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Create a Drift Contact

Create a contact in Drift using an email address.

Setup

In Open Flow create a secret Variable named DRIFT_ACCESS_TOKEN containing a Drift access token with contact write permission. Bind it to Create Drift contact, then run with the contact email. In n8n configure Drift credentials and enter an email in the Drift node. Run one format.

Behavior

A manual run creates one Drift contact. Open Flow returns the complete API response; n8n returns its data object. Drift rejects a duplicate email when no external ID is supplied. A failed or uncertain request may already have created a contact; check Drift before retrying.

Inspiration & credits

Changes to the source

Open Flow uses Drift’s contact API directly and accepts the email as a run input.

Adapted from Create a contact in Drift in Zie619/n8n-workflows. The source export does not identify a separate template author or license.

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