GitHub has a full featured webhook system that’s able to notify you of a wide variety of events. IRC Hooky supports the following subset:
This page will walk you through setting up webhooks on a GitHub repository and getting related notifications in IRC.
To start off with, if you haven’t already done so, create a /github
endpoint in your API Gateway instance following the deployment instructions.
Your API Gateway webhook URL should look something like:
https://xxxxxxx.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/prod/github
To bring up the webhooks settings page, navigate over to:
https://github.com/<USERNAME>/<REPOSITORY>/settings/hooks/new
And fill in the following fields:
| Payload URL | https://xxxxxxx.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/prod/github |
| Content Type | application/json |
| Secret | blank |
| Which events | Send me everything |
| Active | checkmark |
Click the green Add webhook button and you’re done!