How to Connect Chatbots with Webhooks

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Webhooks are an excellent way of connecting your app with external apps. A Webhook is essentially a POST request sent to a callback URL. In this post, we will see how you can connect chatbots with Webhooks. Connecting your bots with Webhook will help you robust and advanced workflows, where you can exchange data with external apps or your database to perform dynamic actions.

We will be using a chatbot platform that has the capability of building a chatbot and a provision of connecting the chatbot with Webhooks. Kommunicate is one such platform. It has its own chatbot builder – Kompose, which is also capable of supporting Webhooks.

In Kommunicate, Webhooks provide a simple way to allow self employed data users to send messages to your web service in return to perform powerful custom actions.

In this guide, I will show you how to connect your Kompose chatbot to webhooks. The webhook URL I will use in this guide is to connect our chatbot is provided by Beeceptor for testing purposes.

You can refer to this link on how to build a chatbot using Kompose if you have not created one yet. refer to the video below:


Steps to Connect Chatbots to Webhooks
Step 1: Create a Webhook Endpoint
Create a Webhook endpoint URL and make sure it is published in a Webhook server.