Webhook and Automations

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HI,

i am starting to use n8n and fibery in combination to make some automation stuff happening on google contacts and others

now I run into this problem:
i have an automation on my contact type. so when i change a name it start the automation to clean up this name. that results in two updates on the contact-type… ergo two webhooks are fired.

in n8n i get that webhook result and because it fires double, also the automation in n8n runs twice …

any way of having a webhook “threshold” ?

or another solution would be to have a webhook triggered not automatically on every change but actually just when i hit a “sync” button on a contact entity. … that would be even better actually - as it would not trigger on every little change that is happening on a contact

any idea? :slight_smile:

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Not sure what you mean. Are you saying that when you rename a contact, the webhook fires twice?
Is this because of some automation in Fibery?

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exactly.

i have an automation, that puts Lastname, Firstname (namefield) into separate first and last name fields.

and this is triggered from an update

and so the webhook fires twice - once from the manual edit, once from the automation edit.

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I think it’s unlikely that we would implement webhook ‘batching’ or a ‘sync’ button. I think the expectation is that the recipient of the webhook firing should filter out changes that aren’t relevant.

BTW why is this actually a problem?:

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but it should be possible to write a script that sends data from that entity as json to a webservice like zapier/n8n?

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For a service like Zapier, you wouldn’t need to write a script to send data - the Fibery integration with Zapier supports ‘watching’ for changes. Then, if you specifically need JSON, you can use a Zapier module to format the data received as you need it.

I’m not too familiar with n8n, so I don’t know what’s possible, but since you have the changes in Fibery triggering in n8n, I don’t quite understand why there needs to be a ‘push’ from the Fibery side…

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It is possible to make http calls from within a Fibery script if that helps: . | Fibery