Hello everyone, I am new with postman, I have created a flow that I would like to schedule a monitor for it to run my flow daily. I been reading to accomplish scheduling a flow is to use a webhook which I see has been deprecated. I am not a true developer of any sorts, I am just trying to accomplish to get my flow to run in an automated fashion, collections is the only option currently inside postman to accomplish this it appears. I did try creating the webhook and had a brilliant idea to make a request inside postman to run the webhook url it provided but that didn’t work out as planned
Welcome to the forums!
You can accomplish this inside Postman by using collections as you mentioned. What part didn’t work out as planned?
The steps should be:
- Publish the Flow so that you have the webhook URL
- Put the webhook URL in a request inside a collection
- Use Postman Monitors to run the collection every day
While webhooks are deprecated, we will be replacing it with a more powerful solution very soon before we sunset it and there will be an easy path to upgrade from webhooks.
Let me know if you run into any issues with the above.
Thank you for the response Daniel, much appreciated! That’s what I was thinking, maybe I was just doing it wrong. Once you get the URL, I was thinking to create a new request, any details to accomplish this and getting it working? I created a Get request and copied the Webhook URL but it errors out when running. 412 Precondition failed "The server doesn’t meet the criteria. I am seeing “No steps available to execute the webhook”.
When I send the webhook within the flow to test, it works fine, so I know it’s not my flow as my flow works as well without the webhook and with it when testing the webhook preview. I am assuming I may need some values on the collection to setup and run this? I tried googling it, but not finding much on the situation.
The error you’re getting “No steps available to execute the webhook”. Indicates that you’re at the usage limit on your plan which resets every month.
You can check your usage by pressing the drop down next to “team” in the top right corner and then resource usage. It will also tell you when your usage resets.
Otherwise, it doesn’t sound like you’re doing anything wrong. Once your plan resets you should be able to run the flow just by doing a get on the URL.
Ah thank you so much Daniel! Very helpful, thanks for taking the time sir! Have a great weekend!
I checked my team but my monitoring usage is 12/100000 my flow runs are 78/unlimited and APIs 0/unlimited. I looked into further but nothing shows a capped limit for the month, any thoughts what else it could be? Could there potentially be an access issue for my account preventing me to run the webhook? I didn’t get any permission errors or any sorts just trying to understand, I appreciate your time!
Can you send me a DM with your email on your account and I will take a look.
This sounds funny but I can’t seem to figure out how to direct message you… I made this account which is a personal account, because my company one was not allowing me to login (probably with access issues I am assuming with the admin of postman).
I sent you a DM you can reply to it there