How Can I Access Pipedream Data Stores via a REST API?

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Hi! How can access Pipedream Data Stores via a REST API? I want to look up some values stored by my Workflow from code

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Hi there, here are our docs on how you can access Data Stores from within code steps Using Data Stores

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Thanks Danny for you reply. I am in Golang and I came up with a different solution hitting https://api.pipedream.com/graphql directly. Is this use case allowed? I don’t see it documented on the website or in Slack history

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I’d recommend not hitting the /graphql API directly, since that’s a private API and subject to change.

Would this work?

  1. Create an HTTP-triggered workflow that’s set to issue a custom response
  2. Fetch the data you need from the data store, given the params / body of the incoming HTTP request
  3. Return the response
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you can add any auth layer you want to the workflow to allow only authorized requests

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Thanks ! Yes I think that will work. One of my integrations calls myStoreKeyDelete mutation, so I definitely want to add an auth layer. Not sure how to do that yet. As a lifetime requestbin user I’m not used to having so many helpful modules, this is actually really awesome now that I understand what to do next, thanks again!! Since I already got everything working and this isn’t in my hot-path, is it okay if I wait until it breaks to revisit this using the gui tooling?

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What’s the volume of writes? I want to make sure it’s OK with our team, and want to make sure we don’t block you on accident, too

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Less than 100 per day for this workflow. Thank you if it works out!

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That should be fine, thanks. Here’s a small guide on the auth piece. You have a lot of options, since you can add any auth layer that would work in Node.js (e.g. static key, JWT, etc.)