Learn how to setup the webhook integration and get fine-grain control over what entry types are sent and received.

Before you begin

This guide assumes you already have a your local environment set up for development on the Meya platform and that you’re connected to a test app you can experiment with.

If you’re using a virtual environment, make sure it’s activated.

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If you haven’t setup your local environment yet, check out Getting started with local Meya development.

Add integration secrets

1. Open vault.yaml and add the following lines:

webhook.postback_url: xxx
webhook.api_key: xxx

2. Open vault.secret.yaml and add the following lines:

webhook.postback_url: <YOUR_WEBHOOK_URL>
webhook.api_key: <API_KEY>

Save the files. Open a terminal in your app’s folder and run this command:

meya vault upload --file vault.secret.yaml

Create the integration

1. In your app’s main folder, create a folder called integration, if it doesn’t already exist. Inside, create a file called webhook.yaml and enter this code:

type: meya.webhook.integration
postback_url: (@ vault.webhook.postback_url )
api_key: (@ vault.webhook.api_key )

Save the file, and push the code to the Grid using this command in your terminal:

meya push

Test the integration

1. In the chat simulator, trigger a flow. Go to the Logs page and search for your webhook URL using this query:

url:"<YOUR_WEBHOOK_URL>"

You should see some meya.http.entry.request and meya.http.entry.response entries.

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You should now have a working webhook integration. Keep reading to learn how to customize the types of entries that are sent to your webhook.

Filtering webhook entries

You can easily configure the webhook integration to only send or receive certain entry types.

String filters

You can use GridQL queries to create complex filters. Here’s how:

1. Open integration/webhook.yaml and add the following lines:

filter:
  tx: >
      meya.text.event
      AND NOT text:*purple*

This tells the app to only send tx entries to the webhook if they are meya.text.event type entries and that do not include the word purple.

Save, then push the code:

meya push

2. In the chat simulator type purple and then check the logs using this search query:

url:"<YOUR_WEBHOOK_URL>"

You should see a single meya.http.entry.request and meya.http.entry.response which is the bot saying that it didn’t understand the input.

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If any of your flows has a trigger setup to handle input like purple, you may see a different number of meya.http.entry.* entries for your webhook, but you won’t see one with "text":”purple”.

Boolean filters

In addition to specifying a string query, you can also use a boolean value to disable sending or receiving entries via the webhook integration.

This filter, for example, disables sending entries to the webhook altogether:

filter:
  tx: false