One feature of web hooks is that they’re somewhat self documenting. With web APIs you need to know what you’re requesting and how to request it, but with web hooks, you’re just handed the data. Some of it might need explanation, but you can get started pretty quickly by just capturing actual data and seeing what it gives you. When I first started playing with web hooks, I wrote a handler script that would email me the data. This worked okay, but it could easily be better.
So today I’ve released PostBin, a tool for capturing and inspecting data from web hooks. It’s sort like of a cross between pastebin and Mailinator, but for HTTP POST requests. It’s very straightforward and simple. No signups, no configuration. Just click a button, get a bin with a unique URL, capture POST requests with that URL, then view those requests and the data in them at that URL.
The source is available and patches are welcome. If you have useful source changes to push back to me, they’ll likely be deployed to the production app running on Google App Engine. If you just have suggestions, you can leave them on our UserVoice page.
Hope you guys find this useful!
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Hey this is awesome! I’m just delving a bit deeper into WebHooks and this will be an invaluable tool! Thanks a lot!