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Creating workflows using the Zapier Workflow API is a recent addition, and there are some known limitations.

Known Limitations

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Introduction

This guide walks through the entire process of building an automated workflow for your users to use -- front picking apps, adding authentication, filling inputs and publishing.

How to Build a Workflow

Fields and Fieldsets

An Action is an operation that can be performed against a third-party API; either a `READ` or a `WRITE`.

Selecting an Action

Support users in selecting 3rd party authentications, either through an existing authentication or by adding new.

Selecting an Authentication

Listing apps available on Zapier is a simple way to show users all of what's possible on Zapier

Retrieving Apps on Zapier

Listing a users zaps reveals existing workflows created by users.

Retrieving a list of users Zaps

Zap templates are pre-made Zaps that help users discover popular use cases for automating their work. Each template features a specific use case and the apps needed for it to work.

Retrieving Zap Templates

With an embedded Zap editor in your product, your users can create and edit their Zaps without leaving your app.

Embedding the Zapier Editor

The Workflow Element is a prebuilt UI component that offers the quickest—and easiest—way to surface your Zapier integration directly within your own product.

Embed the Workflow Element

Keeping our elements secure and usable is critical at Zapier

Element Security

Insights are available to review the performance of your embed, and track usage growth.

Embed Insights

Prefills allow you to define the input fields on behalf of the user, simplying the experience of setting up their Zap.

Pre-filled Zaps

Quick Account Creation is a seamless, accelerated sign-up feature allowing first time Zapier users to skip the standard sign-up procedure and onboarding survey. Enabling Quick Account Creation as part of your embed tool code helps provide a more frictionless experience for end users.

Quick Account Creation

Authenticate with The Zapier Workflow API

Zapier Authentication

Rate limits when accessing the Workflow API   

Rate Limiting

This endpoint returns a list of apps sorted popularity. See [here](/guides/list-apps) to get started.

This API is rate limited. See [Rate Limiting](https://docs.api.zapier.com/api-reference/getting-started/rate-limiting) for more details.

Get Apps [v1]

This endpoint returns a list of apps sorted popularity. See [here](/guides/list-apps) to get started.

This API is rate limited. See [Rate Limiting](https://docs.api.zapier.com/api-reference/getting-started/rate-limiting) for more details.

#### OAuth
This endpoint requires the `zap` OAuth scope.

Get Apps [v2]

List of Zap categories

This API is rate limited. See [Rate Limiting](https://docs.api.zapier.com/api-reference/getting-started/rate-limiting) for more details.

Get Categories

Create a new user and obtain an access token. See [here](/guides/quac/intro-quac#add-support-to-the-workflow-api) to get started.

This API is rate limited. See [Rate Limiting](https://docs.api.zapier.com/api-reference/getting-started/rate-limiting) for more details.

Create Account

This endpoint returns the authenticated user information

This API is rate limited. See [Rate Limiting](https://docs.api.zapier.com/api-reference/getting-started/rate-limiting) for more details.

#### OAuth
This endpoint requires the `profile` OAuth scope.

User Profile

List popular Zap Templates using your app. See [here](/guides/list-zap-templates) to get started.

This API is rate limited. See [Rate Limiting](https://docs.api.zapier.com/api-reference/getting-started/rate-limiting) for more details.

Get Zap Templates

This URL creates a new Zap based on a series of steps and a given title.

This API is rate limited. See [Rate Limiting](https://docs.api.zapier.com/api-reference/getting-started/rate-limiting) for more details.

#### OAuth
This endpoint requires the `zap:write` OAuth scope.

Create a Zap

This endpoint returns a list of Zaps for the authenticated Zapier user.

This API is rate limited. See [Rate Limiting](https://docs.api.zapier.com/api-reference/getting-started/rate-limiting) for more details.

#### OAuth
This endpoint requires the `zap` OAuth scope.

Get Zaps [v1]

This endpoint returns a list of Zaps for the authenticated Zapier user.

The `expand` array can be used to expand selected fields into full objects in the response.  Inputs with keys can
also be passed to filter Zaps by certain criteria.

This API is rate limited. See [Rate Limiting](https://docs.api.zapier.com/api-reference/getting-started/rate-limiting) for more details.

#### OAuth
This endpoint requires the `zap`, or `zap:all` OAuth scope.

Get Zaps [v2]

Fetch the available actions for the provided App. It's typical to filter by type so that only actions that make sense for a particular step are shown. Action IDs may not be reused, see our documentation [here](https://docs.api.zapier.com/guides/custom-flows/Hardcoding-an-Action) for how to hardcode a particular action.

This API is rate limited. See [Rate Limiting](https://docs.api.zapier.com/api-reference/getting-started/rate-limiting) for more details.

#### OAuth
This endpoint requires the `zap` OAuth scope.

Get Actions

Get the Input Fields for a particular Action, using the provided authentication and inputs.  See [here](/guides/getting-started/Fields-and-Fieldsets) for more information.

This API is rate limited. See [Rate Limiting](https://docs.api.zapier.com/api-reference/getting-started/rate-limiting) for more details.

#### OAuth
This endpoint requires the `zap:write` OAuth scope.

Get Input Fields

Get the Output Fields for a particular Action, using the provided authentication and inputs.

This API is rate limited. See [Rate Limiting](https://docs.api.zapier.com/api-reference/getting-started/rate-limiting) for more details.

#### OAuth
This endpoint requires the `zap:write` OAuth scope.

Get Output Fields

Get the possible values for an Input Field that is marked as `SELECT`.

This API is rate limited. See [Rate Limiting](https://docs.api.zapier.com/api-reference/getting-started/rate-limiting) for more details.

#### OAuth
This endpoint requires the `zap` OAuth scope.

Get Choices

Tests the action (step) in the third party api, using the provided authentication and inputs.

This API is rate limited. See [Rate Limiting](https://docs.api.zapier.com/api-reference/getting-started/rate-limiting) for more details.

#### OAuth
This endpoint requires the `zap:write` OAuth scope.

Step Test

Fetch the available Authentications for the provided App. This will only return Authentications that are owned by the user and not those that are shared with them, since it's not possible to create Zaps with Authentications you don't own.

This API is rate limited. See [Rate Limiting](https://docs.api.zapier.com/api-reference/getting-started/rate-limiting) for more details.

#### OAuth
This endpoint requires the `authentication` OAuth scope.

Get Authentications

Creates a new Authentication for the provided App.  See [here](/guides/custom-flows/adding-an-authentication) to get started.

This API is rate limited. See [Rate Limiting](https://docs.api.zapier.com/api-reference/getting-started/rate-limiting) for more details.

#### OAuth
This endpoint requires the `authentication:write` OAuth scope.

Create Authentication

Errors in the API follow the <a href="https://jsonapi.org/format/#error-objects" target="_blank">recommendation</a> from the JSON API spec.

Errors

Pagination

Requests

Responses for the API follow the <a href="https://jsonapi.org/format/#fetching-resources-responses-200" target="_blank">JSON API spec</a> for fetching resources.

Getting Started

Workflow API

Workflow Element

Embed Enhancements

Known Limitations