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Automate anything in minutes with Snowflake + Pipedream

Automate anything in minutes with Snowflake + Pipedream

Pipedream lets you connect Snowflake to a forest of apps: it supports 1,000+ integrations, Snowflake triggers and actions, and code-level control for your automations. Learn how to connect Snowflake, ChatGPT, and Slack in 5 minutes.

Integrate ChatGPT with 1,000 other apps

Integrate ChatGPT with 1,000 other apps

Today, we've released a new set of OpenAI actions: Chat — Interact with the Chat APISolve specific problems — Use actions to Summarize Text, Classify Items into Categories, and more.Create Transcription — Transcribe audio to text in any languageCreate Embeddings — Create embeddings for search, recommendations, and other relatedness problems.These supplement the

Post-mortem on our 2/13 AWS incident

Post-mortem on our 2/13 AWS incident

On Tuesday, 2/13, Pipedream workflow executions, tests, and deploys suffered a major outage related to an AWS Lambda incident specific to our account. This post documents what happened and what we’re doing to reduce the risk that it affects us again. How Pipedream runs workflowsPipedream uses AWS in

Tips & Tutorials

Using GPT-3 to Create a Bot that Transforms Tweets into Poetry - No Coding Experience Necessary!

With the help of GPT-3, and Pipedream's innovative HTTP request builder tool, you can now turn tweets into poems - without any coding experience! In this blog post, we will guide you through the process of using GPT-3 to build a bot that can turn tweets into beautiful short poems.

Introducing the Pipedream Source Available License

Introducing the Pipedream Source Available License

TL;DR - We’ve changed our license from the MIT License to the new Pipedream Source Available License. We wanted to share why we made this change and what it means for our users and contributors. When we started Pipedream, we strongly believed that all the components in our

How to send messages to a channel with a Discord Bot

How to send messages to a channel with a Discord Bot

With a Pipedream workflow, you can send messages to Discord with your own Discord Bot. In this week's Speed Run, we use a new Trello card to trigger the workflow, but this process works with webhooks or any of the thousands of app triggers available in Pipedream. Building a Discord

How to connect to and insert data into Supabase with Pipedream

How to connect to and insert data into Supabase with Pipedream

Supabase is an on-demand platform to quickly launch a Postgres powered database hosted on the cloud. In less than 5 minutes you can spin up a free database with a real time API. Under the hood, Supabase databases are powered by Postgres, which means you can use the Pipedream Postgres

Adding commands to your Telegram Bot with Pipedream Workflows

Telegram bots can respond to slash commands, just like Slack. In Pipedream you can easily integrate with your Telegram Bot and reply to slash commands from direct messages or in channels - with very little code of course! Copy this workflow to get started, or follow the steps below! Creating

Airtable as an Approval Queue with Pipedream

Airtable as an Approval Queue with Pipedream

No only can you trigger a Pipedream workflow with a button in Airtable, but you can also suspend a live workflow until it's approved by a real person in Airtable. Why would you use an approval queue?This is very handy to add a human-in-the-loop for pausing a Pipedream automation

Build a Slack Slash Command - in less than 10 minutes

Build a Slack Slash Command - in less than 10 minutes

In this Speed Run episode, we'll show you how to build a Slack Slash command with a Pipedream workflow in less than 10 minutes. What is a slash command?Slash commands are pre-defined actions on Slack to trigger a query or an action. A great example is the /remind slash

Archiving Slack threads to Discourse with GPT-3

Tips & Tutorials

Archiving Slack threads to Discourse with GPT-3

We operate a public Slack community at Pipedream. Our users love the quick, synchronous chat, and the communication happens in public, so it's easy for others to find answers to common questions. But these messages are private to Slack. You can't search Google for answers — you've got to sign up

Set up Shopify GDPR Webhooks without code

Set up Shopify GDPR Webhooks without code

You're so close to launching your Shopify App on the Shopify App Store. You've created your listing, crafted an entire app, and ready to launch. But oh no, the App Review team says you haven't implemented the mandatory GDPR webhooks! Learn how to build a workflow to set up the

Publish Notion pages as blog posts to your JAMstack site

Publish Notion pages as blog posts to your JAMstack site

Use this Pipedream workflow to publish your Notion posts to your static site generator of choice.

