Is there a way to trigger an Action other than clicking a button in Flowdash?

Let’s say you create an action for “Approve Request”, and that action verifies a handful of things and sends an email.

Now, you want to have some script that auto-approves certain requests. Ideally, it would trigger the “Approve Request” action via API, and take advantage of the verification/email logic. But it doesn’t seem like that’s supported. Am I missing some functionality, or thinking of this wrong?