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title: "Deliver asynchronous notifications in Google Chat using webhooks (Webhooks + Apps Script = Magic)"
author: "Martin Hawksey"
date: 2021-08-10T21:48:16+00:00
modified: 2021-08-10T21:49:45+00:00
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categories:
  - "Chat"
  - "Intermediate"
  - "Official News"
  - "Solutions"
  - "V8"
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  - "@chasmaxson"
  - "developers.googleblog.com"
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description: "For community members receiving these timely updates, this “bot” may seem magical. In reality, it’s neither magic nor a traditional Chat bot, so the reference in the Chat UI calling it a “bot” is a bit of a misnomer. The Google Updates “bot” is in fact a simple Google Apps Script application that parses the RSS feed about new posts, and sends them asynchronously to the room via webhooks."
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# Deliver asynchronous notifications in Google Chat using webhooks (Webhooks + Apps Script = Magic)

![Deliver asynchronous notifications in Google Chat using webhooks (Webhooks + Apps Script = Magic)](https://pulse.appsscript.info/files/2021/08/G2BWorkspace2BCommunity.png)

> [https://developers.googleblog.com/2021/08/deliver-asynchronous-notifications-in-google-chat-using-webhooks.html](https://developers.googleblog.com/2021/08/deliver-asynchronous-notifications-in-google-chat-using-webhooks.html)For community members receiving these timely updates, this “bot” may seem magical. In reality, it’s neither magic nor a traditional Chat bot, so the reference in the Chat UI calling it a “bot” is a bit of a misnomer. The Google Updates “bot” is in fact a simple Google Apps Script application that parses the RSS feed about new posts, and sends them asynchronously to the room via webhooks.

We’ve highlighted the ‘Wexbot’ before both in a Pulse post and in a Totally Unscripted episode, but nice to see it also feature in the official Google Developers blog.

Source: [Deliver asynchronous notifications in Google Chat using webhooks**](https://developers.googleblog.com/2021/08/deliver-asynchronous-notifications-in-google-chat-using-webhooks.html)

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*Published by [Martin Hawksey](https://pulse.appsscript.info/p/author/admin/) on [Pulse](https://pulse.appsscript.info/). Original article: [https://pulse.appsscript.info/p/2021/08/deliver-asynchronous-notifications-in-google-chat-using-webhooks-webhooks-apps-script-magic/](https://pulse.appsscript.info/p/2021/08/deliver-asynchronous-notifications-in-google-chat-using-webhooks-webhooks-apps-script-magic/)*