Real-time Triggers

Creating a Real-time trigger
Caravel provides a New Message Event real-time trigger that will fire once per message added to a feed. From the Automation form, choose Real-time, then add a New Message Event trigger and select the feed you wish to observe.
Creating HTTP actions
Caravel provides HTTP actions that you can use in response to a real-time automation trigger. All actions receive the action payload (👇
 more on this below) for use in the request body. Caravel uses Handlebars templating to add dynamic content to your HTTP actions.
Defining an Action Payload
{
	"feed": "{{feedName}}",
	"text": "{{{message.text}}}",
	"mentioned": "{{message.mentionedAt}}"
}
Example request body using handlebars templating with Caravel action payloads
Action Payloads use Handlebars templates. You can use triple braces to unescape text content {{{escapedText}}}
Action payloads
Each automation action receives a JSON payload with the following properties:
message object
The message that triggered this automation, it has the following properties:
text string The text of the message
sentiment string The predicted sentiment of the message (Very Negative, Negative, Neutral, Positive, Very Positive)
sentimentScore number Numerical value of sentiment between -1 and 1. -1 is most negative and 1 is most positive.
aspectSentiments { name: string; sentiment: string }[] Array of objects containing the classification name and sentiment score (-1 to 1)
categories string[] List of category classifier names that matched this message
intents string[] List of intent classifier names that matched this message
topics string[] List of topic classifier names that matched this message
actor string | null Name of person who wrote this message
externalUserId string | null The external identifier of the customer from the message source
originName string | null Name of message origin
originUrl string | null URL of message origin
conversationUrl string URL link to message in your Caravel workspace
sourceName string Name of Caravel source
conversationUrl string URL link to message in your Caravel workspace
id string Caravel message identifier
conversationId string Caravel conversation identifier this message belongs to
externalId string | null The external identifier for this message
mentionedAt string When this message first appeared (defaults to createdAt if originCreatedAt doesn't exist)
createdAt Date Caravel internal timestampconversationUrl string URL link to message in your Caravel workspace
updatedAt Date Caravel internal timestamp
originCreatedAt Date | null Timestamp from external origin
automationName string
Name of the automation currently running.
feedName string
Name of the feed this automation is running on.
logs { level: 'info' | 'error'; message: string; timestamp: number }[]
An array of automation logs for debugging.
Example HTTP Actions
Triggering Discord Messages
Triggering Slack Messages
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Real-time Triggers

Creating a Real-time trigger

Creating HTTP actions

Defining an Action Payload

Action payloads

message `object`

automationName `string`

feedName `string`

logs `{ level: 'info' | 'error'; message: string; timestamp: number }[]`

Example HTTP Actions