I Built a Free Webhook Tester

I was working on API Alerts integrations and I kept running into the same problem. I’d configure a webhook, trigger an event, and then have no idea if it actually sent. Did the payload look right? Did it even fire? Who knows.

I’d end up tailing logs or setting up ngrok tunnels to localhost just to see what was coming through. It was annoying every single time.

So I built Hooks.

How it works

You get a unique URL. Send any HTTP request to it. The request shows up on the page immediately. Method, headers, body, everything. No sign-up, no account needed.

I originally built it so that people setting up API Alerts could test their webhook integrations before going live. But I’ve been using it for everything now. Stripe webhooks, GitHub webhooks, random stuff I’m debugging. It’s one of those tools that’s so simple it’s just useful.

That’s it

It’s free, it’s at hooks.apialerts.com, and there’s not much else to say about it. I needed it, I built it, now anyone can use it.