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2024-01-05

Validating WebFlow Webhook Requests in AWS Lambda and Python

WebFlow is an outstanding website design, development, and hosting platform. The WebFlow API provides webhooks for a variety of important events, and it signs its webhook requests to allow users to validate webhook requests, and therefore confirm that requests actually come from WebFlow.

The below code sample shows how to verify WebFlow webhook requests in AWS Lambda functions using Python invoked via a Function URL, although the code will show the principles for validating requests in any language or platform.

2023-03-072023-12-18

Adding Code Blocks with Syntax Highlighting to WebFlow

EDIT: WebFlow now supports Code Blocks out of the box! However, it only supports them in Pages, not in CMS Collection Entries, so it’s not a total solution. This article’s approach works in CMS Collection Entries, so if you need code blocks there, read on!

I’m in the process of developing the marketing website for Arachnio. Being an API product, I need to embed code in some of the site’s pages and blog posts. The website is built on WebFlow, which I have found to be generally outstanding, but it does not support inline code or code blocks out of the box. Here’s how I got code blocks with syntax highlighting working in WebFlow.