Webhooks

Pushback uses webhook events to POST data to your server when a user interacts with your messages. In order to receive events you'll need to specify a webhook endpoint for each channel.

To set a webhook endpoint:

1. Click a channel in the sidebar
2. Select the channel tab on the top navigation
3. Enter webhook endpoint
4. Click save

Pushback uses graphql to allow you to explore the data with graphiql that will be posted to your webhook endpoint. You can even modify it so you only get the data you're interested in.

Currently there is a messageSent event and a replySent event. They both show up in the graphiql editor, but they are separte POST requests to your server. Only one of the fields will be populated when a event is executed.

For example if you edit the graphql to include the messageSent and replySent, you'll receive message and reply events. If you're only interested in replySent events, you would remove the messageSent from the graphiql editor and click save.

{
  # JSON object received when a message is sent, replySent will be null
  messageSent {
    id # Unique id for the message e.g. Message_122
    title
    body
  }
  # JSON object received when a reply is sent, messageSent will be null
  replySent {
    id # Unique id of the reply
    text # the action the user pressed
    message {
      id # Unique id of the message that the reply is tied to e.g. Message_122
      title
      body
    }
  }
}

When a message is sent, the JSON payload will look like this:

{
  "data": {
    "messageSent": {
      "id": "Message_122",
      "title": "Hello world",
      "body": "This is pushback"
    },
    "replySent": null,
  }

When a reply is sent, the JSON payload will look like this:

{
  "data": {
    "messageSent": null,
    "replySent": {
      "id": "Reply_1",
      "text": "Hi",
      "message": {
        "id": "Message_122",
        "title": "Hello world",
        "body": "This is pushback"
      }
    }
  }
}