Integrations overview
Integrations let you connect Zulip with other products. For example, you can get
notification messages in Zulip when an issue in your tracker is updated, or for
alerts from your monitoring tool.
Zulip offers over 120 native integrations, which take
advantage of Zulip's topics to organize
notification messages. Additionally, thousands of integrations are available
through Zapier and IFTTT.
You can also connect any webhook designed to work with
Slack to Zulip.
If you don't find an integration you need, you can:
Set up an integration
Native integrations
- Instructions for all platforms
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Search Zulip's integrations for the product you'd like to
connect to Zulip.
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Click on the card for the product, and follow the instructions on the page.
Integrate via Zapier or IFTTT
If you don't see a native Zulip integration, you can access thousands of
additional integrations through Zapier and
IFTTT.
- Instructions for all platforms
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Search Zapier or IFTTT
for the product you'd like to connect to Zulip.
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Follow the integration instructions for Zapier or
IFTTT.
Integrate via Slack-compatible webhook API
Zulip can process incoming webhook messages written to work with Slack's
webhook API. This makes it easy to
quickly move your integrations when migrating your
organization from Slack to Zulip, or integrate any
product that has a Slack webhook integration with Zulip .
Note: In the long term, the recommended approach is to use
Zulip's native integrations, which take advantage of Zulip's topics.
There may also be some quirks when Slack's formatting system is
translated into Zulip's.
- Instructions for all platforms
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Create a bot for the Slack-compatible
webhook. Make sure that you select Incoming webhook as the Bot type.
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Decide where to send Slack-compatible webhook notifications, and generate
the integration URL.
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Use the generated URL anywhere you would use a Slack webhook.
Integrate via email
If the product you'd like to integrate can send email notifications, you can
send those emails to a Zulip channel. The
email subject will become the Zulip topic, and the email body will become the
Zulip message.
For example, you can configure your personal GitHub notifications to go to a
Zulip channel rather than your email inbox. Notifications for each issue or pull
request will be grouped into a single topic.
Write your own integration
You can write your own Zulip integrations using the well-documented APIs below.
For example, if your company develops software, you can create a custom
integration to connect your product to Zulip.
If you need help, best-effort community support is available in the Zulip
development community. To inquire
about options for custom development, contact Zulip
Sales.
Sending content into Zulip
Sending and receiving content
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To react to activity inside Zulip, look at Zulip's
Python framework for interactive bots or
Zulip's real-time events API.
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If what you want isn't covered by the above, check out the full
REST API. The web, mobile, desktop, and terminal apps are
built on top of this API, so it can do anything a human user can do. Most
but not all of the endpoints are documented on this site; if you need
something that isn't there check out Zulip's
REST endpoints.
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