Webhook Data Source

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After you've gone through the first steps of connecting a data source, follow these instructions to create a webhook source.

1. Click Incoming Webhook, then click Next.

2. Enter a name for the webhook source and select authorization type from the dropdown. Uncheck the checkbox if you do not need to enforce detection of only one dataset and then click on GENERATE WEBHOOK URL.

This will generate a webhook url and an api key. Nexla webhooks can accept JSON and XML content. You can send a single event/record or batch of events/records to the webhook using the api key as shown below. Then click Save.

3. After creating, you will receive a confirmation page indicating successful creation of the data source.

Here, you can change the name of your data source by hovering over the name and editing. Add a description by hovering over the grey description text. 

4. The Webhook is now ready to use. You can start sending data. Nexla will detect, manage, and evolve schema. The resulting Dataset can now be  Upon receiving a payload, the platform will detect a schema and ingest the samples into the created data flow.

Click done to return to My Data Sources. You can also click the View Data Source button to view the source you created directly. Or click the view detected datasets button to view the datasets detected from your source.

Click done when you are finished and ready to exit.

5. For example, data can be sent to a webhook source in the following manner in Postman :

a) Enter the webhook url generated by the Nexla source.

b) Under Headers, Authorization must be given as Basic and enter the apikey generated by the nexla source.

c) You may enter the desired content type under Headers. Here, application/json has been used.

d) Enter the data you want to send to the webhook source. Then click Send.

e) The response of this POST request will contain the number of records processed and the dataset id detected by the Nexla source.

f) Navigate back to Datasets in the Nexla platform. From the drop down, select Source Datasets.

g) Select the dataset and click preview to view the samples of the records sent to the webhook source.