Beamer

12 tools available

Beamer is a platform that enables companies to announce news, updates, and features directly within their applications or websites, enhancing user engagement and communication.

Connect Beamer to Definable to automate repetitive tasks, sync data with the rest of your stack, trigger on real-world events. Personas call Beamer's 12 tools directly from chat or scheduled flows. You can wire it into any persona to read, write, and react when an event fires.

Common workflows with Beamer

01

Trigger on event

  1. Listen for a new event
  2. Parse and validate the payload
  3. Take an action with the linked tool
02

Daily summary

  1. Pull yesterday's activity
  2. Summarise with the model of your choice
  3. Send the digest via email or Slack
03

Cross-tool sync

  1. Read records from one app
  2. Transform with a persona
  3. Write the result back via this integration

Beamer actions 12

Every Beamer action below is a callable tool any Definable persona can invoke.

Count Post Comments

Tool to count existing comments on a specific post. Use when you need the total number of comments matching specific filters.

Count Post Reactions

Tool to count existing reactions on a specific post. Use when you need the total number of reactions for a given post.

Count Posts

Tool to count existing posts. Use when you need the number of posts matching specific filters.

Count Unread Posts

Tool to count unread posts for a user. Use when you need the number of posts the user would see when opening their Beamer feed.

Get Category

Tool to retrieve metadata for a Beamer category by its ID. Use when you need category information for filtering or grouping posts. Beamer uses a fixed set of categories: new, improvement, fix, comingsoon, announcement, and other.

Get Feed

Tool to retrieve the URL for your standalone feed. Use after embedding to fetch the feed link for embedding or sharing.

Get Notification

Tool to retrieve details of a specific notification by its unique notification ID. Use after obtaining the notification ID to fetch its full details.

Get Notifications

Tool to fetch unread notifications. Use after providing user context to retrieve and mark notifications as read.

Get Post Comments

Tool to retrieve comments for a specific post. Use after identifying the post ID to list its comments.

Get Post Reactions

Tool to retrieve all reactions associated with a specific post. Use when you need to list reactions and optionally filter by date, reaction type, or pagination.

Get Posts

Tool to retrieve a list of posts. Use when you need IDs and titles of posts for further operations.

Ping API

Tool to ping the Beamer API. Use when verifying API key authentication before making further requests.

Frequently asked questions

What can I automate with Beamer on Definable?

Anything Beamer exposes through its API. Common notifications workflows on Definable include automate repetitive tasks, sync data with the rest of your stack, trigger on real-world events. Personas can call any of the 12 Beamer tools directly, then chain the result into another integration without you writing code.

How does Beamer authentication work?

Beamer uses API_KEY on Definable. You connect once from the integrations page, scoped to the permissions you choose, and from then on any persona that has the integration enabled can act on your behalf. Tokens are encrypted at rest and rotated automatically.

Is the Beamer integration included in my Definable plan?

Yes — every Definable plan, including Starter, includes access to all 12 Beamer tools. You only need a separate Beamer subscription if Beamer itself charges per seat or per API call.

Is using Beamer through Definable secure?

Every call from a persona to Beamer is logged with the user, persona, prompt, and response. Tokens never leave Definable's secrets vault, scopes are configurable per persona, and you can revoke access at any time from the integration page.

How do I get started with Beamer on Definable?

Sign up for Definable, open the integrations page, find Beamer, and connect via OAuth or API key. You can immediately attach Beamer to any persona and start running workflows. The free Starter plan includes 5,000 credits/month.

What Beamer actions does Definable expose?

Definable exposes all 12 Beamer actions as callable tools — including `Count Post Comments`, `Count Post Reactions`, `Count Posts`, plus 9 more. Each tool gets a typed parameter schema so personas know exactly how to call it.

Ready to automate with Beamer?

Wire it up in minutes. No coding required.

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