Whilst services like Integromat are now actively supporting Coda, their most powerful features are not available due to not being able to access the web hooks that Zapier uses to power some of its features.
If these were documented in the API then it would help others be able to create real-time integrations with Coda docs, which would generally be useful.
Integromat themselves have specifically stated that they would consider creating Instant triggers if they had access, which would be great for those of us that need the increased functionality of Integromat over the more rudimentary (and expensive) features from Zapier.
Hey Murray, Arpit from Integromat here. Like you, we are also excited to extend the possibilities of our Coda integration by bringing support for webhooks. As soon as the Coda team makes that possible, we will create modules that act as instant triggers.
@shishir
If possible, could you please share Coda’s plan for this request? Will these webhooks be opened up at some point in the future?
Having third-party apps triggered via new-row webhooks seems increasingly necessary for me (and many others I imagine), the more I try to fit Coda within my ecosystem of tools. Unfortunately, Zapier is too expensive for me and these webhooks seem to be available solely to Zapier.
I would rather build my own script or use Integromat to make build this out. It would be really awesome if these webhooks were opened up for all API users.
Hi @Ajay_John, stepping in for Shishir here. This is still on our roadmap for the future, but unfortunately we don’t have an ETA at this time. There’s a fair bit of engineering work involved to get outbound webhooks working correctly and reliably, and the feature is lower in our priority than other cool things we’re working on.
One thing I should mention is that Zapier doesn’t actually have access to any special kind of API for their trigger/webhook support – they actually just poll Coda docs regularly and look for changes over time. So, in the meantime, you could probably put together your own tool for free using Google Apps Script, by having it run regularly and look for changes to your docs.
Thanks for the prompt response, @oleg!
I understand that it is not an easy affair. Glad you were candid about its priority level.
If you are already aware of any forum threads where people have used Google Apps Scripts to achieve this, I would really appreciate it if you could direct me there. In the mean time, I’ll try to Google it and understand how to work with App Scripts.
I would very much like to see webhooks made available to Integromat, which is both superior to and cheaper than Zapier. Being able to use instant triggers from Coda in Integromat would be extremely useful.
