Why am I Getting a 500 Response while Deploying a Trigger using the Python SDK on Pipedream?

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Hi team, I’m trying to use the Python SDK to deploy a trigger (Deploy trigger - Pipedream). I’m consistently getting a 500 response from the Pipedream API:

headers: {'date': 'Thu, 20 Nov 2025 16:08:54 GMT', 'content-type': 'application/json', 'content-length': '148', 'connection': 'keep-alive', 'x-frame-options': 'SAMEORIGIN', 'x-xss-protection': '1; mode=block', 'x-content-type-options': 'nosniff', 'x-download-options': 'noopen', 'x-permitted-cross-domain-policies': 'none', 'referrer-policy': 'strict-origin-when-cross-origin', 'x-async-handle': 'async_responses:{netminder-7c89d46696-25gpv} 35kXE4lpOXprq8rludFgWCSHwpM', 'vary': 'Accept, Accept-Encoding, Origin', 'x-runtime': '5.408624', 'cache-control': 'no-cache', 'x-request-id': 'b44ab576-8a6f-406d-9b88-176d926c4a99'}, status_code: 500, body: {'error': 'unexpected error', 'err': 'An unexpected error occurred, please reach out to our team at https://pipedream.com/support', 'observations': None}

Can I get some help with debugging this? Not sure if I’m doing something wrong on my end or if it’s actually a bug with Pipedream. One thing to note is that immediately prior to this error, I’m able to successfully fetch account information using the SDK (List accounts - Pipedream).

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More often than not this is an error in the trigger code. Can you share that? (if you want to share it via DM no problem)

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Sure, will DM you.

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Just to close the loop here for posterity in case anyone else encounters something similar - it turns out the issue was that I had authed with slack but the trigger I was trying to deploy required authing with slack_v2. It worked as expected after switching to slack_v2. Thanks for the assistance!

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as a nit / ask from folks consuming the api - since this was user error, should it be a 400 status code instead of 500?