Retreive Data into Hubspot from External System

Developer Support APIs & Integrations
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Hi Team,

We are working on retrieving data from an external system to populate and synchronize the product catalog including line items in HubSpot. We are expecting to use WebHooks at Source Side (External System) which will do an initial load and then whenever the data will change in the source, an event will be initiated to send updates through webhook to HubSpot. Please can you advise, if this is a Do able solution and if there are any limitations (such as if Hubspot allows webhooks in POST environment and how that would limit us) towards data retrieval through webhook into Hubspot that we need to be aware of. We are working on a custom API development.

Cheers,

MW

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@MWAsghar

HubSpot can send webhook notifications, but it cannot consume them if that is what you are asking.

You can make updates using the various API endpoints that are offered. Details can be found here and here

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Hi @MWAsghar , like @dennisedson said, it is not possible to consume POST requests. What we normally do is create a NodeJS application using Express and define the endpoints we need to consume the POST requests from our external system (and format the data if needed). We than use the HubSpot API to store the data in the right object.