OpenWebhook

Openwebhook.io is an open source project for developpers working with webhooks.

WebhookStore

"Is the tunnel still up ?" "Did the third party send the webhook ?" "Where do I update the webhook url on this beautiful developer portal ?"

WebhookStore is a solution to debug webhooks on localhost.

Some handy features:

• Permanent URLs: there are no generated urls, only user defined urls
• Available: Webhook store is not a tunnel, you don't have to run anything on your computer for the webhooks to be received
• Persistent: Webhooks are stored, and forwarded on localhost on demand. Meaning you can reuse a webhook from a dev session to another, instead of spending 2 minutes triggering the update webhook you need.

	Ngrok / Ultra hook	RequestBIn	WebhookStore
Permanent Url	Upon Inscription	Upon Inscription	Yes
Availability	When tunnel is Up	All the time	All the time
Persistency	During tunnel session	All the time	All the time
Debug on localhost	With the cli	Not possible	With the cli
Inspect webhooks	Yes	Yes	Yes
Authentication	Yes	Yes	Yes

The project is inspired from Yopmail: a Disposable Email Address - Temporary and anonymous inbox.

How to use it

Way 1:

• Choose a webhook store url matching *.webhook.store: like ilovewebhooks.webhook.store.
• Use it as a webhook address ilovewebhooks.webhook.store/send/me-the-webhook, or send a POST request with a curl
• Visit the store website ilovewebhooks.webhook.store and see your webhook
• Send that webhook to your localhost by clicking on "Send" (and running the local proxy server)
• All new webhooks will be forwarded to your localhost automatically

Way 2:

• run npx webhook-store-cli --port 9000 and it will prompt you a webhook store based on your username.

Debugging on localhost

npx webhook-store-cli --port 9000

Here is a video of the proxy server receiving the webhooks.

sequenceDiagram
    Third party API->>OpenWebhook Store: Sends webhook
    OpenWebhook Store->>OpenWebhook Client (browser): Sends stored webhook
    OpenWebhook Client (browser)->>Localhost: Replays webhook

Deployment

Documentation for self hosted webhook store.

Development

Install dependencies

$ yarn

Create DB and set env

Using postgresql

createdb webhook-store

Add env file and configure DATABASE_URL:

cp .env.test .env

Configure DATABASE_URL, replace USER.

DATABASE_URL="postgresql://USER[:PASSWORD]@localhost:5432/webhook-store?schema=public"

Run migrations

yarn prisma migrate dev

Start server

yarn start:dev

Configuration

Hosts

Webhook-store is designed to work for multiple hosts. For instance all *.webhook.store requests go to the same infrastructure. The webhook-store will associate all the webhooks to a host making it easy to gather all the webhooks for an host. You can have the same infrastructure for all your team and envs. If you use *.sandbox.org.com, then your dev team-a can work on team-a.sandbox.org.com and another team on team-b.sandbox.org.com without the need to configure or manage multiple webhook-stores.

Targets

Webhook-store is designed as a proxy, all the incoming webhooks can be sent to targets. For instance you want a third party to send webhooks to all your sandbox environments:

payment-sandbox-webhooks => staging.org.com payment-sandbox-webhooks => sandbox.org.com payment-sandbox-webhooks => sandbox-2.org.com

Env

# Configuration
MAX_STORED_WEBHOOKS_PER_HOST=100                            # Will keep only 100 webhooks (per hosts)
DEFAULT_TARGETS=production.org.com, preproduction.org.com   # Will send all the webhooks to these urls

Using docker

Edit the docker.env

docker run --env-file ./docker.env -p 9000:9000 openwebhook/webhook-store:latest