Pipedream Connect

Pipedream Connect is the easiest way for your users to connect to over 2,400+ APIs, right in your product. You can build in-app messaging, CRM syncs, AI agents, and much more, all in a few minutes. Visit the quickstart to build your first integration.

You have full, code-level control over how these integrations work in your app. You handle your product, Pipedream simplifies the integration.

Connect lets you:

1. Handle authorization or accept API keys on behalf of your users, for any of Pipedream’s 2,400+ APIs. Use the Client SDK or Connect Link to accept auth in minutes.
2. Securely retrieve OAuth access tokens, API keys, and other credentials for your end users with Pipedream’s REST API
3. Run workflows for your end users with Pipedream’s workflow builder, serverless runtime, and thousands of no-code triggers and actions. Build complex integrations in minutes, writing code when you need it and using no-code components when you don’t. Pipedream workflows are easy to modify, debug, and scale.
4. Embed any Pipedream action or trigger to run on behalf of your users, directly from within your application.

Use cases

Pipedream Connect lets you build any API integration into your product in minutes. Our customers build:

• In-app messaging: Send messages to Slack, Discord, Microsoft Teams, or any app directly from your product.
• CRM syncs: Sync data between your app and Salesforce, HubSpot, or any CRM
• AI products: Talk to any AI API or LLM, interacting with your users or running AI-driven asynchronous tasks
• Spreadsheet integrations: Sync data between your app and Google Sheets, Airtable, or any spreadsheet

and much more.

Getting started

Watch the demo or visit the quickstart to build your first integration.

App configuration for OAuth apps

Pipedream has more than 2,400 apps available for you to integrate via Connect. Getting started is easy — just follow the quickstart to get up and running.

By default, apps that use OAuth to authenticate will use Pipedream’s official OAuth client. To deploy your integrations to production, you’ll need to configure your own OAuth client. Read more about OAuth clients in Pipedream here.

Let us know if the app you’re looking for isn’t listed here.

Users

To view or delete your users’ connected accounts:

1. Open your project
2. Click the Connect tab on the left
3. Click the Users tab at the top

You’ll see a list of all users, their connected accounts, and the option to delete any accounts from the UI. You can also retrieve and delete all your users via the API (see the docs for reference).

Plans and pricing

Managed authentication with Connect is free to use for up to 1,000 connected accounts for any workspace. Check out our pricing page for details on running workflows and embedding components in your app.

Security

Pipedream takes the security of our products seriously. See details on Connect security and our general security docs. Please send us any questions or suspected vulnerabilities. You can also get a copy of our SOC 2 Type 2 report, sign HIPAA BAAs, and get information on other practices and controls.

Storing user credentials, token refresh

All credentials and tokens are sent to Pipedream securely over HTTPS, and encrypted at rest. See our security docs on credentials for more information.

How to secure your Connect apps

• Secure all secrets — Secure your Pipedream OAuth client credentials, and especially any user credentials. Never expose secrets in your client-side code. Make all requests to Pipedream’s API and third-party APIs from your server-side code.
• Use HTTPS — Always use HTTPS to secure your connections between your client and server. Requests to Pipedream’s API will be automatically redirected to HTTPS.
• Use secure, session-based auth between your client and server — authorize all requests from your client to your server using a secure, session-based auth mechanism. Use well-known identity providers with services like Clerk, Firebase, or Auth0 to securely generate and validate authentication tokens. The same follows for Pipedream workflows — if you trigger Pipedream workflows from your client or server, validate all requests in the workflow before executing workflow code.
• Secure your workflows — See our standard security practices for recommendations on securing your Pipedream workflows.

Glossary of terms

• App: GitHub, Notion, Slack, Google Sheets, and more. The app is the API you want your users to connect to in your product. See the full list here.
• Developer: This is probably you, the Pipedream customer who’s developing an app and wants to use Connect to make API requests on behalf of your end users.
• End User: Your customer or user, whose data you want to access on their behalf. End users are identifed via the external_user_id param in the Connect SDK and API.
• Connected Account: The account your end user connects. Read more about connected accounts.
• OAuth Client: Custom OAuth clients you create in Pipedream. Read more about OAuth clients.