Hello! I’ve been trying to send in a message to a nextcloud talk room, via webhooks, as a registered normal user, with no success so far. We use this feature extensively with Slack, but we would like to do this with Nextcloud instead. The use case is to be able to send a message when something ha…

So, for the curl path - I would need: Username Password (!) Token (what token?) Is this a correct assumption? The link isn’t very clear on this and I can’t understand from it how to target a specific room. Its not in the url. Here is what I got. curl -u <username>:<password> 'https://nextclou…

[image] erik-lonroth: The documentation seems to indicate that only admins can enable bots. Yes, bots need to be installed by admins (there can be bots that can be enabled by users, but first installation always needs to be done by admin). [image] erik-lonroth: Username Password (!) Tok…

This was indeed very helpful. It wasn’t clear from the documentation, but I managed to get a message through. [image]

A followup on this thread is how I can create a low-access-level-key or similar with the sole access-rights to be able to send these webhooks to the specific room. The security implications are a bit too wide using my own account as part of the authentication, whereas I would rather want a low-acc…

There’s no such way for that. So if you don’t want to use your account, then EIther use bots (needs Admin) Use a separate “bot user” that is created just for that.

Send in a webhook message to a talk room

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SysKeeper March 27, 2025, 12:21pm 2

Hey,

there are bots in Talk nowadays which can be used exactly for that, see: Bots and webhooks - Nextcloud Talk API documentation

If you still want to go the curl route, please see