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Hootsuite CRM Webhooks API

### Webhook authenticationWhen receiving data from Inbox 2.0, we provide two authentication options. Both mechanisms are in place so that you can make sure the request originates from Inbox 2.0.#### Shared secretIf you choose the shared secret authentication method, a secret will be generated for you. This secret allows you to calculate the signature to verify that the call originated from Inbox 2.0. With this mechanism, every single request from Inbox 2.0 contains the `X-Hootsuite-Signature` header. Here's an example of a request:```shellcurl -X POST https://my-webhook-url \ -H 'content-type : application/json' \ -H 'accept: application/json' \ -H 'X-Hootsuite-Signature: e6f93239a06e46ae9654fc9ad2fb4e1cc4eb213830a0d94e711570c047e43c57' \ -d '{ "version": 2, "contactProfile": { "id": "a7a20053-9c54-11eb-a89f-47717a44c639" }, "contactAttributes": [ {"attribute": "email", "value": "fj@example.com"} ] }'```The signature is generated using the `HMAC-SHA256` algorithm with the shared secret and the request body. Use your secret to calculate the signature and compare with the given signature. Both the secret key you received and the signature are encoded as hexadecimal strings. Make sure to convert the shared secret from its hexadecimal representation to its binary format before using it. Most languages come with libraries out of the box to verify this signature. For example, here's how it looks in JavaScript:```javascriptconst crypto = require("crypto");const secret = "..."; // do not share!const expectedSignature = request.headers["X-Hootsuite-Signature"];const actualSignature = crypto .createHmac("sha256", Buffer.from(secret, "hex")) .update(request.body, "utf-8") .digest("hex");if (actualSignature !== expectedSignature) { throw new createError.Unauthorized("X-Hootsuite-Signature wrong");}console.log(JSON.parse(request.body).email);```#### OAuthIf your endpoints support OAuth2, you can configure your client credentials, a Token URL, and, optionally, a Scope in Inbox 2.0.We use the OAuth2 Client Credentials flow to authenticate against your CRM. The Token URL is the endpoint where we can authenticate with these credentials and retrieve an access token. To do the actual lookup, write back, or notification requests, we use the token in the Authorization Header to authenticate.

Hootsuite CRM Webhooks API is one of 21 APIs that Hootsuite publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, an API reference, a getting-started guide, authentication docs, and rate-limit docs.

This API exposes 0 operations across 0 paths, and defines 3 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version v1.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://platform.hootsuite.com.

0 operations 0 paths 3 schemas

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.2.0
API Version
v1
Base URL
https://platform.hootsuite.com/v1
Authentication
HTTP Bearer, HTTP Basic, OAuth 2.0, API Key

Authentication & Security 4

Hootsuite CRM Webhooks API declares 4 security schemes for authenticating requests. It accepts HTTP bearer tokens (bearer-token). It accepts HTTP basic authentication (basic-auth). It supports OAuth 2.0 (Oauth2ClientCredentials) using the clientCredentials flow, exposing 1 scope. An API key is passed in the header as X-Hootsuite-Signature (SharedSecret). By default, every request must be authenticated.

Schemas 3

The contract defines 3 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are CrmWriteBackRequest (5 properties), CrmErrorNotificationsRequest (4 properties), CrmLookupAttributesResponse (2 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

CrmWriteBackRequest
object
The request contains write back payload.
5 properties
CrmErrorNotificationsRequest
object
4 properties
CrmLookupAttributesResponse
object
2 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

hootsuite-crm-webhooks-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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