Dynamic Webhooks (Early Access)
Dynamic webhooks make it incredibly easy to receive data from a vehicle at the optimal frequency supported by the OEM. Specifically, once a certain condition is met, you will be able to receive data more frequently from the vehicle to stay up-to-date with the state of the vehicle when it matters most to you.
Prerequisites
For this tutorial it is recommended to have the following in place:
- To receive webhooks you’ll need to set up a callback URI on your server.
- To subscribe a vehicle you’ll want to have Connect integrated into your application.
Setting up a Dynamic Webhook
Navigate to Webhooks from the Smartcar Dashboard, select + Add webhook and select Dynamic from the Webhooks config wizard.
Name your webhook and specify a callback URI
. Your callback URI
is where Smartcar will send payloads from vehicles connected to your webhook. Click Next.
Confirm everything looks good and hit Add.
After adding your webhook, you’ll need to verify your callback URI. This is to ensure Smartcar is sending data to the correct place!
Please see our API reference on how to verify a webhook, or Part II on this blog post for a more in depth guide.
Subscribing vehicles to a webhook
Now you’ve got your webhook set up, you can subscribe vehicles to start getting data. If you haven’t done so already, please set up Connect for your application.
After going through Connect and receiving your initial access_token
, you’ll first want to hit the All Vehicles endpoint to fetch the Smartcar vehicle_ids
of the authorized vehicles.
With your access_token
and webhook_id
you can hit the Subscribe endpoint for each vehicle_id
to start receiving data.