hookserve's Introduction

HookServe

http://godoc.org/github.com/chappjc/hookserve/hookserve

HookServe is a small golang utility for receiving github webhooks, originally by phayes. It's easy to use, flexible, and provides strong security though GitHub's HMAC webhook verification scheme.

server := hookserve.NewServer()
server.Port = 8888
server.Secret = "supersecretcode"
server.GoListenAndServe()

// Every time the server receives a webhook event, print the results
for event := range server.Events {
    fmt.Println(event.Owner + " " + event.Repo + " " + event.Branch + " " + event.Commit)
}

Command Line Utility

It also comes with a command-line utility that lets you pass webhook push events to other commands.

hookserve --port=8888 logger -t PushEvent #log github webhook push event to the system log (/var/log/message) via the logger command

Example output in response to a push event:

web hook received: event type push on chappjc/webfiles, branch master, [90b7cc2e3]
Launching command: /home/ubuntu/go/src/github.com/chappjc/webfiles/cmd/webfiles/relaunch.sh

Building From Source

First install Go, then:

go get -u github.com/chappjc/hookserve/util/hookserve

GitHub Webhooks

Setting up webhooks on GitHub is easy. Navigate to github.com/<name>/<repo>/settings/hooks and create a new webhook. Be sure to use application/json as the content type, and don't forget the /postreceive part of the Payload URL. Setting up your webhook should look something like this:

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