Dribbble Zapier integrationAutomate Dribbble with Zapier.
The Dribbble Zapier integration gives you 1 trigger, 0 actions and 0 searches. One event, New Shot, and everything else happens in the other apps of your Zap. Here is what it does, what it costs, and where it stops short.
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What the Dribbble Zapier integration really does
Connecting Dribbble to Zapier means one thing: each time you upload a shot to your Dribbble account, Zapier notices it and hands it to another app. That is the whole list. Dribbble only speaks first here. It never receives anything back from Zapier, so the page below is about what happens after the upload.
Three outcomes come up again and again, and all three rest on the same trigger, New Shot.
A team ping. The shot goes up, and a message lands in the design channel of your chat tool. Nobody has to announce the upload by hand anymore.
A portfolio log. Every new shot adds a row to a spreadsheet or a database. Over time you build a list of what you published, without ever having kept it by hand.
A social relay. The upload becomes a draft post for another network, ready for you to reread before it goes out.
Now the part the app page does not spell out. Zapier cannot post a shot for you, cannot edit one, and cannot look up an older one: Dribbble has no action and no search here. If your idea starts somewhere else and ends on Dribbble, this integration will not carry it. Shots that were already on your profile before the Zap went live are not picked up either.
If you are weighing tools, the Dribbble Make integration covers the same app on Make, and Make vs Zapier lays out how the two differ in general.
Zapier words in one minute
Seven terms, each explained once. The rest of the page uses them without repeating the definition.
- Zap
- The automation you build on Zapier. It starts with one event and then runs one or more steps every single time that event happens.
- Trigger
- The event that starts a Zap. Here it is a new Dribbble shot. Once the Zap is on, Zapier keeps waiting for it.
- Action
- What the Zap does once it has started: write a row, send a message, create a draft. On this page, actions always live in other apps.
- Task
- The unit Zapier bills. One task equals one action that finished successfully. Your plan counts these, nothing else.
- Polling vs instant
- Polling: Zapier asks the app for new items on a timer. Instant: the app warns Zapier the moment something happens. New Shot is polling.
- Filter
- A step that lets the Zap continue only when what came in meets a rule you set. When the rule fails, the Zap stops right there.
- Connection
- Your Dribbble account linked to Zapier once, then reused by any Zap that needs it. You do not sign in again for each Zap.
What a Dribbble Zap costs you
Dribbble is not a premium app, so it works on the free plan.
- TriggerFree, never counted as a task
- Free plan100 tasks a month, two-step Zaps only
- Premium appNo, available on the free plan
The trigger costs nothing, however often Zapier checks for a new shot. You pay in tasks only when an action in another app succeeds, and a failed action is not counted. The free plan gives you 100 tasks a month and Zaps of two steps: the trigger plus one action. Add a filter or a second action and the Zap becomes a multi-step Zap, which needs a paid plan. A few apps and a few actions take more than one task when they complete, so check the app you send the shot to.
Connect your Dribbble account in three steps
- 01
Open the Apps page
In your Zapier account, go to Apps and click + Add connection. A dialog opens where you type the app name. Pick Dribbble from the list of search results.
- 02
Sign in to Dribbble
Click Add connection. A new tab opens on Dribbble: sign in with the account whose shots you want to follow. You need an account of your own there, obviously.
- 03
Grant access
Accept the access request so Zapier can read your account. The connection now shows on your Apps page, and every future Zap can reuse it without asking you to log in again.
Your first Dribbble Zap, step by step
GoalPost new shots in a Slack channel, but only the ones that carry a word you choose in a value you saw at the test.
- 01
Create the Zap
Start a new Zap and pick Dribbble as the app that starts it, then New Shot as the event. Choose the connection you made earlier.
- 02
Test the trigger
Run the test. Zapier brings back the three most recent shots of your account, so you work on a real one. Read what came back and pick the value your rule will look at.
- 03
Add the filter
Click the plus icon and add Filter. Point it at the value you picked in the test, use a text rule, and type your word. A number rule on text never passes.
- 04
Add the Slack step
Add Slack as the action, choose the channel, and drop what the Dribbble step returned into the message. Run the step once and check the channel.
- 05
Publish
Click Publish to switch the Zap on. Remember the filter makes this a multi-step Zap: on the free plan, drop the filter and keep just Dribbble plus Slack.
The Dribbble trigger
1 event starts a Zap when something happens in Dribbble. Zapier checks for them at the interval your plan allows.
New Shot
Polling triggerIn Zapier“Triggers when you upload a shot to Dribbble.”
Starts your Zap each time a shot you uploaded appears on your Dribbble account. The next steps receive that shot and can pass what it carries to a chat tool, a spreadsheet or a scheduling app.
When a Dribbble Zap breaks
Zapier ties no help article to Dribbble, so these are the general limits that hit this trigger.
Most surprises with a single polling trigger come from timing and history, not from errors. Here is what to expect. For a deeper dig, the Zapier troubleshooting page walks through broken Zaps in general.
Old shots are ignored
The Zap reacts only to shots uploaded after you publish it. Your existing portfolio is never replayed, so filling a log with past work has to be done another way.A delay that looks like a bug
On the free plan Zapier checks every 15 minutes, so a shot can wait a while before your message goes out. That is the interval, not a failure.A sudden batch gets held
If a huge number of new items shows up at once, Zapier's flood protection can hold them back instead of running the Zap for each one straight away.No duplicates
Zapier remembers which shots it has already seen on this trigger, so a later check will not start the Zap twice for the same shot.
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