# Action Connectors ### About this export | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | **content_type** | lesson | | **platform** | contentstack-academy | | **source_url** | https://www.contentstack.com/academy/learning-paths/contentstack-developer-certification/automate-foundations/action-connectors | | **course_slug** | automate-foundations | | **lesson_slug** | action-connectors | | **learning_path_slug** | contentstack-developer-certification | | **markdown_file_url** | /academy/md/learning-paths/contentstack-developer-certification/automate-foundations/action-connectors.md | | **generated_at** | 2026-05-18T10:09:05.461Z | > Lesson in **[Automate Foundations](https://www.contentstack.com/academy/learning-paths/contentstack-developer-certification/automate-foundations)** within the **contentstack-developer-certification** learning path on Contentstack Academy. **Academy MD v3** — structured for retrieval; no quiz or assessment keys. #### Video details #### At a glance - **Title:** Ah-action Connectors - **Duration:** 2m 49s - **Media link:** https://cdn.jwplayer.com/previews/3ykB6UIr - **Publish date (unix):** 1713750111 #### Streaming renditions - application/vnd.apple.mpegurl - audio/mp4 · AAC Audio · 113974 kbps - video/mp4 · 180p · 180p · 146453 kbps - video/mp4 · 270p · 270p · 166118 kbps - video/mp4 · 360p · 360p · 184014 kbps - video/mp4 · 406p · 406p · 198641 kbps - video/mp4 · 540p · 540p · 235553 kbps - video/mp4 · 720p · 720p · 298477 kbps - video/mp4 · 1080p · 1080p · 448123 kbps #### Timed text tracks (delivery) - **thumbnails:** `https://cdn.jwplayer.com/strips/3ykB6UIr-120.vtt` #### Video transcript In this video, we'll take a look at the Action Connectors with ContentStack. Let's get started. First, navigate to an Automation Hub project, and then click New Automation. In this automation, we're just going to demo our Action Connector, so I'll call it Action Connector Example. Hit Create. Okay, we're going to use the ContentStack trigger to get it started. And on the Entry trigger, log into your ContentStack account, and then on the selected event, choose Event Entry Published. On Select Stacks, select one of your stacks. Go ahead and click Proceed. Okay, now we need to test our trigger, so the usual, log into ContentStack, and test your trigger here by performing the Publish action. Okay, that tests our trigger, so let's go over here and retest. And that's the first and most important step. Always test your trigger. Always load in the JSON. Okay, let's click Save and Exit, and now is the fun part here on the Action Step. On the Action Step, click the first icon there, Action Step, and here are a list of the connectors that ContentStack has that are pre-built. You can see we have quite a few here. One of my favorites is the HTTP connector, which allows us to connect to any third party. So let's go ahead and select that one. So now when we publish our entry, we're going to call this HTTP Endpoint. On HTTP request, choose Post, and next, navigate over here to webhook.site. That's a free webhook listener, and then click New, and then Create a New Webhook Listener. Then what you want to do is that unique URL, copy that, and come back to Automation Hub and paste in the URL here, and then we get a chance to tell the system what JSON to send to the third party. So let's go over here and look under Entry Trigger, and here are all the data fields in our entry. Usually, the data, body.data, is metadata, so what we normally like to do is search for body.entry, and that is the content itself, maybe it's not body.entry, body.data.entry, and that's all the content. So select that one, and then click Proceed. Hit Test Action, and now we should actually see all the content in our entry passed over to webhook.site. Let's hit Save and Exit. Finally, to activate this, we go ahead and click on the Activate button up here, now we can go back into Content Stack and publish another entry, and we should see that over here in webhook.site. Thank you very much. #### Key takeaways - Connect **Action 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. ## Supplement for indexing ### Content summary Action Connectors. Action Connectors in Automate Foundations (automate-foundations). ### Retrieval tags - Action - Connectors - automate-foundations - lesson 09 - Action Connectors - automate-foundations lesson ### Indexing notes Index this lesson as a primary chunk tagged with lesson_id "09" and topics: [Action, Connectors]. Parent course slug: automate-foundations. Use asset_references URLs as thumbnail hints in search results when present. Never surface LMS quiz content or assessment answers from this file. ### Asset references | Label | URL | | --- | --- | | Video thumbnail: Action Connectors | `https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/3ykB6UIr/poster.jpg?width=720` | ### External links | Label | URL | | --- | --- | | Contentstack Academy home | `https://www.contentstack.com/academy/` | | Training instance setup | `https://www.contentstack.com/academy/training-instance` | | Academy playground (GitHub) | `https://github.com/contentstack/contentstack-academy-playground` | | Contentstack documentation | `https://www.contentstack.com/docs/` |