API firebase notification help

[Chris_W]

Hi my website is a wordpress news website. I have a mobile app hosted on firebase. I would like to automatically create mobile notifications of world news headlines as they are posted on my website.

Is someone able to help me with my workflow to automatically push firebase notifications when a new post is made in a certain category (world). I am currently using my RSS feed to check for posts.

Here is the API documentation I am following: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37490629/firebase-send-notification-with-rest-api

I have entered the below labels in my Pabbly API flow:
Headers: Content-Type, Authorization
Parameters: to, title, body, mutable_content, sound, url, dl

I'm not sure how the Pabbly API set up when there is an object with other properties inside it (eg. "data": { )

Thanks in advance!

 

[ArshilAhmad]

Hi @Chris_W,

Please try using the API by Pabbly: Custom Request action event.

 

[Chris_W]

Hey thanks for the quick reply!

I was able to get a positive API response through Pabbly, but now I'm unsure where the notification has gone.

I can't see anything in Firebase, nor did I see any notifications on my phone.

Is there another step in Pabbly that I need to implement?

 

[Pabblymember11]

The API response is not generated or modified by Pabbly, it is the response was has come in response to the API request you have made from the application. Also, there is no other action step available to process your Firebase request.

So, kindly contact the Firebase support team for concerns.

 

[Chris_W]

Ok thank you I will contact them.

I had another question in Pabbly, is it possible to schedule by Pabbly app if it is the 2nd step in the workflow?

1st step is to schedule the workflow to run once a day, 2nd step is to check an rss feed for new posts. Alternatively, 1st step is to check an rss feed for new posts, 2nd step is to only continue if the workflow hasn't run within the past 24 hours.

 

[Pabblymember11]

1st step is to schedule the workflow to run once a day, 2nd step is to check an rss feed for new posts. Alternatively, 1st step is to check an rss feed for new posts, 2nd step is to only continue if the workflow hasn't run within the past 24 hours.

The Schedule by Pabbly trigger will always be on the trigger.

Kindly tell us what trigger event you are using was it the RSS trigger or the Schedule: Once?

 

[Chris_W]

RSS trigger. Is there a workaround to schedule the RSS trigger?

Advice I received on the facebook group was to ask if it is possible to increase the polling time for RSS trigger in my account to 24 hours?

 

[Pabblymember11]

RSS trigger. Is there a workaround to schedule the RSS trigger?

Do you want to switch on and off the workflow for a certain duration every day?

Advice I received on the facebook group was to ask if it is possible to increase the polling time for RSS trigger in my account to 24 hours?

If you want to increase the polling time to 24 hrs then kindly share the workflow URL.

 

[Chris_W]

The workflow is intended to send push notifications to my app users, but I want to make sure they aren't flooded with notifications.

The workflow uses my RSS feed to get the notification title to send. The workflow also checks that the notification is from a specific category before continuing the workflow. I would like to make sure no more than 4 notifications are sent each day, do you have a workaround for this?

Here is the link: https://connect.pabbly.com/workflow/mapping/IjU3NjUwNTZkMDYzMjA0M2M1MjZlNTUzNDUxMzci_pc

 

[Pabblymember11]

Hey @Chris_W

I am afraid to say that it is not possible to only run the workflow for a certain number of times.

 

[Chris_W]

Ok fair enough, thanks for letting me know.

Is there a way to extract the text from a specific URL? For example if I wanted to extract the title and content from a BBC post and I have the URL, could I extract it somehow?

I've tried using a GET API call to the URL which extracts the full html but I can't extract the text from the html.

 

[Pabblymember11]

Is there a way to extract the text from a specific URL? For example if I wanted to extract the title and content from a BBC post and I have the URL, could I extract it somehow?

You can try the Text Formatter: Text Parser action step to extract the text from a certain defined position.