Custom Make.com integration that handles Sync/Async usage

[emmaly]

Because it's not really that trivial to make a polling function within a Make scenario, I've made a custom Make integration (aka Custom App) that allows the user to perform the run-ffmpeg-command call synchronously. Effectively what it does is poll the commands endpoint once per second within the module, so it only returns back to the scenario when either it has completed or if there was an error, rather than simply returning a command_id and having the user deal with it themselves.

If you would like to take ownership of that, let me know who to send this information to.

[emmaly]

The command looks like this in Make:

It's more user friendly in my opinion as the user doesn't need to supply in_# and out_# variables themselves, and it handles the unfortunate Make handling of {{ }} by allowing the user to supply the variables in the string as { } instead, and it converts it properly.

The output looks like this:

The output is automatically converting the out_# keys in output_files back to an array, so the user can iterate over it naturally with a Make array iterator module.

[peternaf]

Hi Emmaly,

Nice stuff!
We would happily add this to our official make.com integration - continuing discussion in email

[yuval-yakubov-rendi]

Hi Emmaly,

Great news, the "Run FFmpeg And Poll" module is now live!

Thank you so much for the suggestion and for providing the initial code. It was a huge help in getting this across the finish line. We’d love to hear your thoughts now that it’s out in the wild!

[emmaly]

This module doesn't seem to support dynamic input/output files like zip or playlist files (use of input_compressed_folder key) or an output ZIP with output_files:"OUTPUT_FOLDER".

It could really use some help values for the Run FFmpeg And Poll module's properties. For example, in the two fields in this screenshot below, it should have the default value described in the help not in the label of the fields. The labels should be very brief and should not contain instructions.

It's doing the polling correctly as far as I can tell, which is a huge improvement!

[yuval-yakubov-rendi]

You’re absolutely right. This module doesn't currently support dynamic input/output files, but we are working on adding support for that in the future.

Thanks for your feedback about the help values, I’ll definitely give those a second look!