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Overview of webhooks

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Overview of webhooks

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- [Instructor] Another very useful tool available with actions are webhooks, which you can find in the fulfillment section. If you're not familiar with webhooks, they are tools to connect one web-service to another, and pull data from the other service. An example, let's say you've built an application that compiles news and aggregates them into a single portal, you will need to get your news from other sources, say connect to news API, well your application connects to an external API through a webhook, simple as that. So let's apply this to our actions, let's say we wanted to ask the JavaScript doctor for all the most recent JavaScript news. We could do it through a webhook and connect to an external source of news by adding some information into our API call, and this is exactly how webhook works. Now if all that sounds a bit complex we'll work on this in the following videos and it will make a lot more sense. However, like I've mentioned before if you don't have any prior…

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