Juicebox Webhooks & Events

Overview

Juicebox delivers webhook notifications for AI-powered people search and analysis workflows. Subscribe to events for completed analyses, updated datasets, ready exports, and quota warnings to build automated pipelines that react to Juicebox intelligence in real time without polling the API.

Webhook Registration

const response = await fetch("https://api.juicebox.ai/v1/webhooks", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "Authorization": `Bearer ${process.env.JUICEBOX_API_KEY}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    url: "https://yourapp.com/webhooks/juicebox",
    events: ["analysis.completed", "dataset.updated", "export.ready", "quota.warning"],
    secret: process.env.JUICEBOX_WEBHOOK_SECRET,
  }),
});

Signature Verification

import crypto from "crypto";
import { Request, Response, NextFunction } from "express";

function verifyJuiceboxSignature(req: Request, res: Response, next: NextFunction) {
  const signature = req.headers["x-juicebox-signature"] as string;
  const expected = crypto.createHmac("sha256", process.env.JUICEBOX_WEBHOOK_SECRET!)
    .update(req.body).digest("hex");
  if (!crypto.timingSafeEqual(Buffer.from(signature), Buffer.from(expected))) {
    return res.status(401).json({ error: "Invalid signature" });
  }
  next();
}

Event Handler

import express from "express";
const app = express();

app.post("/webhooks/juicebox", express.raw({ type: "application/json" }), verifyJuiceboxSignature, (req, res) => {
  const event = JSON.parse(req.body.toString());
  res.status(200).json({ received: true });

  switch (event.type) {
    case "analysis.completed":
      fetchResults(event.data.analysis_id, event.data.result_count); break;
    case "dataset.updated":
      refreshDashboard(event.data.dataset_id, event.data.records_added); break;
    case "export.ready":
      downloadExport(event.data.export_id, event.data.download_url); break;
    case "quota.warning":
      notifyAdmin(event.data.usage_percent, event.data.reset_date); break;
  }
});

Event Types

Event	Payload Fields	Use Case
analysis.completed	analysis_id, result_count, query	Fetch and process search results
dataset.updated	dataset_id, records_added, total_records	Refresh downstream dashboards
export.ready	export_id, download_url, format	Auto-download CSV/JSON exports
quota.warning	usage_percent, reset_date, plan_tier	Alert admin before limit hit
search.alert	alert_id, new_matches, criteria	Notify on new candidate matches

Retry & Idempotency

const processed = new Set<string>();

async function handleIdempotent(event: { id: string; type: string; data: any }) {
  if (processed.has(event.id)) return;
  await routeEvent(event);
  processed.add(event.id);
  if (processed.size > 10_000) {
    const entries = Array.from(processed);
    entries.slice(0, entries.length - 10_000).forEach((id) => processed.delete(id));
  }
}

Error Handling

Issue	Cause	Fix
Signature mismatch	Secret rotated without updating handler	Re-fetch secret from Juicebox dashboard
Empty result_count	Analysis timed out	Check analysis status before processing
Export link expired	Download URL has 1-hour TTL	Fetch immediately on export.ready event
Quota exceeded	API calls after limit hit	Implement backoff until reset_date

Resources

• Juicebox API Docs

Next Steps

See juicebox-security-basics.