Keeping users in Indenity service in sync with CMS database

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#1

I’ve started using Identity service for my frontend. But I also have a CMS on back-end with users. I want to keep these user lists in sync, what would be the best approach for me to do that? I found that Netlify can send a webhook when some event happens in Identity service, but how can I use it on back-end? Should I somehow query Netlify for users? I didn’t found the API for Identity service. Thanks!

#2

Hi @maxkoretskyi, you can get a list of your Identity users by creating a Netlify Lambda Function that does this: https://github.com/netlify/gotrue-js#get-a-list-of-users. You can invoke that with an Authorization header that contains an Identity user with an admin role.

Alternatively, you can set up a Netlify Lambda function that gets triggered by a signup (https://docs.netlify.com/functions/functions-and-identity/#trigger-serverless-functions-on-identity-events) that will perform some action against your backend.

Let me know if that helps.

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#3

Hey @Dennis, thanks a lot for your response!
Just to clarify a few things:

  1. With the first approach:

get a list of your Identity users by creating a Netlify Lambda Function that does this…

I can run this function to retrieve and return all users from Netlify’s Identity and then somehow trigger this function through Netlify’s API from my server to get the list?

  1. With the second approach

you can set up a Netlify Lambda function that gets triggered by a signup…

and then this lambda function can make a post request to update my remote server’s DB with the event data, correct?

  1. How do I run a Netlify Lambda Function on localhost for testing, particularly how to make authentication work? The event and context parameters and correspondingly context.clientContext I get here won’t be available:
exports.handler = async (event, context) => { ... }

Thanks!