Webhook¶
Creating and Listening to Webhooks with PyGithub and Pyramid¶
To receive a continuous stream of events, one can set up a wsgiref app using Pyramid to handle incoming POST requests.
The below code sets up a listener which creates and utilizes a webhook. Using ‘pull_request’ and ‘push’ for the EVENT attributes, any time a PR is opened, closed, merged, or synced, or a commit is pushed, Github sends a POST containing a payload with information about the PR/push and its state.
The below example was drawn largely from Github’s Examples on working with Webhooks. A list of all applicable event types for Webhooks can be found in Github’s documentation
from wsgiref.simple_server import make_server
from pyramid.config import Configurator
from pyramid.view import view_config, view_defaults
from pyramid.response import Response
from github import Github
ENDPOINT = "webhook"
@view_defaults(
route_name=ENDPOINT, renderer="json", request_method="POST"
)
class PayloadView(object):
"""
View receiving of Github payload. By default, this view it's fired only if
the request is json and method POST.
"""
def __init__(self, request):
self.request = request
# Payload from Github, it's a dict
self.payload = self.request.json
@view_config(header="X-Github-Event:push")
def payload_push(self):
"""This method is a continuation of PayloadView process, triggered if
header HTTP-X-Github-Event type is Push"""
print("No. commits in push:", len(self.payload['commits']))
return Response("success")
@view_config(header="X-Github-Event:pull_request")
def payload_pull_request(self):
"""This method is a continuation of PayloadView process, triggered if
header HTTP-X-Github-Event type is Pull Request"""
print("PR", self.payload['action'])
print("No. Commits in PR:", self.payload['pull_request']['commits'])
return Response("success")
@view_config(header="X-Github-Event:ping")
def payload_else(self):
print("Pinged! Webhook created with id {}!".format(self.payload["hook"]["id"]))
return {"status": 200}
def create_webhook():
""" Creates a webhook for the specified repository.
This is a programmatic approach to creating webhooks with PyGithub's API. If you wish, this can be done
manually at your repository's page on Github in the "Settings" section. There is a option there to work with
and configure Webhooks.
"""
USERNAME = ""
PASSWORD = ""
OWNER = ""
REPO_NAME = ""
EVENTS = ["push", "pull_request"]
HOST = ""
config = {
"url": "http://{host}/{endpoint}".format(host=HOST, endpoint=ENDPOINT),
"content_type": "json"
}
g = Github(USERNAME, PASSWORD)
repo = g.get_repo("{owner}/{repo_name}".format(owner=OWNER, repo_name=REPO_NAME))
repo.create_hook("web", config, EVENTS, active=True)
if __name__ == "__main__":
config = Configurator()
create_webhook()
config.add_route(ENDPOINT, "/{}".format(ENDPOINT))
config.scan()
app = config.make_wsgi_app()
server = make_server("0.0.0.0", 80, app)
server.serve_forever()
Outputs from a server configured as above:
x.y.w.z - - [15/Oct/2018 23:49:19] "POST /webhook HTTP/1.1" 200 15
Pinged! Webhook created with id <redacted id>!
No. commits in push: 1
x.y.w.z - - [15/Oct/2018 23:49:32] "POST /webhook HTTP/1.1" 200 7
PR synchronize
x.y.w.z - - [15/Oct/2018 23:49:33] "POST /webhook HTTP/1.1" 200 7
No. Commits in PR: 10
PR closed
x.y.w.z - - [15/Oct/2018 23:49:56] "POST /webhook HTTP/1.1" 200 7
No. Commits in PR: 10
x.y.w.z - - [15/Oct/2018 23:50:00] "POST /webhook HTTP/1.1" 200 7
PR reopened
No. Commits in PR: 10