Geometry data through Webhook

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Hi all,

I’m trying to get geometry data and other custom parameter values through a webhook post request. But looks like it does contain limited information.

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The webhook response is about the event and not the model version data which could be very substantial so consider it a handshake.

  1. User triggers an event
  2. Webhook fired
  3. Your script is triggered by webhook
  4. Your script parses the the event data
  5. Your script makes a speckle server query
  6. Your script processes Speckle data

This is a pretty common exchange pattern via webhooks.

The guardrails if you like to setting up many on a project and every event posting GB of data from our servers to yours.

Each webhook has a similar shaped payload whether it’s a new version, a comment, a user added to a project etc,

What are are you looking to build??, it may be that Speckle Automate might fit the bill for you which is able to execute your code on every new version and no requirement for you to host a server or setup a second cloud service with lambda functions for example.

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I need to make a quantity takeoff table when user update the progress. I need to retrieve information like elementID , material name, material quantity etc.

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Depending on how you are implementing this, you can also retrieve that data with a direct query that you can then achieve “realtime” and also focussed results from the latest version on-demand.

Youll be making that same type of query in response to the webhook notification. But assumes some user interaction is in play. If you are populating a second DB the webhook or Automate method will be preferable.

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Hi thanks for suggestion. Please let me know how to write a direct query to get geometry data?

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Were you able to follow our documentation on the topic?

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Yes. I followed but the payload does not contain geometry data. I’m looking to create a HTTP request from n8n to get geometry data. Below are the steps

  1. User make a comment on speckle viewer and webhook node will trigger (Done)
  2. Payload contain “id” and using a HTTP request node we can get geometry data filtered using “id” (To do)