Is Latenode supported for actions? It’s similar to Zapier and Make. You can set it up to do an amazing variety of tasks. I’m just starting to work with it to implement back-end REST calls to 3rd-party sites so I don’t have to add them to my own server. It also supports a wide variety of AI models, more than Pickaxe seems to support.
Hi @thetoolwiz currently there is an action dedicated to Latenode. However, you can always try creating custom actions.
Let me know if you need any help setting them up!
The solution @Ned.Malki brings up is a good one. I’m not familiar with LateNode, but if you’re trying to set up a webhook, you can use the pre-made Generic Webhook Action. All the Make/Zapier/IFTTT actions are actually the same-- a webhook call. So if LateNode is similar to them, then you can probably use the generic webhook Action. Setting up the action is a pretty simple process compared to some of the actions.
But if it seems overwhelming, you can also hire a Pickaxe Expert to configure the Action for you. Ned is an expert himself.
Thanks, guys, but I’m a programmer and I tend to take things quite literally. I don’t see “Latenode” mentioned anywhere. I’ve got a Latenode account and I’ve been using it with another project, and it seems quite powerful.
I know it’s driven off of webhooks just like Zapier and Make, but none of these forms mention anything I expect to see relating to webhooks. They’re looking for very abstract statements that I’m guessing are somehow massaged into a webhook used to call whatever service you’re thinking about. I don’t see how that’s happening or what’s required on the incoming side of a Latenode processing thing – sorry, I forget what they call them at the moment.
I don’t need to hire someone to explain to me what these forms mean, but an example would make a lot more sense to me than these blank forms do.
@thetoolwiz are you cloning the Action and then looking at the backend Action coding? It is pretty straight forward. If you are a programmer then this should be pretty easy. I suspect you are only looking at the front end of the Action. You may not be able to do this unfortunately because for some reason they force you to add in your API key before you can even create the clone.
You may have to sign up for a free Make account for the API key and then after cloning it, you can steal the code to put into a Generic Action and modify it for Latinode.
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AHA! … so there’s MORE! I have a Latenode API key, which was sort of the origin of my question as to whether Latenode is supported or not. I guess that answer is “No”.
I don’t want to get into any kinds of arguments about which one is better or why; I just happened to stumble into an ad for LateNode, signed up for a free trial to see if it did what I need, and it does so very nicely, so I got their $17/mo subscription. It seems very economical for what I need – far better than Zapier. I have not looked at Make, but I guess I’ll need to now.
So thanks for this info. I’ll get a Make trial key and then dig around under the hood here to see what’s needed. Hopefully they’ll add support for Latenode and maybe some others soon. Webhooks are webhooks; they all seem to work the same. Why should the vendor matter?
BTW, I looked into Latenode so I can dump a Windows VPS that I use only to run a web service that sends requests out to 3rd-party servers, gets the data back, reformats it a bit, and returns it to my apps. IOW, it’s doing the same stuff I can do with Latenode but I don’t need to maintain or manage a Windows host and web service. And Latenode a LOT faster unless I want to pay WAY more for a bigger Windows VPS. (So many programmers love to reinvent the wheel. I prefer to use services that already exist if they’re not too expensive. Latenode is cheaper than a VPS with similar performance and takes a lot less babysitting.)
Here’s a detailed video about setting up a webhook Action with Make where the Pickaxe will send information and receive information back from the webhook.
And here is a video about setting up a custom action.
These videos are very helpful. Thanks.
But now I’m unclear what’s specific about Make here? I mean, you have to enter your security token, the URL, all of the parameters, and make sure everything connects. Same pattern for any webhook, right?
I’m guessing that to use Latenode, I’d just need to make my own Action? Not even start with Make, because you have to undo whatever is Make-specific (other than the name?).
As an aside, I really like how they’re using AI here. Over time, I’ve found that around half of all code is what I call “plumbing code” – it only exists to get data from one place to another. That usually requires back-and-forth assignment statements, and if you need to go from ID#'s to/from Strings then you need to create mapping tables that are shared; and sometimes they can have multiple representations for the same piece of data. I’ve been using ChatGPT to write code like that for me, and it’s hard to screw up (meaning it usually doesn’t contain any errors). In this case, they’re defining fields with a name, a Description, and then a Trigger Prompt, and they’re all passed to the AI to let it figure out how best to hook everything together. Very cool. 