Embedding the Zap Editor

By embedding our Zap Editor in your product, your users can create and edit their Zaps without leaving your product.

Creating a new Zap

Use the Partner API to query the public Zap templates featuring your integration (using the GET /v1/zap-templates endpoint) and feature them in your product. When a user chooses a Zap template they’d like to try, use the create_url value as the source to load in an embedded frame such as:

<iframe src="https://api.zapier.com/v1/embed/trello/create/113"></iframe>

Where https://api.zapier.com/v1/embed/trello/create/113 is the create_url value of the Zap template.

Optionally, you can add additional parameters to the create_url to prefill the user’s Zap with custom values (e.g., specifying a workspace for the trigger to filter by).

Editing a Zap

Use the Partner API to load a user’s Zaps (using the GET /v1/zaps endpoint). When the user chooses to open or edit a Zap use the the url value of the Zap as the source of an embedded frame such as:

<iframe src="https://zapier.com/app/editor/123456"></iframe>

Where https://zapier.com/app/editor/123456 is the url of the Zap to be edited.

Additionally, if you’d prefer, you can open these URLs in a separate window, new tab, or popup just as well.

Prefill Options

Prefills allow you to define the fields on behalf of the user, thus simplying the experience of setting up their Zap.

You’ll use the create_url (available in a Zap template object) in order to create the Zap. Next, you will add parameters to the create_url so that the user’s Zap is prefilled with the provided custom values.

Note: You will need to know the fields that your app requires per step. You can find the fields as defined in your Zapier integration.

Example

You can prefill the name of a Trello card (field: name) in the second step of the Zap template:

https://api.zapier.com/v1/embed/trello/create/113?steps[1][params][name]=hello

  • template=113
  • steps[1][params][name]=hello

Here’s what it would look like in the editor:

Zap Editor showing "hello" pre-filled into the name field of a new Zap titled Create Card in Trello

You can prefill multiple values for the user. In this example name and desc are prefilled

https://api.zapier.com/v1/embed/trello/create/113?steps[1][params][name]=yoyoyo&steps[1][params][desc]=yeehaw

  • template=113
  • steps[1][params][name]=yoyoyo
  • steps[1][params][desc]=yeehaw

Zap Editor showing "yoyoyo" pre-filled into the name field, and "yeehaw" pre-filled into the description field of a new Zap titled Create Card in Trello

You can provide a label for prefill dropdowns as we won’t fetch all of the pages of choices until the user opens the dropdown:

https://api.zapier.com/v1/embed/trello/create/113?steps[1][params][board]=1234&steps[1][meta][parammap][board]=Test

  • template=113
  • steps[1][params][board]=1234
  • steps[1][meta][parammap][board]=Test

Zap Editor showing "Test" pre-filled into the board field of a new Zap titled Create Card in Trello

postMessage events

If you decide to embed the Zapier Editior within your product you can listen to message events from postMessage which can help you improve the interactivity with the iframe (e.g. automatically close the iframe modal.)

The messages available include:

  • zap:unpause = Zap turned on
  • zap:unpause:done = Zap turned on (success)
  • zap:unpause:fail = Zap turned on (failure)
  • zap:pause = Zap turned off
  • zap:pause:done = Zap turned off (success)
  • zap:pause:fail = Zap turned off (failure)

Turning off a Zap

The API does not currently have an endpoint to turn off/on a user’s Zaps. If your Zapier app uses Webhook Subscriptions, you can send a DELETE to the webhook subscription URL and that will then pause/turn off a Zap.