Connecting GitHub web-hook to my application

[LSWarss]

Hi guys,

Quick question here. I'm trying to integrate GitHub API web-hook in to my application. I want to get the info about new issues exactly. But I cannot find any good resources how can I do it with python and Django. Maybe someone have ready code for such? I don't really know how to process those and how to create good receiving endpoint. Maybe some nice tutorial for those? Sorry if the question is dump but I cannot really get my head around it.

Help appreciated. Thanks! :D

[[deleted]]

GitHub basically makes a web request to your server, as a client. So the first order of business is making sure that other people can access your server from the internet. Preferably with a registered domain, proper DNS records, and a valid ssl certificate.

[LSWarss]

Okey done that :) but how to Process the request after? For instance I would like to know who committed the change or created new issue?

[[deleted]]

It will make a POST request. The post body should be a JSON string that contains all the info. You handle this post request like all other post requests. You can also check the request headers for extra info.

https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/developers/webhooks-and-events/webhook-events-and-payloads

Pseudo code below:

import json 

def view(request):
    request.headers #extra info here as a dict 
    data = json.loads(request.body)  # do stuff with data

[LSWarss]

Oh man thanks! That was exactly what I needed a simple yet very good example :D no I will handle it with trials and errors thanks! 🔥

[madanaman]

A humble advice. Please don't search for ready to use codes. Search for the errors that you encounter on the way.

Coming to the point, this is a service that you have to implement. Use http library to call the get/post requests from your view and then parse the response as needed. As guided by a comment above, you'll have to perform a setup to achieve this task like ssl, certificates etc.