Beamer Make integrationAutomate Beamer with Make.
Could your changelog update itself when a feature ships? The Beamer Make integration gives you 7 modules to watch, create, edit and find posts. This guide is for product and marketing teams: connect your account, then build a first scenario that turns a release into a Beamer post.
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What can the Beamer Make integration do for your team?
The Beamer Make integration links your Beamer account to Make, a visual tool where you build a scenario: a chain of steps that runs on a schedule or when an app calls Make. Each step is a module, one brick from one app. With Beamer you get one trigger, five actions and one search, all about the posts in your changelog.
Publish release notes from where the work happens. A scenario can start in the tool your developers use to mark a feature as done, then call Create a Post so the announcement lands in Beamer with the title and text you mapped. Nobody has to copy and paste between tabs.
Spread every new post beyond the widget. Watch Posts picks up each new post, and the next module can forward it to a newsletter tool, a chat channel or a spreadsheet that tracks what you shipped. Support hears about the change at the next check, without waiting for someone to pass it on.
Keep old announcements tidy. Search Posts finds the posts that match what you look for, Update a Post corrects them and Delete a Post removes the ones that no longer apply. Be careful with the last one: a deleted post does not come back.
Where the listed modules stop, Make an API Call reaches any endpoint of the Beamer API with the same connection. Want a second opinion on the platform first? Read our Make review, compare plans on Make pricing, or weigh the alternative in n8n vs Make.
How do you connect Beamer to Make?
- 01
Copy your Beamer API key
In Beamer, open Settings, click API and copy the key shown on screen. You need an active Beamer account for this; the key is what lets Make act on your posts, so keep it private.
- 02
Open a Beamer module in Make
Log in to Make, add any Beamer module to your scenario and click Create a connection. A connection is your Beamer account linked to Make once, then reused by every Beamer module you add.
- 03
Name it and paste the key
The Connection name field is optional, but a clear name helps when you manage several Beamer accounts. Paste the API key you copied, or follow the on-screen instructions, and save. Make can now read your posts.
Your first scenario: turn a release into a Beamer post
GoalWhen a feature is marked as released in the tool your team already uses, Make creates the matching post in Beamer.
- 01
Create the scenario
From the Scenarios page, create a new scenario and click the big +. This first module is the trigger: the event that starts everything.
- 02
Pick the release event
Search the app where releases are tracked and choose its module for a finished item. Connect that account the same way you connected Beamer, then fill its fields from the lists Make shows you.
- 03
Add Create a Post
Click the + on the right of the first module, search Beamer and pick Create a Post. Map the release name into the title and its description into the post body.
- 04
Test with Run once
Click Run once to execute the scenario a single time. Each module shows the bundles it received, meaning the items passed along, so you can check the draft post before your users see it.
- 05
Schedule it and switch it on
Open the clock on the first module. A new scenario checks every 15 minutes by default, and the Free plan cannot go faster. Save, then flip the scenario on.
What starts a Beamer scenario
1 module starts a scenario when something happens in Beamer. A scheduled trigger is checked by Make on the scenario's schedule; an instant one is called by Beamer as soon as it happens.
Watch Posts
Scheduled triggerIn Make“Triggers when a new post is created.”
Watch Posts notices every new post created in your Beamer account and hands it to the next module, so an announcement can travel further without anyone forwarding it by hand. Each post arrives as its own bundle.
Everything Beamer can do in a scenario
Beamer gives you 6 modules. For each one: what it does for you, when to reach for it, and what to watch out for.
Create a Post
ActionIn Make“Creates a new post. Multiple translations are only available on the Startup plan (and up).”
Create a Post publishes a fresh announcement in your Beamer changelog using data mapped from earlier modules, so release notes write themselves from the ticket or form where the details already live.
Delete a Post
ActionIn Make“Deletes an existing post.”
With Delete a Post, an announcement disappears from Beamer as soon as the scenario reaches this step, which keeps your widget free of features you rolled back or offers that ended.
Get a Post
ActionIn Make“Retrieves an existing post by its ID.”
Get a Post brings back one existing post from its ID, giving later modules its full content to reuse, quote or check before they act on it.
Make an API Call
ActionIn Make“Performs an arbitrary authorized API call.”
Make an API Call lets you reach any endpoint of the Beamer API from your scenario, reusing the connection you already set up, so a missing module does not block you.
Update a Post
ActionIn Make“Updates an existing post by its ID.”
Update a Post rewrites an existing announcement identified by its ID, so a correction made in your source tool also reaches the version your users read in Beamer.
Search Posts
SearchIn Make“Searches posts.”
Search Posts finds the Beamer posts that match your criteria and returns zero, one or many results, each as its own bundle for the next module to process.
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