# Using Trigger Connectors

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| **source_url** | https://www.contentstack.com/academy/courses/automate-foundations/using-trigger-connectors |
| **course_slug** | automate-foundations |
| **lesson_slug** | using-trigger-connectors |
| **markdown_file_url** | /academy/md/courses/automate-foundations/using-trigger-connectors.md |
| **generated_at** | 2026-05-11T07:02:18.438Z |

> Part of **[Automate Foundations](https://www.contentstack.com/academy/courses/automate-foundations)** on Contentstack Academy. **Academy MD v3** — structured for retrieval; no quiz or assessment keys.

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#### Video details

#### At a glance

- **Title:** Ah-trigger Connectors
- **Duration:** 1m 55s
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#### Video transcript

In this video we'll take a look at the trigger connectors for ContentStack. Let's get started. First navigate to Automation Hub and then open an Automation Project. Then click New Automation. Here we can name this anything we want. I'll just call this a Connectors Trigger Demo. Now we get a chance to choose our connector. We have four choices here. The first choice is a ContentStack connector. This allows us to trigger events based on things happening within the platform. For example, publishing an entry or updating a document. There's lots of different listeners we can listen to here. When we select one of those listeners or those events, then we can log into ContentStack. And then finally we can listen to any of these events here, such as creating an item, publishing item, or deleting an item. The second connector we have is the HTTP connector. And what that allows us to do is set up an endpoint and listen for events and data coming from external platforms. So for example, over here I can select HTTP request trigger, hit proceed, and now this gives me an endpoint that any webhook from a third-party platform can call into ContentStack and send us JSON. We'll receive the JSON and then we can perform other action steps based on that later on. The third connector we have here is the Launch connector. And that allows us to basically perform actions on a deployment of a website using the ContentStack launch project. So you can imagine that we deploy the site to QA and then we want to notify the QA team in Slack. We might want to trigger an email or trigger other automatic actions that happen after that deployment. And that's what this connector is used for. And finally we have the scheduler by Automation Hub. And this allows you to schedule tasks to run on a regular basis, on a daily basis for example. And in that task you can perform other action steps. That's an overview of the four connectors. Thank you very much.

#### Key takeaways

- Connect **Using Trigger Connectors** back to your stack configuration before moving to the next module.
- Capture one concrete artifact (screenshot, Postman call, or code snippet) that proves the step works in your environment.
- Re-read the delivery versus management boundary for anything you changed in the entry model.

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Using Trigger Connectors. Using Trigger Connectors in Automate Foundations (automate-foundations).

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