Webhooks Identify the Changing Agent

5 votes

It'd be great to know if the change object the webhooks fire off contained the user agent be it an API, User, or Automated process. Providing it through a header value like meta tags would keep handling request meta consistent as well.

Under consideration Suggested by: Ryley Sevier (21 Nov, '19) • Upvoted: 09 Dec, '23 • Comments: 6

Comments: 6

22 Nov, '19
Jared King Admin
Although this is not formally documented, there is a `user` property on the Event object that will tell you the user that caused the event.
13 Dec, '19
Ryley Sevier
Oh I missed that! Thank you sir!
03 Jan, '20
Ryley Sevier
I went to go try and implement this. The event object does include a user object but it's not returned as part of the events API so far as I can tell. It's visible when you go to the history of an object but is left out of the response when querying via API.

I have an alternative request to modify the events api! 🤣
06 Jan, '20
Jared King Admin
Sorry about that! I left out a key piece of information. If you add `?include=user` to your events API call you will have the user object available to you.
11 Aug, '20
Ryley Sevier
What's the enumeration on the API for the user?
I think -1 is an API key, -3 is an external user.
14 Aug, '20
Jared King Admin
It would be -2 for the API user