Making an API Call with the API Step | Introduction to Voiceflow 2024

[@vukrosic]

I swear I've been struggling with this for 30 minutes now, and you released a video xD

[@vukrosic]

Took me long time to debug: Do not put anything in curly brackets {something} in URL, for example when passing parameters {city}=%22Buffalo% because it will work properly when you click the "Send Request" test button but it will disappear when you are sending request in conversation because it's will be replaced with empty value (voiceflow thinks it's a variable). In my case I just replaced it with city=%22Buffalo% and it worked.

[@Cusnrns]

Question please: Do i have to set manually User Id for every user i have, or is there a way to make the user_id value change dependent on each user automatically?

[@nicolassuarez2933]

Outstanding! How to capture an empty array from api step? Thanks!

[@nicolassuarez2933]

How to pass variables from WebChat to the front end? I am capturing all events then regex to filter out, should be something better? Thanks!

[@alexoprean8306]

Very cool, I love your presentations great energy and explanations. I have a question tho, this particular utility you are explaining about having the name or maybe the "plan" someone has, requires the USER to be LOGGED IN so voiceflow can actually extract that info from their database or am I missing something? As far as I am thinking you can't have any info about the user UNLESS he is LOGGED IN into wathever website he is in.

[@juancarlosqr]

Hey! Yes, you're totally right. You would need to pass some information to your Voiceflow inject script, and you would need to have that information available when the HTML is parsed. You can do that through code with server side rendering but there are also some platforms like Shopify that put some user information in the global scope, so in theory you could pick that up in your VF script.

[@muneerAbro]

very informative❤, Question: How can I call more than one APIs at a time?

[@joshuasordo3958]

What chrome extensions does he use to switch between tabs like that??

[@Voiceflow]

He uses a browser called Arc!

[@mzafarr]

How to send variable value in request body of a post request in API Step? Its not working from me.

[@benjaminelkrieff6414]

You guys don't have a simple doc explaining how to put variable in Raw body. Like this is very basic.