Feature request: Webhooks

Lmk if you need any technical input or suggestions

Yes please. So this is about outgoing webhooks — I mean, Talkyard POSTs data to by you configurable URLs, when something happens in Talkyard?

What data would you want to be included in a webhook for example? To create new things in Monday or Trello, I suppose you need the new topic title and url at least — what about the topic text, and author name?

a user's interactions ... every time they make a new page/thread, or a post

Then I'm guessing it'd also be nice to know the name of the person who replied, what s/he wrote, and who s/he replied to?

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This'd be a nice thing to do next (just making Talkyard work well with Azure AD first)
— because next on the roadmap is to slightly integrate Talkyard with Mattermost, Slack etc. And they have incoming webhooks, e.g. Mattermost:

Incoming webhooks let you POST some data to a Mattermost endpoint to create a message in a channel.

[The webhook looks] something like this:

https://your-mattermost-server.com/hooks/xxx-generatedkey-xxx

Treat this endpoint as a secret. Anyone who has it will be able to post messages to your Mattermost instance.

... make the following request:

POST /hooks/xxx-generatedkey-xxx HTTP/1.1
Host: your-mattermost-server
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: 63

{"text": "Hello, this is some text\nThis is more text. :tada:"}

And it seems you need sort of the same thing?
You (or is it Trello and Monday) also have incoming webhooks?

Should Talkyard post directly to Trello or Monday etc — or to a server of yours, which maybe would look at the message, possibly transform it somehow, and forward it to Trello, Monday etc, maybe depending on what type of message it is?

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Here's what Mattermost includes in their outgoing webhooks: (https://developers.mattermost.com/integrate/outgoing-webhooks/ )

Outgoing webhooks let you receive an event as an HTTP POST when messages get posted into a Mattermost channel

POST /your-url HTTP/1.1
Content-Length: 378
Host: <your-host-name>
Accept: application/json
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "channel_id": "hawos4dqtby53pd64o4a4cmeoo",
  "channel_name": "town-square",
  "team_domain": "someteam",
  "team_id": "kwoknj9nwpypzgzy78wkw516qe",
  "post_id": "axdygg1957njfe5pu38saikdho",
  "text": "some text here",
  "timestamp": "1445532266",
  "token": "zmigewsanbbsdf59xnmduzypjc",
  "trigger_word": "some",
  "user_id": "rnina9994bde8mua79zqcg5hmo",
  "user_name": "somename",
  "file_ids": "znana9194bde8mua70zqcg5hmo"
}

And:

Upon receiving one of these requests, your integration should immediately confirm that the token provided in the request body matches the one given to you after the webhook was created