Adding an authentication to your own app
1
Confirm your app's `authentication_fields`
When you created your app on Zapier’s Developer Platform, a required step was to define the fields required for authentication. Depending on your authentication scheme the
authentication_fields
below will differ.2
Form & send your request
Leveraging the Create Authentication endpoint, supply your app’s required Be sure to supply whatever
authentication_fields
in the request.authentication_fields
are required by your apps’ authentication scheme.Pick an authentication name that’ll be recognizeable to a user should they find it outside of this flow, such as “Carter’s LinkedIn Authentication”, or “Micah’s Slack Authentication”
3
Leverage the new authentication in subsequent workflow steps ✨
A successful response from this request will include an
id
, which can be used in subsequent steps.