Connect Zapier
Send every EarlyForge article to 9,000+ apps — Notion, Slack, Airtable, Mailchimp — through a Zapier webhook.
Connect Zapier
Zapier turns every published article into a trigger for 9,000+ apps: post it to Slack, archive it in Notion or Airtable, feed a newsletter in Mailchimp — anything Zapier can do. EarlyForge delivers the full article (title, HTML, Markdown, tags, image, SEO fields) to a webhook URL that your Zap listens on.
Prerequisites
- A Zapier account. "Webhooks by Zapier" is a premium app — included in Zapier's free trial and paid plans.
Create the Zap
Create a new Zap
Go to zapier.com/app/zaps and click Create → Zaps.
Add the trigger: Webhooks by Zapier
Click the Trigger step and search for webhooks — pick Webhooks by Zapier (the orange built-in app, not an app with "catch" in its name).
Choose the event "Catch Hook"
In Trigger event, select Catch Hook, then click Continue through the Setup and Configure tabs (you can leave "Pick off a Child Key" empty).
Copy your webhook URL
On the Test tab, Zapier shows "Your webhook URL" — something like https://hooks.zapier.com/hooks/catch/1234567/abcdef/. Click Copy.
Paste it in EarlyForge
In EarlyForge, go to Connectors → Zapier → Add a site, paste the URL into Webhook URL, give the connection a name and click Connect site.
Send a test article
Open any article in EarlyForge and click Publish → your Zapier connection. Back in Zapier's Test tab, click Find new records: your article appears with every field ready to map — title, intro, content_html, content_markdown, tags, image_url, seo_title, seo_description.
Add your action and publish the Zap
Add step 2 of the Zap (e.g. Notion → Create page, Slack → Send message), map the article fields, then click Publish. From now on, every article delivered to this connection flows through your Zap. 🎉
Verify deliveries (optional)
Set a Shared Secret in the connection's Advanced options and EarlyForge signs every payload with HMAC-SHA256 in the X-IANews-Signature header — verify it in a Zapier Code step if your workflow needs authenticity guarantees.
One Zap per destination works best. Need articles in Notion and Slack? Either add several action steps to one Zap, or create several Catch Hooks and connect each URL as a separate EarlyForge connection.
Next steps
- Connectors overview — auto-publish vs manual, Activity log, retries
- Webhooks — send signed webhooks to your own backend without Zapier