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Ably and PDFMonkey connection
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Ways to connect Ably and PDFMonkey
Create a new workflow and add the first step
In n8n, click the "Add workflow" button in the Workflows tab to create a new workflow. Add the starting point – a trigger on when your workflow should run: an app event, a schedule, a webhook call, another workflow, an AI chat, or a manual trigger. Sometimes, the HTTP Request node might already serve as your starting point.
Create your own Ably and PDFMonkey connection
Create custom Ably and PDFMonkey workflows by choosing triggers and actions. Nodes come with global operations and settings, as well as app-specific parameters that can be configured. You can also use the HTTP Request node to query data from any app or service with a REST API.
Supported API Endpoints for Ably
GET
Get channel
Creates a new Channel object if none for the channel exists, or returns the existing channel object.
/api/rest-sdk/channels/get
DELETE
Release channel
Releases a Channel object, deleting it and enabling it to be garbage collected.
/api/rest-sdk/channels/release
GET
List messages
Retrieve messages sent to a specified channel.
/channels/rest-example/messages
POST
Publish message
Publish a message on a channel.
/channels/<channelId>/messages
POST
Publish message
Publish a message to a specified channel with optional parameters.
/channels/rest-example/messages?enveloped=false
GET
Retrieve presence status
Obtain the set of members currently present for a channel.
/channels/rest-example/presence
GET
Retrieve presence state history
Obtain the history of presence messages for a channel.
/channels/<channelId>/presence/history
GET
Retrieve metadata
This returns ChannelDetails for the given channel, indicating global occupancy.
/channels/<channelId>
GET
Enumerate all active channels
This enumerates all active channels in the application.
/channels
DELETE
Release channel
Releases a Channel object, deleting it and enabling it to be garbage collected.
/docs/api/realtime-sdk/channels#release
POST
Publish message
Publish a single message on this channel based on a given event name and payload.
/api/rest-sdk/messages/publish
GET
List messages
Retrieve a list of messages from a specific channel.
/docs/api/rest-sdk/messages
POST
Publish message
Sends a message to a channel.
/api/rest/messages
GET
Get channel history
Gets a paginated set of historical messages for this channel.
/api/rest-sdk/history
GET
Retrieve message history
Fetches the history of messages published on a channel.
/api/rest/history
POST
Create token request
Creates and signs an Ably TokenRequest based on the specified tokenParams and authOptions.
/requestToken
POST
Authenticate server
Authenticates a server with Ably and creates access tokens for clients.
/api/rest/auth
GET
Retrieve presence state
Obtains the current presence state of clients in a channel.
/api/rest/presence
GET
Retrieve application usage statistics
Fetches statistics for application usage over a specified period.
/api/rest/stats
POST
Register device
Register a device for receiving push notifications.
/push/deviceRegistrations
PUT
Update device registration
Update a device registration by replacing existing details.
/push/deviceRegistrations/<deviceId>
GET
List channels
Retrieve all channels with at least one subscribed device.
/push/channels
POST
Publish notification
Send a push notification to a single device or set of devices.
/push/publish
GET
Get details from a registered device
Obtain the details for a device registered for receiving push registrations.
/push/deviceRegistrations/<deviceId>
GET
List registered devices
Obtain the details for devices registered for receiving push registrations.
/push/deviceRegistrations
DELETE
Unregister device
Unregisters a single device by its device ID, deleting all its subscriptions for receiving push notifications through channels.
/push/deviceRegistrations/<deviceId>
DELETE
Unregister devices
Unregisters devices, deleting all their subscriptions for receiving push notifications through channels.
/push/deviceRegistrations
POST
Subscribe to channel
Subscribe a single device or all devices associated with a client ID to receive push notifications from messages sent to a channel.
/push/channelSubscriptions
POST
Revoke tokens
Revoke tokens using the specified key name.
/keys/<keyName>/revokeTokens
POST
Publish message
Publish a single message on this channel based on a given event name and payload.
/docs/api/realtime-sdk/channels#publish
To set up Ably integration, add the HTTP Request node to your workflow canvas and authenticate it using a generic authentication method. The HTTP Request node makes custom API calls to Ably to query the data you need using the API endpoint URLs you provide.
See the example hereThese API endpoints were generated using n8n
n8n AI workflow transforms web scraping into an intelligent, AI-powered knowledge extraction system that uses vector embeddings to semantically analyze, chunk, store, and retrieve the most relevant API documentation from web pages. Remember to check the Ably official documentation to get a full list of all API endpoints and verify the scraped ones!
What can you build with PDFMonkey?
Generate Document
Create a new PDF using a template
Get Document
Get document details and status
Download File
Download a generated PDF or Image
Delete Document
Delete an existing PDF document
Ably and PDFMonkey connection details
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