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Re:Show HN: We built a developer-first open-source Zapier al... by Jiger104 on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @02:01PM (#34615745)
Zapier has a python / JS code step (basically a AWS lambda) you can use to do something like this. Downside is that it has a timeout of 10s
Re:Show HN: We built a developer-first open-source Zapier al... by nirga on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @02:09PM (#34615888)
Huh cool thanks I didn’t know that! I guess it’s just another action and not something “native” to Zapier (so if you want to later connect it to some off-the-shelf action you can’t).
Re:Show HN: We built a developer-first open-source Zapier al... by robbiemitchell on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @05:00PM (#34618521)
You can connect code steps to other actions. For example, every Python code step has a reserved `output` variable which allows you to pass a list out to the next steps. It gets passed as stringified JSON: if it contains dicts, those values are made available automatically as inputs to other steps. You can also pass more complex, nested JSON and just json.loads it later.
Re:Show HN: We built a developer-first open-source Zapier al... by realusername on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @11:29PM (#34622087)
And the second downside is that you don't necessarily get the same data as the normal no-code steps...

It's still a mess to manage arrays and arguments auto-split by commas