Webhooks
What the Webhooks feature is for, and how to use it
What the Webhooks feature is for
Sometimes instead of using one of our built-in integrations, you will need to send User Data out to an external application that we don’t yet support, or perhaps a custom application of your own (e.g. your own API or database).
Webhooks are perfect for that scenario, and Embeddables has a dedicated Webhooks feature that you can use.
What are Webhooks? Webhooks are a technology that are similar to APIs except they work in the reverse direction!
So while the provider of an API listens for requests from other applications (and responds accordingly), the provider of a webhook sends events to any applications that tell it they’re listening for events.
In other words, with APIs each event is triggered by the external application, whereas with webhooks each event is triggered by the webhook provider themselves.
How to use Webhooks in Embeddables
Webhooks in Embeddables are powered by Svix, an excellent service that integrates nicely into our systems and handles all the detailed features that we would ever want to build.
The rest of this page is queued up to be completed soon - watch this space!