self)
end

Relevant test output

Failures:

  1) PostCreator new topic success triggers extensibility events
     Failure/Error: creator.create
     Mocha::ExpectationError:
       unexpected invocation: DiscourseEvent.trigger(:topic_created, #<Topic:0x7fcbdc666ae8>, {:title => 'hello world topic', :raw => 'my name is fred', :archetype_id => 1}, #<User:0x7fcbdd907c10>)
       unsatisfied expectations:
       - expected exactly once, not yet invoked: DiscourseEvent.trigger(:post_created, anything, anything, #<User:0x7fcbdd907c10>)
       - expected exactly once, invoked twice: DiscourseEvent.trigger(:topic_created, anything, anything, #<User:0x7fcbdd907c10>)
       satisfied expectations:
       - expected at least once, invoked 4 times: DiscourseEvent.trigger(:markdown_context, anything)
       - expected exactly once, invoked once: DiscourseEvent.trigger(:after_trigger_post_process, anything)
       - expected exactly once, invoked once: DiscourseEvent.trigger(:before_create_topic, anything, anything)
       - expected exactly once, invoked once: DiscourseEvent.trigger(:after_validate_topic, anything, anything)
       - expected exactly once, invoked once: DiscourseEvent.trigger(:validate_post, anything)
       - expected exactly once, invoked once: DiscourseEvent.trigger(:before_create_post, anything)
     # ./lib/post_creator.rb:220:in `trigger_after_events'
     # ./lib/post_creator.rb:150:in `create'
     # ./spec/components/post_creator_spec.rb:82:in `block (4 levels) in <top (required)>'
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Anyone tried to integrate it with Zapier?

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Im looking for it too, cheers

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I checked the repo to find events for

  • user profile changed (more precisely, new mail address confirmed)
  • group membership changed (either triggered for every user or once for the group)

I couldn’t find it. Did I miss something?

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This plugin could be nice to integrate with #auto

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I believe Discourse supports webhooks directly now, so this plugin isn’t needed anymore.

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It sure does. Webhooks are documented here: Configure webhooks that trigger on Discourse events to integrate with external services.

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