Connect your app to Ashby

Connect Ashby to your Lovable app to work with jobs, candidates, applications, and hiring workflows through the Ashby API and Lovable’s connector gateway.

Ashby is an applicant tracking and recruiting operations platform. The Ashby app connector lets your Lovable app call the Ashby HTTP API through Lovable’s connector gateway using an API key, so secrets are not hard-coded in your repository.

With Ashby connected, your app can:

• List and manage job postings and openings
• Search and view candidates and applications
• Create and update candidates and applications programmatically (within API and permission limits)
• Work with interview and pipeline data where exposed by the API

Ashby is a strong fit when recruiting is centralized in Ashby and you want internal or candidate-facing tools that stay in sync with your ATS.

Common use cases and example apps

Example app	Example prompt	Description
Open roles page	Build a careers page that lists live Ashby jobs with title, location, and apply link.	Public job board driven by Ashby as the source of truth.
Referral form	When an employee submits a referral, create or update a candidate in Ashby with their note.	Internal referrals flow into the ATS without manual retyping.
Recruiter console	Build a small app that searches candidates by email and shows their current stage.	Fast lookup for coordinators and recruiters.
Interview prep	For a given application ID, show upcoming interviews from Ashby.	Scheduling context in one place for hiring managers.
Pipeline snapshot	Show counts of applications by stage for our flagship role.	Lightweight analytics on top of Ashby data.

How Ashby connections work

• API key: You create an API key in Ashby and paste it into Lovable as API key. The gateway attaches it to outbound requests; it is not exposed in client-side bundles as plain project text.
• Gateway: Traffic goes through Lovable’s connector gateway. See Gateway-based connectors for token handling and per-project request limits.

Ashby subscription limits, API quotas, and feature availability are governed by Ashby, not Lovable.

How to connect Ashby

Workspace admins and owners can connect Ashby.

When a connection is created, link it to the projects that should use Ashby.

Prerequisites

• An Ashby account with permission to create API keys
• Lovable workspace admin or owner role

Step 1: Create an Ashby API key

1. Sign in to Ashby and open Admin (or your organization’s settings area for integrations).
2. Go to API keys and create a key with the minimum scopes your app needs.

Ashby’s UI entry point: API keys. For request shapes and endpoints, use Ashby API reference.

Step 2: Connect Ashby in Lovable

1. Open Connectors → App connectors and select Ashby.
2. Click Add connection.
3. Enter a Display name (for example Ashby Production).
4. Paste the API key.
5. Click Create / Save. Lovable verifies the key against Ashby.

Limitations

• The connector represents one Ashby workspace API key per connection—not each candidate’s or employee’s personal Ashby login.
• Field-level and workflow rules inside Ashby still apply; the API cannot bypass Ashby permissions you have not granted to the key.
• Gateway limits apply as described in Gateway-based connectors.

How to unlink projects from a connection

Editors and above can remove specific projects from a connection without deleting the connection entirely. The connection will remain available for other projects.

To unlink projects:

1. Open Connectors

   Open Connectors, then go to App connectors, and select .

2. Open the connection

   Open the connection you want to manage.

3. Select projects

   Under Linked projects, check the projects you want to unlink.

4. Confirm

   Click Unlink projects and confirm.

When unlinked, those projects will no longer have access to through this connection. If a project needs again, you can link it to any available connection.

How to delete a connection

Workspace admins and owners can delete connections.

Deleting a connection is permanent and cannot be undone. It will remove the credentials from all linked projects, and any apps using this connection will stop working until a new connection is added.

Before deleting, review the Linked projects section to see which projects are currently using the connection.

To delete a connection:

1. Open Connectors

   Open Connectors, then go to App connectors, and select .

2. Open the connection

   Open the connection you want to remove.

3. Review linked projects

   Review the Linked projects section.

4. Delete

   Under Delete this connection, click Delete and confirm.