Webhooks are a key component of building event-driven Web applications, and they’re also supported in the various Rev AI APIs. They provide a simple, efficient and asynchronous approach to manage requests submitted through our APIs.

How Rev AI Webhooks Work

1. An application submits a job to a Rev AI API for processing, supplying a webhook URL in the callback_url parameter.
2. Once job processing is complete, the API sends an HTTP POST message to the webhook URL containing the results of processing.
3. The webhook URL handler receives the HTTP POST request, parses the request body and implements further application-specific business logic as needed. This could be sending an email, updating a database record or even invoking another webhook.

The following diagram briefly explains the sequence of events:

If you’d like to use webhooks in your application but aren’t quite sure where to start, check out our tutorials below which provide detailed explanations and code samples to help you get started:

• Get Started with Rev AI API Webhooks
• Use Webhooks to Trigger Job Email Notifications with Node.js, Sendgrid and Express
• Save Transcripts to MongoDB with a Node.js Webhook

We hope you find these tutorials useful – write in and let us know what you think!