Velo by Wix (Automation & API Integration)

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Question:
Notion has introduced webhooks, and I want to automate content updates on my Wix website. I’d like blog posts and web pages to auto-populate whenever a trigger is activated in Notion. I believe this might be possible using Velo by Wix, bypassing tools like Zapier or Make. Has anyone implemented something similar, or can anyone offer guidance?

Product:
Velo by Wix (Automation & API Integration)

What are you trying to achieve?
I want to set up an automation where an action in Notion (such as updating a database entry) automatically sends information to my Wix site, updating blog posts or web pages in real-time.

What have you already tried?
I haven’t done much research yet and don’t fully understand how webhooks or Velo work. I’m looking for advice on where to start and how to set this up.

Additional information:

  • Can this be done with Velo by Wix alone, or are external tools necessary?
  • If coding is required, what’s the best way to approach it?
  • Any tutorials, examples, or explanations would be greatly appreciated.
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Welcome to the forum @Bran_Alder!

When thinking about webhooks in terms of Wix, there’s 2 main things to keep in mind - Automations have a webhook option. This is specifically for sending data via a webhook (sending ddata from Wix, to an outside source).

To accept changes from an external source into your Wix site, you’ll need to develop and expose an HTTP Function - this basically gives an endpoint for the external service to send data to, and allows you to implement your own custom logic. You’ll need some experience with writing code to get this setup.

We have some docs that explain it in more details here:

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Firstly, I wanna thank you so much For responding and providing me links with information that I can access.
I greatly appreciate it.
I am not a coder I have very little experience with it (Literally broke python code on my computer), but I have implemented some code on my site It took me about 36 hours to learn enough to do what I needed to get done. When it comes to coding, I’m always rather nervous that if I make a mistake, I’m going to cause some serious problems on my site.
Are there resources available To test and debug the code once I’m finished.? Before Introducing it to my site.
Asides from creating a duplicate of my site and running a test?