Nextcloud Talk API

[andreasdueren]

Does anyone here have experience with the nextcloud talk API? My goal is to send a post request from freescout to my n8n instance when an email is assigned and translate that there and send a message to the user in question via nextcloud talk.

For one I'm not even sure where the API key is being generated or read out.

[svtx]

Not an expert on it but this might get you started:

Authentication:
https://docs.n8n.io/integrations/builtin/credentials/nextcloud/

Capabilities:
https://docs.n8n.io/integrations/builtin/app-nodes/n8n-nodes-base.nextcloud/

API:
https://nextcloud-talk.readthedocs.io/en/latest/conversation/
https://nextcloud-talk.readthedocs.io/en/latest/chat/

PHP API:
https://nextcloud-server.netlify.app/namespaces/ocp-talk

Edit: Sorry, just saw how old this post is...

[andreasdueren]

Haha no worries yes I am successfully using the API by now even though not in this setup

[vitalymp]

Could you please briefly explain how you did that? We would like to do something similar.

[andreasdueren]

@vitalymp I'm sorry I replaced freescout with chatwoot a while ago and deleted the associated n8n workflow with it. Which part of the integration are you struggling with?

[vitalymp]

Hi, thank you for your quick reply.

I want to post my Google Business reviews to a Nextcloud Talk chat channel. I can retrieve the reviews from Google. However, I have no idea how to send this content to my Nextcloud.

Perplexity says I should set up a bot and call its API, but I'm not sure if that's the right approach.

I connected Nextcloud to N8N via OAuth2.

[andreasdueren]

@vitalymp You can simply create a new user with some bot name and then make a POST call to your nextcloud instance using that users basic auth credentials after recieving data with a webhook. Something like this:

{
  "nodes": [
    {
      "parameters": {
        "method": "POST",
        "url": "https://cloud.tld.com/ocs/v2.php/apps/spreed/api/v4/chat/CHAT-ID",
        "authentication": "genericCredentialType",
        "genericAuthType": "httpBasicAuth",
        "sendQuery": true,
        "queryParameters": {
          "parameters": [
            {
              "name": "message",
              "value": "=Message content"
            }
          ]
        },
        "sendHeaders": true,
        "headerParameters": {
          "parameters": [
            {
              "name": "OCS-APIRequest",
              "value": "true"
            },
            {
              "name": "Content-Type",
              "value": "application/json"
            },
            {
              "name": "Accept",
              "value": "application/json"
            }
          ]
        },
        "options": {}
      },
      "id": "3efc34ee-e77a-477f-9cbd-9e039f64e143",
      "name": "Post Message to NC Talk room",
      "type": "n8n-nodes-base.httpRequest",
      "typeVersion": 4.2,
      "position": [
        1872,
        160
      ],
      "credentials": {
        "nextCloudApi": {
          "id": "RQ8xpIKWFMblRfYZ",
          "name": "cloud.tld.com – bot"
        },
        "httpHeaderAuth": {
          "id": "v09VrkQtu9eIAUEl",
          "name": "Header Auth account"
        },
        "httpBasicAuth": {
          "id": "6ASiFBk1BEcktXcq",
          "name": "cloud.tld.com bot"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "parameters": {
        "path": "a907934a-19a1-4ced-b919-f1db35a4fa93",
        "options": {}
      },
      "id": "f11e1143-0a6b-4867-abb2-f03a235e0ed0",
      "name": "Webhook",
      "type": "n8n-nodes-base.webhook",
      "typeVersion": 2,
      "position": [
        1424,
        160
      ],
      "webhookId": "a907934a-19a1-4ced-b919-f1db35a4fa93"
    }
  ],
  "connections": {
    "Webhook": {
      "main": [
        [
          {
            "node": "Post Message to NC Talk room",
            "type": "main",
            "index": 0
          }
        ]
      ]
    }
  },
  "pinData": {},
  "meta": {
    "templateCredsSetupCompleted": true,
    "instanceId": "a382289a228a66b7e622210301ab5b6d8d06d93edb07378019866ea75d7e5793"
  }
}