Connect Link provides a Pipedream-hosted link that lets you connect third-party accounts without any frontend implementation in your app.

If you aren’t able to execute JavaScript or open an iFrame in your frontend, or you want to send users a URL to connect accounts via email or SMS, use Connect Link. That URL opens a Pipedream-hosted page that guides the user through the account connection flow. The URL is scoped to the specific end user, and expires after 4 hours.

See the Connect quickstart for a full tutorial for getting Connect up and running.

Here’s a quick overview of how to generate a Connect Link URL:

  1. First, generate a token for your users.
  2. Extract the connect_link_url from the token response.
  3. Before returning the URL to your user, add an app parameter to the end of the query string:
https://pipedream.com/_static/connect.html?token={token}&connectLink=true&app={appSlug}
  1. Redirect your users to this URL, or send it to them via email, SMS, and more.

To test this code, check out this workflow: https://pipedream.com/new?h=tch_4RfjXN

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Success and error redirect URLs

To automatically redirect users somewhere after they complete the connection flow (or if an error occurs), define the success_redirect_uri and error_redirect_uri parameters during token creation. See the API docs for details.

In the absence of these URLs, Pipedream will redirect the user to a Pipedream-hosted success or error page at the end of the connection flow.