machine-readable, always up-to-date GitHub Webhooks specifications
Download the latest specification at octokit.github.io/webhooks/index.json
Example webhook definition
{
"name": "issues",
"actions": [
"opened",
"edited",
"deleted",
"transferred",
"closed",
"reopened",
"assigned",
"unassigned",
"labeled",
"unlabeled",
"milestoned",
"demilestoned"
],
"examples": [
{
"action": "edited",
"issue": {
"url": "https://api.github.com/repos/Codertocat/Hello-World/issues/2",
"repository_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/Codertocat/Hello-World",
"labels_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/Codertocat/Hello-World/issues/2/labels{/name}",
"comments_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/Codertocat/Hello-World/issues/2/comments",
"events_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/Codertocat/Hello-World/issues/2/events",
"html_url": "https://github.com/Codertocat/Hello-World/issues/2",
"id": 327883527,
"node_id": "MDU6SXNzdWUzMjc4ODM1Mjc=",
"number": 2,
"title": "Spelling error in the README file",
"user": {
"login": "Codertocat",
"id": 21031067,
"node_id": "MDQ6VXNlcjIxMDMxMDY3",
"avatar_url": "https://avatars1.githubusercontent.com/u/21031067?v=4",
"gravatar_id": "",
"url": "https://api.github.com/users/Codertocat",
"html_url": "https://github.com/Codertocat",
"followers_url": "https://api.github.com/users/Codertocat/followers",
"following_url": "https://api.github.com/users/Codertocat/following{/other_user}",
"gists_url": "https://api.github.com/users/Codertocat/gists{/gist_id}",
"starred_url": "https://api.github.com/users/Codertocat/starred{/owner}{/repo}",
"subscriptions_url": "https://api.github.com/users/Codertocat/subscriptions",
"organizations_url": "https://api.github.com/users/Codertocat/orgs",
"repos_url": "https://api.github.com/users/Codertocat/repos",
"events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/Codertocat/events{/privacy}",
"received_events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/Codertocat/received_events",
"type": "User",
"site_admin": false
},
"labels": [
{
"id": 949737505,
"node_id": "MDU6TGFiZWw5NDk3Mzc1MDU=",
"url": "https://api.github.com/repos/Codertocat/Hello-World/labels/bug",
"name": "bug",
"color": "d73a4a",
"default": true
}
],
"state": "open",
"locked": false,
"assignee": null,
"assignees": [
{
"login": "Codertocat",
"id": 21031067,
"node_id": "MDQ6VXNlcjIxMDMxMDY3",
"avatar_url": "https://avatars1.githubusercontent.com/u/21031067?v=4",
"gravatar_id": "",
"url": "https://api.github.com/users/Codertocat",
"html_url": "https://github.com/Codertocat",
"followers_url": "https://api.github.com/users/Codertocat/followers",
"following_url": "https://api.github.com/users/Codertocat/following{/other_user}",
"gists_url": "https://api.github.com/users/Codertocat/gists{/gist_id}",
"starred_url": "https://api.github.com/users/Codertocat/starred{/owner}{/repo}",
"subscriptions_url": "https://api.github.com/users/Codertocat/subscriptions",
"organizations_url": "https://api.github.com/users/Codertocat/orgs",
"repos_url": "https://api.github.com/users/Codertocat/repos",
"events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/Codertocat/events{/privacy}",
"received_events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/Codertocat/received_events",
"type": "User",
"site_admin": false
}
],
"milestone": null,
"comments": 0,
"created_at": "2018-05-30T20:18:32Z",
"updated_at": "2018-05-30T20:18:32Z",
"closed_at": null,
"author_association": "OWNER",
"body": "It looks like you accidently spelled 'commit' with two 't's."
},
"changes": {},
"repository": {
"id": 135493233,
"node_id": "MDEwOlJlcG9zaXRvcnkxMzU0OTMyMzM=",
"name": "Hello-World",
"full_name": "Codertocat/Hello-World",
"owner": {
"login": "Codertocat",
"id": 21031067,
"node_id": "MDQ6VXNlcjIxMDMxMDY3",
"avatar_url": "https://avatars1.githubusercontent.com/u/21031067?v=4",
"gravatar_id": "",
"url": "https://api.github.com/users/Codertocat",
"html_url": "https://github.com/Codertocat",
"followers_url": "https://api.github.com/users/Codertocat/followers",
"following_url": "https://api.github.com/users/Codertocat/following{/other_user}",
"gists_url": "https://api.github.com/users/Codertocat/gists{/gist_id}",
"starred_url": "https://api.github.com/users/Codertocat/starred{/owner}{/repo}",
"subscriptions_url": "https://api.github.com/users/Codertocat/subscriptions",
"organizations_url": "https://api.github.com/users/Codertocat/orgs",
"repos_url": "https://api.github.com/users/Codertocat/repos",
"events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/Codertocat/events{/privacy}",
"received_events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/Codertocat/received_events",
"type": "User",
"site_admin": false
},
"private": false,
"html_url": "https://github.com/Codertocat/Hello-World",
"description": null,
"fork": false,
"url": "https://api.github.com/repos/Codertocat/Hello-World",
"forks_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/Codertocat/Hello-World/forks",
"keys_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/Codertocat/Hello-World/keys{/key_id}",
"collaborators_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/Codertocat/Hello-World/collaborators{/collaborator}",
"teams_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/Codertocat/Hello-World/teams",
"hooks_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/Codertocat/Hello-World/hooks",
"issue_events_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/Codertocat/Hello-World/issues/events{/number}",
"events_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/Codertocat/Hello-World/events",
"assignees_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/Codertocat/Hello-World/assignees{/user}",
"branches_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/Codertocat/Hello-World/branches{/branch}",
"tags_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/Codertocat/Hello-World/tags",
"blobs_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/Codertocat/Hello-World/git/blobs{/sha}",
"git_tags_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/Codertocat/Hello-World/git/tags{/sha}",
