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14. Outgoing webhooks

Rick Van Rousselt1 
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Pelt, Belgium
 

Now that we have extensively discussed incoming webhooks, it’s time to turn the tables around and talk about outgoing webhooks. Outgoing webhooks work the same as incoming webhooks, just the other way around. This time, Teams is going to call our API when an event occurs, so let’s see how we set up that API.

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An outgoing webhook can be compared in usability best to a bot. Users have to at-mention it to trigger the event, and triggering the event is what we need for our API to get called. That’s why with incoming and outgoing webhooks, we can build a bot-like solution. ...

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