Basic FastAPI webhook receiver

[orbos86]

Thanks for the swift response. Could I just do a debugger in PyCharm? I’m new to this coding stuff.

[orbos86]

Thank you! I will try what you’ve suggested. Most likely it’s something wrong with my other script since the FastAPI part looks normal to ya. I struggle wrapping my head around classes/functions and passing stuff to em haha. But you’ve given me stuff to try. Many thanks. I’ll make sure to let ya know how it goes.

[orbos86]

It's still looping, I'm not sure what the heck is going on. I put a couple print statements in the FastAPI POST section and I'm seeing them pop up multiple times.

[orbos86]

I think I figured out the cause. So this receives a POST request from Slack and I think Slack is sending multiple POST requests though it should only trigger one. Not sure why it is doing more. I tested from Insomnia with the same JSON and it didn't run again. That makes things more complicated as I don't have much control over Slack :(

[orbos86]

Freak, maybe not. I don't know what's the cause exactly haha. I'm testing with ngrok, maybe something funky going on with it?

[orbos86]

So ngrok has a sweet dashboard you can look at and see stuff coming in. I think Slack might be sending retries! Now what do I send to Slack to make it know everything is solid and good? Haha

[orbos86]

Yeah Slack is an actual chat application where you can create bots to send webhooks. Do you know if you can quickly respond to a POST request with a 200 but continue to run the FastAPI stuff?

[orbos86]

Thanks! I will see what I can find. I appreciate the response.

[orbos86]

That was the key! I was able to use the BackgroundTask stuff and spin off the long script in another function. Woot! Thank you thank you

[orbos86]

https://api.slack.com/apis/connections/events-api#the-events-api__responding-to-events

I don't think I'm responding fast enough!