This tutorial shows how to make an existing Spark bot more secure. If you are building your first bot, it is recommended you start with this tutorial. Then come back here once it’s up and running! If someone outside of your organization never interac...

To protect the Spark environment, the API has rate limits in place for the different resources available for use, such as /messages and /rooms.  These limits will vary depending on the calls being made, how resource intensive that call is on the serv...

If you’ve ever wondered, “How do I retrieve a file using the API – it’s just a URL with an encrypted ID!”, this example should hold the answer.  It uses a bot to download a file sent to a 1:1 room (a conversation between the bot and a single user), u...

Uploading a remote file to a Cisco Spark room using a web-accessible URL is fairly self explanatory -  just supply the URL in the “files” field of a create message request: https://developer.ciscospark.com/endpoint-messages-post.htmlBut this only wor...

The recently released advanced webhooks include the ability to define a “secret” in your webhook, which will pass along with your webhook as a header called “X-Spark-Signature”. This can be used to validate a request is coming from the Spark API and ...