Send Email with Amazon SES API on New Action Performed from PostHog API

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Getting Started#

This integration creates a workflow with a PostHog trigger and Amazon SES action. When you configure and deploy the workflow, it will run on Pipedream's servers 24x7 for free.

Select this integration
Configure the New Action Performed trigger
1. Connect your PostHog account
2. Configure timer
3. Select a Organization ID
4. Select a Project ID
Configure the Send Email action
1. Connect your Amazon SES account
2. Select a AWS Region
3. Configure To Addresses
4. Optional- Configure CC Addresses
5. Optional- Configure BCC Addresses
6. Optional- Configure Reply To Addresses
7. Configure Subject
8. Configure Text
9. Optional- Configure HTML
10. Configure From
Deploy the workflow
Send a test event to validate your setup
Turn on the trigger

Details#

This integration uses pre-built, source-available components from Pipedream's GitHub repo. These components are developed by Pipedream and the community, and verified and maintained by Pipedream.

To contribute an update to an existing component or create a new component, create a PR on GitHub. If you're new to Pipedream component development, you can start with quickstarts for trigger span and action development, and then review the component API reference.

Trigger#

New Action Performed on PostHog

Description:Emit new event when an action is performed in a project. [See the documentation](https://posthog.com/docs/api/query#post-api-projects-project_id-query)

Version:0.0.1

Key:posthog-new-action-performed

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PostHog Overview#

The PostHog API lets you track events, update user properties, and extract analytics to understand user behavior within your applications. Integrating this API into Pipedream workflows allows you to automate actions based on event data, sync user properties across platforms, and trigger alerts or notifications.

Trigger Code#

import posthog from "../../posthog.app.mjs";
import { DEFAULT_POLLING_SOURCE_TIMER_INTERVAL } from "@pipedream/platform";

export default {
  key: "posthog-new-action-performed",
  name: "New Action Performed",
  description: "Emit new event when an action is performed in a project. [See the documentation](https://posthog.com/docs/api/query#post-api-projects-project_id-query)",
  version: "0.0.1",
  type: "source",
  dedupe: "unique",
  props: {
    posthog,
    db: "$.service.db",
    timer: {
      type: "$.interface.timer",
      default: {
        intervalSeconds: DEFAULT_POLLING_SOURCE_TIMER_INTERVAL,
      },
    },
    organizationId: {
      propDefinition: [
        posthog,
        "organizationId",
      ],
    },
    projectId: {
      propDefinition: [
        posthog,
        "projectId",
        (c) => ({
          organizationId: c.organizationId,
        }),
      ],
    },
  },
  hooks: {
    async deploy() {
      await this.processEvent(25);
    },
  },
  methods: {
    _getLastTs() {
      return this.db.get("lastTs");
    },
    _setLastTs(lastTs) {
      this.db.set("lastTs", lastTs);
    },
    emitEvent(event) {
      const meta = this.generateMeta(event);
      this.$emit(event, meta);
    },
    generateMeta(event) {
      return {
        id: event.uuid,
        summary: `New ${event.event} event`,
        ts: Date.parse(event.timestamp),
      };
    },
    buildQuery(limit) {
      const lastTs = this._getLastTs();
      let query = "SELECT * FROM events";
      if (lastTs) {
        query += ` WHERE timestamp > '${lastTs}'`;
      }
      query += " ORDER BY timestamp DESC";
      if (limit) {
        query += ` LIMIT ${limit}`;
      }
      return query;
    },
    formatEvents(columns, results) {
      return results.map((result) => {
        const values = {};
        for (let i = 0; i < columns.length; i++) {
          values[columns[i]] = result[i];
        }
        return values;
      });
    },
    async processEvent(limit) {
      const {
        columns, results,
      } = await this.posthog.createQuery({
        projectId: this.projectId,
        data: {
          query: {
            kind: "HogQLQuery",
            query: this.buildQuery(limit),
          },
        },
      });
      const events = this.formatEvents(columns, results);
      if (!events?.length) {
        return;
      }
      this._setLastTs(events[0].timestamp.slice(0, 19));
      events.reverse().forEach((event) => this.emitEvent(event));
    },
  },
  async run() {
    await this.processEvent();
  },
};

Trigger Configuration#

This component may be configured based on the props defined in the component code. Pipedream automatically prompts for input values in the UI and CLI.

Label	Prop	Type	Description
PostHog	`posthog`	`app`	This component uses the PostHog app.
N/A	`db`	`$.service.db`	This component uses `$.service.db` to maintain state between executions.
	`timer`	`$.interface.timer`
Organization ID	`organizationId`	`string`	Select a value from the drop down menu.
Project ID	`projectId`	`string`	Select a value from the drop down menu.

Trigger Authentication#

PostHog uses API keys for authentication. When you connect your PostHog account, Pipedream securely stores the keys so you can easily authenticate to PostHog APIs in both code and no-code steps.

