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# Fire an automation with a signed request

POST https://api.cloudraker.com/v1/automations/{ref}/trigger

Fires an automation from your own stack (Zapier, GitHub Actions, an internal cron). The agent answers in a real thread your team can join, with the same approval gate as any other run — a proposed action still waits for a human.

Authentication is a per-automation HMAC, not an API key: send `x-rk1-trigger-signature: t=<unix-seconds>,v1=<hex hmac-sha256("<t>.<raw body>", secret)>`. The secret is shown once when the automation is created and can be rotated. Requests more than 5 minutes old are rejected. Body: `{}` or `{ "input": <json ≤ 8 KiB> }`, which is rendered into the message the agent receives.

A run already live in the automation’s thread answers `busy` (the slot is skipped, never duplicated); one parked on an approval answers `needs_input`.

Reference: https://docs.cloudraker.com/api/cloud-raker-api/workspace/automations/trigger-automation

## Authentication

- `Authorization` header (bearer token, required)

## Request

### Path parameters

- `ref` (string, required)

## Response

### 200

The fire outcome.

- `data` (object, required)
  - `automationRunId` (string, required)
  - `threadId` (string, required, nullable)
  - `runId` (string, required, nullable)
  - `status` (enum, required)
    - Allowed values: `started`, `success`, `busy`, `needs_input`, `blocked`, `error`

## Examples

**Response**

```json
{
  "data": {
    "automationRunId": "string",
    "threadId": "string",
    "runId": "string",
    "status": "started"
  }
}
```

**SDK Code**

```typescript
import { CloudRakerClient } from "@cloudraker/api";

async function main() {
    const client = new CloudRakerClient({
        token: "YOUR_TOKEN_HERE",
    });
    await client.automations.triggerAutomation({
        ref: "ref",
    });
}
main();

```

```python
from cloudraker import CloudRaker

client = CloudRaker(
    token="YOUR_TOKEN_HERE",
)

client.automations.trigger_automation(
    ref="ref",
)

```

```go
package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://api.cloudraker.com/v1/automations/ref/trigger"

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, nil)

	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(res)
	fmt.Println(string(body))

}
```

```ruby
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://api.cloudraker.com/v1/automations/ref/trigger")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body
```

```java
import com.mashape.unirest.http.HttpResponse;
import com.mashape.unirest.http.Unirest;

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://api.cloudraker.com/v1/automations/ref/trigger")
  .header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
  .asString();
```

```php
<?php
require_once('vendor/autoload.php');

$client = new \GuzzleHttp\Client();

$response = $client->request('POST', 'https://api.cloudraker.com/v1/automations/ref/trigger', [
  'headers' => [
    'Authorization' => 'Bearer <token>',
  ],
]);

echo $response->getBody();
```

```csharp
using RestSharp;

var client = new RestClient("https://api.cloudraker.com/v1/automations/ref/trigger");
var request = new RestRequest(Method.POST);
request.AddHeader("Authorization", "Bearer <token>");
IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);
```

```swift
import Foundation

let headers = ["Authorization": "Bearer <token>"]

let request = NSMutableURLRequest(url: NSURL(string: "https://api.cloudraker.com/v1/automations/ref/trigger")! as URL,
                                        cachePolicy: .useProtocolCachePolicy,
                                    timeoutInterval: 10.0)
request.httpMethod = "POST"
request.allHTTPHeaderFields = headers

let session = URLSession.shared
let dataTask = session.dataTask(with: request as URLRequest, completionHandler: { (data, response, error) -> Void in
  if (error != nil) {
    print(error as Any)
  } else {
    let httpResponse = response as? HTTPURLResponse
    print(httpResponse)
  }
})

dataTask.resume()
```