Adding background jobs to Next.js with QStash

Adding background jobs to Next.js with QStash

Learn how to add Background Job Processing to a Next.js site using QStash. QStash offers background job processing as a service over an HTTP API.

Using Airtable as a Database with Next.js

Using Airtable as a Database with Next.js

Airtable and Next.js are like the chocolate and peanut butter of JAMstack. Leverage static site generation and spreadsheet-as-a-db with Pipedream.

Adding a Contact Form to Next.js on Vercel

Adding a Contact Form to Next.js on Vercel

Here's a contact form component you can use in your Next.js project hosted on Vercel - without using a Next.js API route! We'll use an HTTP request from our Next.js frontend to trigger a Pipedream workflow to notify us on new contact form submissions. Adding a Contact

Scraping URL metadata with an NPM package in a Node.js code step

Scraping URL metadata with an NPM package in a Node.js code step

Not only can you write custom code in Pipedream workflows, but you can install and use any NPM package as well. We'll use metadata-scraper in this episode. Scraping a URL's metadata with a low code Node.js stepThe Node.js codeYou can copy & paste this code sample below into

Scraping Discourse with a custom Pipedream Source

Scraping Discourse with a custom Pipedream Source

Follow along as we build a custom Pipedream Source that scrapes an entire database of Discourse topics via it's REST API and a Pipedream Source component. Open a Gitpod Development EnvironmentFirst, open a Gitpod Development Environment so you can follow along in a dedicated window. Just open this link to

Trigger a Pipedream workflow from an Airtable Base button

Trigger a Pipedream workflow from an Airtable Base button

Learn how to add interactivity to your Airtable bases with Pipedream workflows. This will enrich your manual Airtable data tracking with low-code flows. Trigger a Pipedream workflow from an Airtable Base buttonCreating the button in AirtableIn your Airtable base, add a new button field. This will open a prompt to

Log workflow errors to AWS Cloudwatch

Log workflow errors to AWS Cloudwatch

Using subscriptions, you can create a pub/sub model relationship between workflows. Watch this short tutorial to learn how to create a custom error logging workflow that will log all of your Pipedream errors to CloudWatch. You can create subscriptions between workflows with the Pipedream REST API, or our brand

Building a custom Pipedream action component with Gitpod

Building a custom Pipedream action component with Gitpod

In this Speed Run, learn how to Gitpod powered Component Development Environment to build a custom action and use it in your Pipedream account. All you need to do is open up this URL to start your own project: https://gitpod.io/#https://github.com/PipedreamHQ/pipedream Using Gitpod is

Performing Shopify Bulk Operations in one workflow with $.flow.rerun

Performing Shopify Bulk Operations in one workflow with $.flow.rerun

Now, with $.flow.rerun in Pipedream workflows, you can leverage the Shopify Bulk Operation API to perform big data queries in one workflow with ease.

Add Preview Screenshots to Gitlab Merge Requests with Browserless

Add Preview Screenshots to Gitlab Merge Requests with Browserless

In this Speed Run, we build a bot that automatically adds a screenshot of our latest frontend changes to our website on a Gitlab Merge Request. No code!

Automate customer support with Dialogflow

Automate customer support with Dialogflow

In this week's Speed Run, we learn how to connect Dialogflow with Pipedream and generate dynamic responses to customer support requests without code.

How to build a bot to download the latest /r/gifs posts on Reddit

How to build a bot to download the latest /r/gifs posts on Reddit

All Pipedream workflows have just been upgraded from 512 megabytes of storage to a full 2 gigabytes of storage. For free! So in this week's episode we're going to show a quick example of how to store the latest video previews of posts to /r/gifs in a workflow. Not