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Get the API name of a datapill in a recipe

Waldy — Thu, 14 May 2026 09:34:19 GMT

I'm receiving a payload in a webhook trigger that has section of JSON like:

I'm posting to an API that has an array like this:

I need to pass the datapill API name in ParameterName field and the datapill value in the ParameterValue field. I can't find anything in the documentation to be able to get a datapill API name.

Re: Get the API name of a datapill in a recipe

gary1 — Thu, 14 May 2026 15:57:10 GMT

You can use .keys to get the keys/API name in a hash. It's not recursive.

character = { "name": "Frodo Baggins", "race": "Hobbit", "age": 50, "home": "Bag End, the Shire", "role": "Ring-bearer", "weapon": "Sting", "companions": [ "Samwise Gamgee", "Gandalf", "Aragorn" ], "item": { "name": "The One Ring", "power": "dominion over all", "dangerous": true } } character.keys ## output: ## [ ## "name", ## "race", ## "age", ## "home", ## "role", ## "weapon", ## "companions", ## "item" ## ]

Re: Get the API name of a datapill in a recipe

Waldy — Thu, 14 May 2026 16:13:54 GMT

So this has to be done via the raw JSON payload rather than the data pills? I'm currently using the datapills that are returned from the webhook.

Re: Get the API name of a datapill in a recipe

gary1 — Thu, 14 May 2026 16:19:00 GMT

No, this works on the root data pill as well. If my example was used in a JSON parser action, I could use .keys on the "Document" output data pill.

Re: Get the API name of a datapill in a recipe

Waldy — Thu, 14 May 2026 16:56:59 GMT

Thanks Gary, I'll check it out!