# zapier integration
**URL:** https://forum.mautic.org/t/zapier-integration/3593
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [April 26, 2016, 4:53am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/zapier-integration/3593 "2016-04-26T04:53:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@pschrammel](https://forum.mautic.org/u/pschrammel)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2016, 4:53am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/zapier-integration/3593/1 "2016-04-26T04:53:25Z")
Hi,
sorry to bother you in a private conversation. I want to integrate mautic with zapier and the only show stopper is that my apps have to know lead ids as the zapier mautic plugin can’t do searches. You explained already in [https://www.mautic.org/community/index.php/254-zapier-integration](https://www.mautic.org/community/index.php/254-zapier-integration) that there’s a problem with zapier vs. mautic’s searches. Can you elaborate more on the problem? Perhaps I can contribute to find the 80% solution that works.
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### Author:  [@pschrammel](https://forum.mautic.org/u/pschrammel)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2016, 4:53am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/zapier-integration/3593/2 "2016-04-26T04:53:25Z")
Hi,
sorry to bother you in a private conversation. I want to integrate mautic with zapier and the only show stopper is that my apps have to know lead ids as the zapier mautic plugin can’t do searches. You explained already in [https://www.mautic.org/community/index.php/254-zapier-integration](https://www.mautic.org/community/index.php/254-zapier-integration) that there’s a problem with zapier vs. mautic’s searches. Can you elaborate more on the problem? Perhaps I can contribute to find the 80% solution that works.
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### Author:  [@zpetterd](https://forum.mautic.org/u/zpetterd)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2016, 8:42am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/zapier-integration/3593/3 "2016-04-26T08:42:37Z")
Hi,
The problem is actually to do with the fact that Mautic provides no external API to search for a lead. If you wanted to add that in and get it merged into the core code then it would be possible. Where do your leads originate from? For example a Mautic form, how do you get the lead into Mautic in the first place? I’m sure that there is somewhere along the way that you can pull the lead id out from.
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### Author:  [@pschrammel](https://forum.mautic.org/u/pschrammel)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2016, 7:02am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/zapier-integration/3593/4 "2016-04-27T07:02:24Z")
Is the API doc wrong or is outdated: [https://developer.mautic.org/?php#list-leads](https://developer.mautic.org/?php#list-leads) . Our process is: An app throws an event on a message bus (SNS), the devs connect this to a mautic queue (SQS). Mautic picks up the message and and does it#s thing. The important part is that the app is driving the process. It just generates the user\_id and puts it on the bus. Any further action has just this reference. So I’d like mautic to search for this user\_id and update the lead…
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### Author:  [@zpetterd](https://forum.mautic.org/u/zpetterd)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2016, 7:16am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/zapier-integration/3593/5 "2016-04-27T07:16:50Z")
I think that must be new. I will have a go adding it in.
Previously the issue was the Zapier rejects anything more than 4000 records being returned from a poll so the searching couldn’t be done on the Zapier side.
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### Author:  [@pschrammel](https://forum.mautic.org/u/pschrammel)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2016, 8:05am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/zapier-integration/3593/6 "2016-04-27T08:05:58Z")
Wow. that would be nice! Can I help you somehow? It’s a show stopper for one of my projects …
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### Author:  [@pschrammel](https://forum.mautic.org/u/pschrammel)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2016, 4:34am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/zapier-integration/3593/7 "2016-04-28T04:34:19Z")
Thank you very much! Works perfectly. Bye