Looker's Action API allows developers to define actions, or custom destinations to which Looker can send query results, dashboard results, or user interactions.

Note: The Looker Action Hub, a Looker-hosted service that provides common, prebuilt actions, is built on top of the Action API. SeeLooker Action Hub to learn more.

Once an action is developed, deployed as a web service, and then added to a Looker instance, Looker users will be able to send data using that action from within Looker. For more information, see theSharing data through an action hub documentation page.

Using Actions

The Action API supports a number of variations in use cases:

• Actions support various levels of user interactivity. They may be designed for ad hoc user interactions while a user is viewing a dashboard, or they may be intended to work with recurring or triggered schedules.
• Actions can instruct Looker to collect form data from users, in order to parameterize the handling of the data.
• Actions can even request user authentication to a third party service using OAuth, for example to implicitly deliver data to user-specific destinations.
• Actions can also receive query results in various formats, from data oriented formats like CSV and Excel, to various JSON formats for programmatic use cases, to visualization-oriented formats like PNG or PDF.

While these use cases are diverse, the common thread between them is that Looker users are able to instruct Looker to reach out and send data to an Action.

As a result, implementing an Action involves deploying a web service to listen for these requests.

This can be achieved by adding a few new endpoints to an existing application server, deploying a web server exclusively for this purpose, or even using a serverless environment such as Google Cloud Run functions. The Action API does not require the service to maintain any state between requests, so Action servers can benefit from scalable and flexible stateless deployment configurations.

Finally, since the Action API consists of JSON-formatted HTTP POST requests, any server side language can be readily used to implement an action. Looker provides several examples in TypeScript, including the open-sourcecode for our ActionHub.

List of integrated services

The following list shows the services that are are available in the Looker Action Hub.

Caution: Individual Actions shown on the following list are not officially supported Google products.

Here is how to use the list:

• The URLs that are shown in theLink to README file column provide instructions for enabling and configuring the integrated service to work with Looker.
• The URLs that are shown in theHow to use this integration column provide instructions for how to send data from Looker to the integrated service. Some of these articles also contain enablement instructions.
• Required LookML tags lists any required tags that must be used with thetags parameter in the content's underlying model.
• Action type indicates what level of data the integrated service is sending: field, query, or dashboard. A field-level action sends the value of a single, specified cell in a data table. A query-level action sends the results of an entire query, such as all rows in an Explore or a Look. A dashboard-level action sends an image of a dashboard.
• Content available for scheduled deliveries indicates what type of Looker content this integrated service can send as an ad hoc or scheduledcontent delivery.
• Uses Google OAuth authentication indicates whether the integrated service uses Google OAuth credentials for authentication. Customer-hosted instances may be unable to enable actions from the Looker Action Hub that use Google OAuth. See theSharing data through an action hub documentation page for suggested solutions to this potential issue.
• Uses data streaming indicates whether the integrated service supports streamed query results. Customer-hosted instances may be unable to enable actions from the Looker Action Hub that stream results. See theSharing data through an action hub documentation page for suggested solutions to this potential issue.
• Minimum supported Looker version provides the earliest Looker version that your instance must be using in order to use this integration.

