Create Message with Cisco Webex API

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Getting Started#

Create a workflow to Create Message with the Cisco Webex API. When you configure and deploy the workflow, it will run on Pipedream's servers 24x7 for free.

Configure the Create Message action
1. Connect your Cisco Webex account
2. Configure Text
3. Optional- Configure Markdown
4. Optional- Configure Person ID
5. Optional- Configure To Person Email
6. Optional- Select a Room ID
7. Optional- Select a Parent ID
8. Optional- Configure File
Select a trigger to run your workflow on HTTP requests, schedules or app events
Deploy the workflow
Send a test event to validate your setup
Turn on the trigger

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Details#

This is a pre-built, source-available component from Pipedream's GitHub repo. The component is developed by Pipedream and the community, and verified and maintained by Pipedream.

To contribute an update to an existing component or create a new component, create a PR on GitHub. If you're new to Pipedream component development, you can start with quickstarts for trigger span and action development, and then review the component API reference.

Create Message on Cisco Webex

Description:Post a plain text or [rich text](https://developer.webex.com/docs/basics#formatting-messages) message, and optionally, a [file attachment](https://developer.webex.com/docs/basics#message-attachments), to a room. [See the docs here](https://developer.webex.com/docs/api/v1/messages/create-a-message)

Version:0.1.0

Key:cisco_webex-create-message

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Code#

import ciscoWebex from "../../cisco_webex.app.mjs";

export default {
  key: "cisco_webex-create-message",
  name: "Create Message",
  description: "Post a plain text or [rich text](https://developer.webex.com/docs/basics#formatting-messages) message, and optionally, a [file attachment](https://developer.webex.com/docs/basics#message-attachments), to a room. [See the docs here](https://developer.webex.com/docs/api/v1/messages/create-a-message)",
  type: "action",
  version: "0.1.0",
  props: {
    ciscoWebex,
    text: {
      type: "string",
      label: "Text",
      description: "The message, in plain text. If markdown is specified this parameter may be optionally used to provide alternate text for UI clients that do not support rich text. The maximum message length is 7439 bytes.",
    },
    markdown: {
      type: "string",
      label: "Markdown",
      description: "The message, in Markdown format. The maximum message length is 7439 bytes.",
      optional: true,
    },
    toPersonId: {
      propDefinition: [
        ciscoWebex,
        "personId",
      ],
      optional: true,
    },
    toPersonEmail: {
      type: "string",
      label: "To Person Email",
      description: "The email address of the recipient when sending a private 1:1 message.",
      optional: true,
    },
    roomId: {
      optional: true,
      propDefinition: [
        ciscoWebex,
        "roomId",
      ],
    },
    parentId: {
      optional: true,
      propDefinition: [
        ciscoWebex,
        "messageId",
        ({ roomId }) => ({
          roomId,
        }),
      ],
    },
    file: {
      type: "string",
      label: "File",
      description: "The public URL to a binary file to be posted into the room. (E.g. `http://www.example.com/images/media.png`)",
      optional: true,
    },
  },
  async run({ $ }) {
    const {
      roomId,
      parentId,
      toPersonId,
      toPersonEmail,
      text,
      markdown,
      file,
    } = this;

    const files = file && [
      file,
    ] || undefined;

    const response =
      await this.ciscoWebex.createMessage({
        data: {
          roomId,
          parentId,
          toPersonId,
          toPersonEmail,
          text,
          markdown,
          files,
        },
      });

    $.export("$summary", `Successfully posted message with ID ${response.id}`);

    return response;
  },
};

Configuration#

This component may be configured based on the props defined in the component code. Pipedream automatically prompts for input values in the UI and CLI.

Label	Prop	Type	Description
Cisco Webex	`ciscoWebex`	`app`	This component uses the Cisco Webex app.
Text	`text`	`string`	The message, in plain text. If markdown is specified this parameter may be optionally used to provide alternate text for UI clients that do not support rich text. The maximum message length is 7439 bytes.
Markdown	`markdown`	`string`	The message, in Markdown format. The maximum message length is 7439 bytes.
Person ID	`toPersonId`	`string`	The person ID of the recipient when sending a private 1:1 message.
To Person Email	`toPersonEmail`	`string`	The email address of the recipient when sending a private 1:1 message.
Room ID	`roomId`	`string`	Select a value from the drop down menu.
Parent ID	`parentId`	`string`	Select a value from the drop down menu.
File	`file`	`string`	The public URL to a binary file to be posted into the room. (E.g. `http://www.example.com/images/media.png`)

Authentication#

Cisco Webex uses OAuth authentication. When you connect your Cisco Webex account, Pipedream will open a popup window where you can sign into Cisco Webex and grant Pipedream permission to connect to your account. Pipedream securely stores and automatically refreshes the OAuth tokens so you can easily authenticate any Cisco Webex API.

Pipedream requests the following authorization scopes when you connect your account:

spark:allspark-admin:people_readspark-admin:people_writespark:devices_readspark:devices_write