Run Automation with Browserhub API on New Employee Created from Personio API

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Getting Started#

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

Select this integration
Configure the New Employee Created trigger
1. Connect your Personio account
2. Configure Polling interval
Configure the Run Automation action
1. Connect your Browserhub account
2. Select a Scraper ID
3. Optional- Configure Rows Limit
4. Optional- Configure Webhook URL
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 Employee Created on Personio

Description:Emit new event when a new employee is created.

Version:0.0.1

Key:personio-new-employee-created

View on GitHub

Personio Overview#

The Personio API provides programmatic access to HR management functions, allowing you to manage employee data, time tracking, payroll, and recruitment processes. With Pipedream, you can leverage this API to create automations and workflows that can streamline HR operations, react to events in Personio in real-time, and connect HR data to other systems seamlessly.

Trigger Code#

import { DEFAULT_POLLING_SOURCE_TIMER_INTERVAL } from "@pipedream/platform";
import personio from "../../personio.app.mjs";
import sampleEmit from "./test-event.mjs";

export default {
  key: "personio-new-employee-created",
  name: "New Employee Created",
  version: "0.0.1",
  description: "Emit new event when a new employee is created.",
  type: "source",
  dedupe: "unique",
  props: {
    personio,
    db: "$.service.db",
    timer: {
      label: "Polling interval",
      description: "Pipedream will poll the Personio on this schedule",
      type: "$.interface.timer",
      default: {
        intervalSeconds: DEFAULT_POLLING_SOURCE_TIMER_INTERVAL,
      },
    },
  },
  methods: {
    _getLastId() {
      return this.db.get("lastId") || 0;
    },
    _setLastId(lastId) {
      this.db.set("lastId", lastId);
    },
    async startEvent(maxResults = 0) {
      const { personio } = this;

      const lastId = this._getLastId();
      const items = personio.paginate({
        fn: personio.listEmployees,
        maxResults,
      });

      let responseArray = [];

      for await (const item of items) {
        responseArray.push(item);
        if (item.attributes?.id?.value <= lastId) break;
      }
      if (responseArray.length) this._setLastId(responseArray[0].attributes?.id?.value);

      for (const item of responseArray.reverse()) {
        this.$emit(
          item,
          {
            id: item.attributes?.id?.value,
            summary: `A new employee with id: "${item.attributes?.id?.value}" was created!`,
            ts: new Date(),
          },
        );
      }
    },
  },
  hooks: {
    async deploy() {
      await this.startEvent(25);
    },
  },
  async run() {
    await this.startEvent();
  },
  sampleEmit,
};

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
Personio	`personio`	`app`	This component uses the Personio app.
N/A	`db`	`$.service.db`	This component uses `$.service.db` to maintain state between executions.
Polling interval	`timer`	`$.interface.timer`	Pipedream will poll the Personio on this schedule

Trigger Authentication#

Personio uses OAuth authentication. When you connect your Personio account, Pipedream will open a popup window where you can sign into Personio and grant Pipedream permission to connect to your account. Pipedream securely stores and automatically refreshes the OAuth tokens so you can easily authenticate any Personio API.

Pipedream requests the following authorization scopes when you connect your account:

About Personio#

Europe’s most valuable HR tech company offering an all-in-one HR software for SMEs.

Action#

Run Automation on Browserhub

Description:Triggers a pre-built automation by providing the scraper ID. [See the documentation](https://developer.browserhub.io/runs/#create-a-run)

Version:0.0.1

Key:browserhub-run-automation

View on GitHub

Browserhub Overview#

The Browserhub API offers automation and control over browser sessions, enabling users to create, manipulate, and extract data from web pages programmatically. Integrating Browserhub with Pipedream opens a world of possibilities for automating web interaction workflows, monitoring website changes, scraping data, and testing web applications. Pipedream's serverless platform allows for easy orchestration of API calls and data handling, making it a powerful tool for developers to harness the capabilities of Browserhub in a scalable and efficient manner.

Action Code#

import browserhub from "../../browserhub.app.mjs";

export default {
  key: "browserhub-run-automation",
  name: "Run Automation",
  description: "Triggers a pre-built automation by providing the scraper ID. [See the documentation](https://developer.browserhub.io/runs/#create-a-run)",
  version: "0.0.1",
  type: "action",
  props: {
    browserhub,
    scraperId: {
      propDefinition: [
        browserhub,
        "scraperId",
      ],
    },
    rowsLimit: {
      type: "integer",
      label: "Rows Limit",
      description: "Maximum number of extracted rows that want to be modified.",
      optional: true,
    },
    webhookURL: {
      type: "string",
      label: "Webhook URL",
      description: "URL that will be called after the scraper run `status` is **not** `running` anymore.",
      optional: true,
    },
  },
  async run({ $ }) {
    const response = await this.browserhub.createRun({
      $,
      data: {
        scraper_id: this.scraperId,
        rows_limit: this.rowsLimit,
        webhook_url: this.webhookURL,
      },
    });
    $.export("$summary", `Successfully triggered automation with Scraper ID: ${response.id}`);
    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
Browserhub	`browserhub`	`app`	This component uses the Browserhub app.
Scraper ID	`scraperId`	`string`	Select a value from the drop down menu.
Rows Limit	`rowsLimit`	`integer`	Maximum number of extracted rows that want to be modified.
Webhook URL	`webhookURL`	`string`	URL that will be called after the scraper run `status` is not `running` anymore.