Webhook

Data feeds

SMS and other data feeds

Popular communication services can when things happen, i.e., a SMS Text message arrives, offer to trigger a webhook request that could feed data into your CloudBackend database.

Appliances

A group of Linux type appliances can feed data like system status or real-time data analysis based on artificial intelligence.

Internet of Things (IoT)

Programmable IoT devices using curl, python or similar communication packages, will let you collect data of status and from their smart embedded sensors.

Webhook — Client code examples

curl

Example: bash posting a news update - two variants
#!/usr/bin/bash
SOURCE=`hostname`
curl --request POST \
     --header 'Authorization: Bearer API-KEY-SECRET' \
     --header 'Content-Type: text/xml' \
     --data "<newsfeed>Solsken i ${SOURCE}</newsfeed>" \
     https://api.cloudbackend.com/v1/hook/{tenantName}/{webhook_name}/
echo
echo ${SOURCE}#!/usr/bin/bash
SOURCE=`hostname`
curl -X POST \
     -H 'Authorization: Bearer API-KEY-SECRET' \
     -H 'Content-Type: text/xml' \
     -d "<newsfeed>Molnigt med lätt regn i ${SOURCE}</newsfeed>" \
     https://api.cloudbackend.com/v1/hook/{tenantName}/{webhook_name}/
echo
echo ${SOURCE}

python

Example: python posting a news update
#!/usr/bin/python3
import requests
import subprocess
 
rootstart= "<newsfeed>"
rootend  = "</newsfeed>"
output   = subprocess.check_output(["hostname"], text=True).rstrip('\r\n')
message  = "Cloudy at " + output
payload  = rootstart + message + rootend
 
url     = 'https://api.cloudbackend.com/v1/hook/...'
headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer API-KEY-SECRET",
           "Content-Type": "text/xml"}
 
def post_news():
    res = requests.post(url, data=payload, headers=headers)
    print(res)
 
post_news()