---
title: "Send meetings to a web address (webhook)"
description: "Have Recordstead POST each meeting as signed JSON to Zapier, Make, n8n or your own server once processing is done."
updated: "2026-10-18"
canonical: https://docs.recordstead.app/automation/send-to-a-webhook
---

# Send meetings to a web address (webhook)

Recordstead can send each meeting as JSON to a web address, such as a Zapier,
Make or n8n hook or your own server. Unlike the other integrations, this sends
meeting text off your Mac, to the address you set.

## Set it up

1. Open **Settings** (⌘,) › **Integrations**.
2. Click **+** under the list and choose **Webhook**.
3. Paste the address into **URL**. It must start with `https://`, unless the
   server runs on this Mac.
4. Click **Copy** next to the secret and give it to your server, so it can check
   that requests come from Recordstead.
5. Click **Send Test** to send an invented meeting that has every part you chose.
6. Click **Save**. For an address outside this Mac, Recordstead first names the
   address and what it will get, and asks you to agree. Click **Use This Address**.

**Your result:** each meeting you record or add from now on is sent to that
address. The row shows when it last sent. For meetings you already have,
including one that was in progress, choose **Send Earlier Meetings** in **⋯**.

## What arrives

A POST with one JSON object, the same fields a
[shortcut or a command](https://docs.recordstead.app/automation/run-a-shortcut-or-command) gets, and three
headers from the [Standard Webhooks](https://www.standardwebhooks.com) spec:
`webhook-id`, `webhook-timestamp` and `webhook-signature`. A library for that spec
checks the signature with the secret as you copied it. A retry keeps its
`webhook-id`, so your server can ignore a repeat; every change gets a new one. A
meeting over 1.5 MB is sent without its transcript.

**New Secret** makes another one; your server must then use it.

## If a meeting is not sent

The row says what the address answered and when Recordstead tries again. A busy
or unreachable address is tried again by itself. An address that refuses, says it
is gone or redirects elsewhere is not; fix it, then choose **Try Again** in **⋯**.
If you change the address or send more parts, Recordstead asks you to agree again.

With **Processing is done**, a meeting whose summary failed waits until it has
one, and the row does not show it. Use **Generate** on the meeting’s Summary step; once the summary is made, the
meeting is sent.