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The webhooks API allows you to create and manage webhooks for your repositories.


If you would like to set up a single webhook to receive events from all of your organization's repositories, see our API documentation for Organization Webhooks.

In addition to the REST API, GitHub can also serve as a PubSubHubbub hub for repositories.

Receiving Webhooks

In order for GitHub Enterprise Cloud to send webhook payloads, your server needs to be accessible from the Internet. We also highly suggest using SSL so that we can send encrypted payloads over HTTPS.

Webhook headers

GitHub Enterprise Cloud will send along several HTTP headers to differentiate between event types and payload identifiers. See webhook headers for details.


GitHub can also serve as a PubSubHubbub hub for all repositories. PSHB is a simple publish/subscribe protocol that lets servers register to receive updates when a topic is updated. The updates are sent with an HTTP POST request to a callback URL. Topic URLs for a GitHub repository's pushes are in this format:{owner}/{repo}/events/{event}

The event can be any available webhook event. For more information, see "Webhook events and payloads."

Response format

The default format is what existing post-receive hooks should expect: A JSON body sent as the payload parameter in a POST. You can also specify to receive the raw JSON body with either an Accept header, or a .json extension.

Accept: application/json{owner}/{repo}/events/push.json

Callback URLs

Callback URLs can use the http:// protocol.

# Send updates to


The GitHub PubSubHubbub endpoint is: A successful request with curl looks like:

curl -u "user" -i \ \
  -F "hub.mode=subscribe" \
  -F "hub.topic={owner}/{repo}/events/push" \
  -F "hub.callback="

PubSubHubbub requests can be sent multiple times. If the hook already exists, it will be modified according to the request.


hub.modestringRequired. Either subscribe or unsubscribe.
hub.topicstringRequired. The URI of the GitHub repository to subscribe to. The path must be in the format of /{owner}/{repo}/events/{event}.
hub.callbackstringThe URI to receive the updates to the topic.
hub.secretstringA shared secret key that generates a hash signature of the outgoing body content. You can verify a push came from GitHub by comparing the raw request body with the contents of the X-Hub-Signature or X-Hub-Signature-256 headers. You can see the PubSubHubbub documentation for more details.