clay-sdk-patterns

name	clay-sdk-patterns
description	Apply production-ready patterns for integrating with Clay via webhooks and HTTP API. Use when building Clay integrations, implementing webhook handlers, or establishing team coding standards for Clay data pipelines. Trigger with phrases like "clay SDK patterns", "clay best practices", "clay code patterns", "clay integration patterns", "clay webhook patterns".
allowed-tools	Read, Write, Edit, Bash(npm:*), Bash(node:*)
version	1.14.0
license	MIT
author	Jeremy Longshore <[e-mail]>
tags	["saas","clay","python","typescript"]
compatibility	Designed for Claude Code, also compatible with Codex and OpenClaw

Clay Integration Patterns

Overview

Production-ready patterns for Clay integrations. Clay does not have an official SDK -- you interact via webhooks (inbound), HTTP API enrichment columns (outbound from Clay), and the Enterprise API (programmatic lookups). These patterns wrap those interfaces into reliable, reusable code.

Prerequisites

• Completed clay-install-auth setup
• Familiarity with async/await patterns
• Understanding of Clay's webhook and HTTP API model

Instructions

Step 1: Create a Clay Webhook Client (TypeScript)

// src/clay/client.ts — typed wrapper for Clay webhook and Enterprise API
interface ClayConfig {
  webhookUrl: string;         // Table's webhook URL for inbound data
  enterpriseApiKey?: string;  // Enterprise API key (optional)
  baseUrl?: string;           // Default: https://api.clay.com
  maxRetries?: number;
  timeoutMs?: number;
}

class ClayClient {
  private config: Required<ClayConfig>;

  constructor(config: ClayConfig) {
    this.config = {
      baseUrl: 'https://api.clay.com',
      maxRetries: 3,
      timeoutMs: 30_000,
      enterpriseApiKey: '',
      ...config,
    };
  }

  /** Send a record to a Clay table via webhook */
   (: <, >): <> {
     res =  .(.., {
      : ,
      : { :  },
      : .(data),
    });
     (!res.) {
        (, res.);
    }
  }

  
   (: <, >[], delayMs = ): <> {
     :  = { : , : , : [] };
     ( row  rows) {
       {
         .(row);
        results.++;
      }  (err) {
        results.++;
        results..({ row, : (err  ). });
      }
       (delayMs > )   ( (r, delayMs));
    }
     results;
  }

  
   (: ): <> {
     (!..) {
        ();
    }
     res =  .(, {
      : ,
      : {
        : ,
        : ,
      },
      : .({ email }),
    });
     res.();
  }

  
   (: ): <> {
     (!..) {
        ();
    }
     res =  .(, {
      : ,
      : {
        : ,
        : ,
      },
      : .({ domain }),
    });
     res.();
  }

    (: , : ): <> {
     ( attempt = ; attempt <= ..; attempt++) {
       {
         controller =  ();
         timeout = ( controller.(), ..);
         res =  (url, { ...init, : controller. });
        (timeout);

         (res. === ) {
           retryAfter = (res..() || );
            ( (r, retryAfter * ));
          ;
        }
         res;
      }  (err) {
         (attempt === ..)  err;
          ( (r,  * .(, attempt)));
      }
    }
      ();
  }
}