How do I receive Github Webhooks in Python

Question

Github offers to send Post-receive hooks to an URL of your choice when there\'s activity on your repo. I want to write a small Python command-line/backgroun

Answer 1

If you are using Flask, here's a very minimal code to listen for webhooks:

from flask import Flask, request, Response

app = Flask(__name__)

@app.route('/webhook', methods=['POST'])
def respond():
    print(request.json) # Handle webhook request here
    return Response(status=200)

And the same example using Django:

from django.http import HttpResponse
from django.views.decorators.http import require_POST

@require_POST
def example(request):
    print(request.json) # Handle webhook request here
    return HttpResponse('Hello, world. This is the webhook response.')

If you need more information, here's a great tutorial on how to listen for webhooks with Python.