Integrate the Clerk API with the Amazon SES API

Setup the Clerk API trigger to run a workflow which integrates with the Amazon SES API. Pipedream's integration platform allows you to integrate Clerk and Amazon SES remarkably fast. Free for developers.

Popular Clerk and Amazon SES Actions#

Create User with the Clerk API

Creates a new user. Your user management settings determine how you should setup your user model. See the documentation

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Create Email Template with the Amazon SES API

Create a HTML or a plain text email template. See the docs

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Create User Invitation with the Clerk API

Creates a new invitation for the given email address and sends the invitation email. Keep in mind that you cannot create an invitation if there is already one for the given email address. Also, trying to create an invitation for an email address that already exists in your application will result to an error. See the documentation

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Get Email Template with the Amazon SES API

Get an email template. See the docs

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Delete User with the Clerk API

Delete the specified user. See the documentation

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Overview of Clerk#

The Clerk API lets you manage user authentication and create secure, delightful user experiences in your apps. Within Pipedream's serverless platform, you can harness this API to automate workflows that trigger on user events, sync user data across apps, and maintain robust user management without the heavy lifting of building authentication infrastructure from scratch.

Connect Clerk#

import { axios } from "@pipedream/platform"
export default defineComponent({
  props: {
    clerk: {
      type: "app",
      app: "clerk",
    }
  },
  async run({steps, $}) {
    return await axios($, {
      url: `https://api.clerk.com/v1/users`,
      headers: {
        Authorization: `Bearer ${this.clerk.$auth.secret_key}`,
      },
    })
  },
})

Overview of Amazon SES#

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.

Connect Amazon SES#

module.exports = defineComponent({
  props: {
    amazon_ses: {
      type: "app",
      app: "amazon_ses",
    }
  },
  async run({steps, $}) {
    const AWS = require("aws-sdk")
    const { accessKeyId, secretAccessKey } = this.amazon_ses.$auth
    
    const ses = new AWS.SES({
      accessKeyId, 
      secretAccessKey,
      region: 'us-east-1',
    })
    
    const sesParams = {
      Destination: {
        ToAddresses: ["<your email here>"],
      }, 
      Message: {
        Body: {
          Html: {
            Charset: "UTF-8", 
            Data: "<h1>This is a test</h1>",
          }, 
            Text: {
            Charset: "UTF-8", 
            Data: "This is a test",
          }
        }, 
        Subject: {
          Charset: "UTF-8", 
          Data: "Test email",
        }
      },
      Source: "<your from address here", 
    };
    
    this.resp = await ses.sendEmail(sesParams).promise()
  },
})