Rippling

Overview

The Rippling connector reads workers and their employment status from the Rippling REST API on a schedule. Changes become typed events with the worker, manager, department and dates attached, and each one appears in the trace of the run it started.

Teams use it to create Okta and Google Workspace accounts a week before a start date, to order equipment through Jamf, and to remove access the evening a termination takes effect.

Supported objects

• Workers, including employment type, status and start and end dates

• Departments, teams and work locations

• Managers, read as a chain up to the top of the org

How polling works

Every five minutes Tessel lists workers updated since its last cursor and compares each record with the version it saw before. A changed status, date or department becomes the matching event. Date triggers such as start date reached fire once, at the time zone of the worker's work location.

GET https://rest.ripplingapis.com/workers
  ?filter=updated_at gt '2026-10-06T08:55:00Z'
  &expand=department,manager
  &order_by=updated_at
Authorization: Bearer <api token

GET https://rest.ripplingapis.com/workers
  ?filter=updated_at gt '2026-10-06T08:55:00Z'
  &expand=department,manager
  &order_by=updated_at
Authorization: Bearer <api token

GET https://rest.ripplingapis.com/workers
  ?filter=updated_at gt '2026-10-06T08:55:00Z'
  &expand=department,manager
  &order_by=updated_at
Authorization: Bearer <api token

Rate limits

Rippling limits requests per token. Tessel pages through results, waits when it sees a 429 and resumes from the same cursor, so a busy hiring week never drops a change. Each poll is shown in the trace with its cursor and page count.

Permissions needed

Create an API token in Rippling with read-only scopes. Tessel does not write to Rippling, so no write scopes are needed. Fields your token cannot see are left out of the event schema.

• workers.read for worker records and employment status

• departments.read for departments and teams

• users.read for work email and manager links