To retrieve your API Key,

Navigate to your PostHog account and sign in
Click on your name/avatar on the top right
Click the gear next to your name to access “Account settings“
Scroll down to “Personal API Keys”

About PostHog#

Product Analytics? Session Recording? Feature Flags? Experiments? PostHog does that. Open source, backed by @ycombinator

Action#

Send Email on Amazon SES

Description:Send an email using Amazon SES. Supports simple email messaging. [See the docs](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSJavaScriptSDK/v3/latest/clients/client-sesv2/classes/sendemailcommand.html)

Version:0.9.0

Key:amazon_ses-send-email

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Amazon SES Overview#

Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) is a powerful cloud-based email sending service designed to help digital marketers and application developers send marketing, notification, and transactional emails. With the SES API, you can reliably send emails at scale, manage sender reputations, view email sending statistics, and maintain a high deliverability rate. Leveraging Pipedream's capabilities, you can integrate SES seamlessly into serverless workflows, automate email responses based on triggers from other apps, and analyze the effectiveness of your email campaigns by connecting to data analytics platforms.

Action Code#

import base from "../common/base.mjs";
import { ConfigurationError } from "@pipedream/platform";

export default {
  key: "amazon_ses-send-email",
  name: "Send Email",
  description: "Send an email using Amazon SES. Supports simple email messaging. [See the docs](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSJavaScriptSDK/v3/latest/clients/client-sesv2/classes/sendemailcommand.html)",
  version: "0.9.0",
  type: "action",
  props: {
    ...base.props,
    ToAddresses: {
      propDefinition: [
        base.props.amazonSes,
        "ToAddresses",
      ],
    },
    CcAddresses: {
      propDefinition: [
        base.props.amazonSes,
        "CcAddresses",
      ],
    },
    BccAddresses: {
      propDefinition: [
        base.props.amazonSes,
        "BccAddresses",
      ],
    },
    ReplyToAddresses: {
      propDefinition: [
        base.props.amazonSes,
        "ReplyToAddresses",
      ],
    },
    Subject: {
      propDefinition: [
        base.props.amazonSes,
        "Subject",
      ],
    },
    Text: {
      propDefinition: [
        base.props.amazonSes,
        "Text",
      ],
      default: "",
    },
    Html: {
      propDefinition: [
        base.props.amazonSes,
        "Html",
      ],
      optional: true,
    },
    FromEmailAddress: {
      propDefinition: [
        base.props.amazonSes,
        "FromEmailAddress",
      ],
    },
  },
  async run({ $ }) {
    if (!(this.Text || this.Html)) {
      throw new ConfigurationError("Email Text or HTML must be supplied");
    }

    const params = {
      Content: {
        Simple: {
          Subject: this.amazonSes.createCharsetContent(this.Subject),
          Body: {
            Text: this.amazonSes.createCharsetContent(this.Text),
          },
        },
      },
      Destination: {
        ToAddresses: this.ToAddresses,
        CcAddresses: this.CcAddresses,
        BccAddresses: this.BccAddresses,
      },
      FromEmailAddress: this.FromEmailAddress,
      ReplyToAddresses: this.ReplyToAddresses,
    };

    if (this.Html) {
      params.Content.Simple.Body.Html = this.amazonSes.createCharsetContent(this.Html);
    }

    const response = await this.amazonSes.sendEmail(this.region, params);
    $.export("$summary", "Sent email successfully");
    return response;
  },
};

Action Configuration#

This component may be configured based on the props defined in the component code. Pipedream automatically prompts for input values in the UI.

Label	Prop	Type	Description
Amazon SES	`amazonSes`	`app`	This component uses the Amazon SES app.
AWS Region	`region`	`string`	Select a value from the drop down menu.
To Addresses	`ToAddresses`	`string[]`	An array of recipient email addresses you want to send to
CC Addresses	`CcAddresses`	`string[]`	An array of email addresses you want to CC
BCC Addresses	`BccAddresses`	`string[]`	An array of email addresses you want to BCC
Reply To Addresses	`ReplyToAddresses`	`string[]`	An array of reply-to addresses
Subject	`Subject`	`string`	The email subject line. Use `\{\{` and `\}\}` to insert tags. Example: `This is a \{\{tagname\}\}`.
Text	`Text`	`string`	The email body that will be visible to recipients whose email clients do not display HTML. Use `\{\{` and `\}\}` to insert tags. Example: `This is a \{\{tagname\}\}`.
HTML	`Html`	`string`	The HTML email body. Use `\{\{` and `\}\}` to insert tags. Example: `This is a \{\{tagname\}\}`.
From	`FromEmailAddress`	`string`	The email from which the email is addressed

Action Authentication#

Amazon SES uses API keys for authentication. When you connect your Amazon SES account, Pipedream securely stores the keys so you can easily authenticate to Amazon SES APIs in both code and no-code steps.

Follow the AWS Instructions for creating an IAM user with an associated access and secret key, with the minimum IAM permissions necessary to send email or hit the desired SES APIs from Pipedream.

Enter the access and secret key below.