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Canny ACTION

Create Comment

Create a comment. See the documentation
  • Action
  • Writes data
  • API key
  • SDK
  • MCP

IMPLEMENTATION

Call this tool

Connect a user's Canny account once, then configure and run Create Comment from your backend or agent.

import { PipedreamClient } from "@pipedream/sdk"

const pd = new PipedreamClient({
  projectId: process.env.PIPEDREAM_PROJECT_ID!,
  clientId: process.env.PIPEDREAM_CLIENT_ID!,
  clientSecret: process.env.PIPEDREAM_CLIENT_SECRET!,
  projectEnvironment: "production",
})

const result = await pd.actions.run({
  id: "canny-create-comment",
  externalUserId: "{external_user_id}", // any stable ID for this user in your system
  configuredProps: {
    canny: { authProvisionId: "apn_xxxxxxx" },
    authorId: "Author ID",
    postId: "Post ID",
  },
})

console.log(result)

SCHEMA

Inputs

Pipedream supplies the connected account. Your application provides the operation-specific values below. Dynamic inputs are resolved against that user's account.

Create Comment inputs
Property Type Description
authorId Author ID string
The ID of the author of the comment
Required Dynamic
postId Post ID string
The ID of the post to comment on
Required Dynamic
value Value string
The comment value. Optional if imageURLs are provided. Must be under 2500 characters.
Optional
imageUrls Image URLs string[]
An array of the URLs of comment's images
Optional
parentId Parent ID string
The ID of the parent comment
Optional Dynamic
shouldNotifyVoters Should Notify Voters boolean
Whether this comment should be allowed to trigger email notifications. Default is false.
Optional

REFERENCE

Tool details

Behavior hints are published with the component in the Pipedream registry and surface as MCP tool annotations, so an agent can reason about a tool before it calls it.

Registry key
canny-create-comment
Version
0.0.1
App
Canny
Authentication
API key
Read-only
No
Destructive
No
Open world
Yes