Hello everyone,
I use the GetAround application (car rentals between private individuals) to rent out several vehicles.
I’d like to automate the sending of messages from their plateform to renters once they’ve validated a rental. These messages contain certain variables included in the rental information (full name, pick-up location, time, etc.).
There is no automation available on their platform. I was thinking of creating an automation with their APIs and Make with the following site for API (Owner API documentation)
I have successfully created my webhook and etablish the connection to GetAround with a token but i am receiving every notifications from the plateform and i only want the notification when there is a " New rental booked for one of your cars" (as you can see below with the screenshot).
I have try to edit the data structures of the Webhook as follow to filter the notification but i am not receiving any informations anymore.
So I’d like to know if anyone as any advices and recommendations on this particular case! As my knowledge of automation is still limited, I have to admit that it looks complex.
Thanks in advance and have a nice day!
Hello @Aurelien26,
I am not familiar with the GetAround API, but if you can’t subscribe to specific events and you have no option to receive all of them, what you can do is add a filter in your scenario. After the webhook module, click the wrench to add a filter, and this will allow the scenario to continue past that first module only if it meets certain criteria, such as type=“rental.booked”.
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I’ve just looked at the documentation, and it looks like there is no way to create a webhook just for a specific event type, so Donald is right - you’ll have to use a filter.
You should not need to set a JSON Data structure - it mostly helps in mapping.
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Thank you it works perfectly !
Thank you a lot for your advice !
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If you want to do something immediately when your webhook receives the “rental.booked” event, then the same scenario can be used, (as opposed to sending an email scheduled in the future).
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Thanks for the feedback, I’ve been able to build the beginnings of a scenario but I get stuck pretty quickly:
I was able to set up the Webhook “New rental booked for one of your cars” with a filter that allows me to receive only notifications of new bookings, but I only have the reservation number and not the vehicle concerned (I have more than 15 vehicles on the platform and each vehicle requires a different message to be sent). So I thought I’d look for the car number linked to the reservation using the Get “Find a rental by ID” function.
- Then, once you’ve found the car ID, you need to identify which car model is linked to this number, using the Get “Find a car by ID” function:
- Finally, I was thinking of creating personalized messages for each car, with filters to use the Post function “Create Message associated to a rental”.
However, I can’t use the Get and Post functions for these different steps. I’ve tried many different HTTP modules (mainly “Make a request”) but I can’t get each step to work.
Hi @Aurelien26!
The Getaround Owner API docs note that it uses Bearer authentication.
To use this in Make, you need to use the Make an API Key Auth request module. There’s a Bearer authentication example in the HTTP App help here.
Make sure to set API key placement as “In the header” and API Key parameter name as “Authorization”.
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