Integrated service	Description	Link to README file	How to use this integration	Required LookML tags	Action type	Content available for scheduled deliveries	Uses Google OAuth authentication (Yes/No)	Uses data streaming (Yes/No)	Minimum supported Looker version
Airtable	Add records to a table in Airtable.	View README on GitHub	View Community article	None	Query	Look, Explore	No	No	5.6
Amazon SageMaker Infer	Perform an inference using Amazon SageMaker.	No README available	No article available	None	Query	Look, Explore	No	Yes	5.6
Amazon SageMaker Train: Linear Learner	Start a training job on Amazon SageMaker, using the Linear Learner algorithm.	No README available	No article available	None	Query	Look, Explore	No	Yes	5.6
Amazon SageMaker Train: Xgboost	Start a training job on Amazon SageMaker, using the Xgboost algorithm.	No README available	No article available	None	Query	Look, Explore	No	Yes	5.6
Amazon Web Services EC2 Stop Instance	Stop an EC2 Instance using the Amazon EC2 API.	View README on GitHub	View Community article	aws_resource_id	Field, query	Look, Explore	No	No	5.6
Auger	Use query result to build a predictive model.	View README on GitHub	See README	None	Query	Look, Explore	No	Yes	5.24
Azure Storage	Send and store a data file on Azure Storage.	View README on GitHub	View Community article	None	Query, dashboard	Look, Explore, dashboard	No	Yes (for queries), No (for dashboards)	5.6
Braze	The Braze action lets you flag users within Braze using the REST API Endpoint from a Look. Ensure there's abraze_id field tagged in the results. MAX EXPORT: 10000.	View README on GitHub	See README	braze_id	Query	Look, Explore	No	Yes	5.6
DigitalOcean — Stop Droplet	Stop DigitalOcean process using the DigitalOcean API.	View README on GitHub	View Community article	digitalocean_droplet_id	Field, query	Look, Explore	No	No	5.6
DigitalOcean Spaces	Send to and store a data file in DigitalOcean Storage.	View README on GitHub	View Community article	None	Query, dashboard	Look, Explore, dashboard	No	Yes (for Looks and Explores), No (for dashboards)	5.6
Dropbox	Send and store a data file on Dropbox.	No README available	View documentation	None	Query, dashboard	Look, Explore, dashboard	Yes	No	6.8
Facebook Custom Audiences	Upload data to Facebook Ads Custom Audiences from Customer List.	View README on GitHub	See README	None	Query	Look, Explore	Yes	Yes	6.10
Firebase	Use Firebase to send push notifications to mobile.	No README available	No article available	None	Query	Look, Explore	No	No	22.4
Google Ads Customer Match	Upload data to Google Ads Customer Match.	View README on GitHub	View documentation	None	Query	Look, Explore	Yes	Yes	6.10
Google Analytics Data Import	Upload data to a Google Analytics dataset.	View README on GitHub	See README	None	Query	Look, Explore	Yes	Yes	6.10
Google Cloud Storage	Write data files to a Google Cloud Storage bucket.	View README on GitHub	View Community article	None	Query, dashboard	Look, Explore, dashboard	No	Yes (for Looks and Explores), No (for dashboards)	5.6
Google Drive	Send data to Google Drive.	No README available	View documentation	None	Query, dashboard	Look, Explore, dashboard	Yes	Yes (for Looks and Explores), No (for dashboards)	7.4
Google Sheets	Send CSV data to a Google Sheet.	No README available	View documentation	None	Query	Look, Explore	Yes	Yes	7.4
Hubspot Companies	Add properties to your Companies using the Hubspot V3 API.	View README on GitHub	See README	hubspot_company_id	Query	Look, Explore	No	Yes	5.6
Hubspot Contacts	Add properties to your Contacts using the Hubspot V3 API.	View README on GitHub	See README	hubspot_contact_id	Query	Look, Explore	No	Yes	5.6
Kloudio	Add data to a Google Sheet.	View README on GitHub	See README	None	Query	Look, Explore	No	No	5.6
mParticle	Bulk export your user or event data from Looker to mParticle.	View README on GitHub	See README	See README	Query	Look, Explore	No	Yes	5.6
Salesforce Campaigns	Add contacts or leads to Salesforce campaign.	View README on GitHub	See README	sfdc_contact_id or sfdc_lead_id	Query	Look, Explore	Yes	No	22.6
Segment Group	Add traits and/or users to your Segment groups.	View README on GitHub	View documentation	segment_group_id and user_id, or segment_group_id and segment_anonymous_id	Query	Look, Explore	No	Yes	4.20
Segment Identify	Add traits to your Segment users using Identify.	View README on GitHub	View documentation	email or user_id or segment_anonymous_id or segment_group_id	Query	Look, Explore	No	Yes	4.20
Segment Track	Connect to a number of integrations provided by Segment to identify and target users for marketing workflows.	View README on GitHub	View documentation	email or user_id or segment_anonymous_id or segment_group_id	Query	Look, Explore	No	Yes	4.20
SendGrid	Send data and schedule results to send to an email address using SendGrid's API.	View README on GitHub	View Community article	None	Query, dashboard	Look, Explore, dashboard	No	No	5.6
Slack	Send Looker content in direct messages, public channels, and private channels in Slack using OAuth. It is available for Looker-hosted deployments on Looker 6.24+ with theIP Allowlist feature disabled.	No README available	View documentation	None	Query, dashboard	Look, Explore, dashboard	Yes	Yes (for Looks and Explores), No (for dashboards)	6.24
Slack Attachment (API Token)	Send data directly into a Slack channel along with user credentials. You may also want to referenceLookerbot documentation for additional Slack functionality.	View README on GitHub	View documentation	None	Query, dashboard	Look, Explore, dashboard	No	No	5.6
Teams — Incoming Webhook	Send data to Microsoft Teams using an incoming webhook.	View README on GitHub	See README	None	Query, dashboard	Look, Explore, dashboard	No	No	5.6
Tray	Connect to a number of integrations provided by Tray.io to automate workflows.	View README on GitHub	View Community article	None	Query	Look, Explore	No	Yes	5.6
Twilio — Send Data	Send data from a Look or schedule results to send to a phone number using Twilio's API.	View README on GitHub	View Community article	None	Query	Look, Explore	No	No	5.6
Twilio — Send Message	Send a message to a series of phone numbers (data columns that are tagged as phone numbers) in a Look.	View README on GitHub	See README	phone	Field, query	Look, Explore	No	No	5.6
Zapier	Connect to a number of integrations that are provided by Zapier to automate workflows.	View README on GitHub	View Community article	None	Query	Look, Explore	No	Yes	5.6