[Feature Request] Webhooks for reactions on pull request review comments

[davidkwlam]

Our GitHub app listens for webhooks on pull request review comment activity (created, updated, deleted) to avoid polling the pull request API.

We'd like to receive similar webhooks for comment reactions to avoid polling the reactions API. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like a webhook exists for when someone adds a reaction.

Just off the top of my head, either one of these would work:

1. A new webhook event type for pull request review comment reactions
2. Send the existing pull_request_review_comment event when a reaction is added to or removed from a comment

Adding this would reduce the load on the API and I think many other developers would find it useful (here's a similar thread for issue comments).

Thanks!

[elviskahoro]

Huge +1. Articulation for why this is important: People add reactions to issues as a way of expressing interest. To my knowledge there isn't a way to query the list of people who've subscribed to an issue and so instead we ask folks to add an emoji. This is better than asking them to comment because for issues with a large amount of interest, when people comment: "+1" it spams the inboxes of those currently subscribed.

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[elviskahoro]

One other aspect of this is people often upvote an issue because they're interested in it. Up voting however doesn't automatically subscribe them to the issue and so if we were to later comment and close the issue they wouldn't know it's been fixed or closed unless they explicitly subscribed in addition to upvoting.

[chngl]

+1, are there any plans for the github team to build this out? Thanks.

[waltergalvao]

+1

[whoamitty]

+1 Me too I need it badly
for manage project
and automate move issue on Done
according to reactions

[SanjaySaatyaki]

+1 I too need this since i have automatic messages generated via Bots. To know whether those are really useful or not

[TrongBYM]

+1, we need this feature as well as we want to automate surveys and polls in our GitHub pull requests!