Send Patreon post link to Discord using Webhooks

How To
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What are you trying to achieve?

Looking for some advice on the best way to setup the following scenario (I have never used Webhooks before). For context I am a Discord moderator for a podcast server (I don’t run the podcast but can talk to the host if information from the Patreon side is required). The podcast has a regular mailbag post on Patreon where patrons can ask their questions by leaving comments on the post. We would like to post a link in Discord automatically when a Patreon post is made so users can access this easily.

From the brief research I have done I think a Webhooks would be better than rss feed for the posts because it needs to be timely and we are using a free Make account so don’t want to run it frequently to check because that will chew through the available operations (we have another scenario we use as well).

What I’m not sure about is the best way to set the Webhook up and interface with Patreon. I’m fairly comfortable with the Discord integration end of the scenario having previously set up another scenario for automatic posting.

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated, thank you!

Steps taken so far

Would this be an appropriate way to set the scenario up?

  1. Should I ask the podcast host (who runs all the Patreon stuff) to generate a Webhook on Patreon with the post:publish trigger turned on (as per API Reference).
    OR do I need the Webhook to be on make.com? and if so how do I get that to talk to Patreon?
  2. Set the scenario to trigger when the Webhook receives the new post data
  3. get the post title and link
  4. Send message in Discord to the preferred channel
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Welcome to the Make community!

The webhook URL (from the Custom Webhook module) needs to be inserted by the owner of the Patron account.

For more information, see How to Set Up Patreon Webhook? - SureTriggers

Hope this helps! Let me know if there are any further questions or issues.

— @samliew

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