"git_refs_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/Codertocat/Hello-World/git/refs{/sha}",
"trees_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/Codertocat/Hello-World/git/trees{/sha}",
"statuses_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/Codertocat/Hello-World/statuses/{sha}",
"languages_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/Codertocat/Hello-World/languages",
"stargazers_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/Codertocat/Hello-World/stargazers",
"contributors_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/Codertocat/Hello-World/contributors",
"subscribers_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/Codertocat/Hello-World/subscribers",
"subscription_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/Codertocat/Hello-World/subscription",
"commits_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/Codertocat/Hello-World/commits{/sha}",
"git_commits_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/Codertocat/Hello-World/git/commits{/sha}",
"comments_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/Codertocat/Hello-World/comments{/number}",
"issue_comment_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/Codertocat/Hello-World/issues/comments{/number}",
"contents_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/Codertocat/Hello-World/contents/{+path}",
"compare_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/Codertocat/Hello-World/compare/{base}...{head}",
"merges_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/Codertocat/Hello-World/merges",
"archive_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/Codertocat/Hello-World/{archive_format}{/ref}",
"downloads_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/Codertocat/Hello-World/downloads",
"issues_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/Codertocat/Hello-World/issues{/number}",
"pulls_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/Codertocat/Hello-World/pulls{/number}",
"milestones_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/Codertocat/Hello-World/milestones{/number}",
"notifications_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/Codertocat/Hello-World/notifications{?since,all,participating}",
"labels_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/Codertocat/Hello-World/labels{/name}",
"releases_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/Codertocat/Hello-World/releases{/id}",
"deployments_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/Codertocat/Hello-World/deployments",
"created_at": "2018-05-30T20:18:04Z",
"updated_at": "2018-05-30T20:18:10Z",
"pushed_at": "2018-05-30T20:18:30Z",
"git_url": "git://github.com/Codertocat/Hello-World.git",
"ssh_url": "git@github.com:Codertocat/Hello-World.git",
"clone_url": "https://github.com/Codertocat/Hello-World.git",
"svn_url": "https://github.com/Codertocat/Hello-World",
"homepage": null,
"size": 0,
"stargazers_count": 0,
"watchers_count": 0,
"language": null,
"has_issues": true,
"has_projects": true,
"has_downloads": true,
"has_wiki": true,
"has_pages": true,
"forks_count": 0,
"mirror_url": null,
"archived": false,
"open_issues_count": 2,
"license": null,
"forks": 0,
"open_issues": 2,
"watchers": 0,
"default_branch": "master"
},
"sender": {
"login": "Codertocat",
"id": 21031067,
"node_id": "MDQ6VXNlcjIxMDMxMDY3",
"avatar_url": "https://avatars1.githubusercontent.com/u/21031067?v=4",
"gravatar_id": "",
"url": "https://api.github.com/users/Codertocat",
"html_url": "https://github.com/Codertocat",
"followers_url": "https://api.github.com/users/Codertocat/followers",
"following_url": "https://api.github.com/users/Codertocat/following{/other_user}",
"gists_url": "https://api.github.com/users/Codertocat/gists{/gist_id}",
"starred_url": "https://api.github.com/users/Codertocat/starred{/owner}{/repo}",
"subscriptions_url": "https://api.github.com/users/Codertocat/subscriptions",
"organizations_url": "https://api.github.com/users/Codertocat/orgs",
"repos_url": "https://api.github.com/users/Codertocat/repos",
"events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/Codertocat/events{/privacy}",
"received_events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/Codertocat/received_events",
"type": "User",
"site_admin": false
}
}
]
}You can download the latest index.json and schema.json files from
unpkg
To get an array of all webhook definition objects, require the index.json file
// Use Node.js require:
const WEBHOOKS = require("@octokit/webhooks-definitions/index.json");
// Or ESM/TypeScript import:
import WEBHOOKS from "@octokit/webhooks-definitions/index.json";To get the JSON schema for webhook payloads, require the schema.json file
// Use Node.js require:
const SCHEMA = require("@octokit/webhooks-definitions/schema.json");
// Or ESM/TypeScript import:
import SCHEMA from "@octokit/webhooks-definitions/schema.json";This package ships with types for the webhook events generated from the respective json schemas, which you can use like so:
import {
WebhookEvent,
IssuesOpenedEvent,
} from "@octokit/webhooks-definitions/schema";
const handleWebhookEvent = (event: WebhookEvent) => {
if ("action" in event && event.action === "completed") {
console.log(`${event.sender.login} completed something!`);
}
};
const handleIssuesOpenedEvent = (event: IssuesOpenedEvent) => {
console.log(
`${event.sender.login} opened "${event.issue.title}" on ${event.repository.full_name}`
);
};This package updates itself using a daily cronjob running on GitHub Actions. The
index.json file is generated by
bin/octokit-webhooks.ts. Run
npm run octokit-webhooks -- --usage for instructions. After the update is
complete, run npm run build:webhooks and npm run build:schema to update
index.json and schema.json files.
The update script is scraping GitHub’s Webhooks Event Types & Payloads documentation page and extracts the meta information using cheerio.
For simpler local testing and tracking of changes all loaded pages are cached in
the cache/ folder.
- octokit/graphql-schema – GitHub’s GraphQL Schema with validation
- octokit/openapi – GitHub REST API route specifications
- octokit/app-permissions – GitHub App permission specifications