How to run post-receive hook on GitHub

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Higor Ramos picture Higor Ramos · Sep 27, 2013 · Viewed 19.4k times · Source

how to run a post-receive hook in GitHub?. I know that there is the web-one but I want to write a custom script and do not want to receive a post from github.

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VonC picture VonC · Sep 27, 2013

The post-receive hook of Github are actually only "WebHooks", to communicate with a web server whenever the repository is pushed to.

For security reason, you cannot run anything on the GitHub server side.

When a push is made to your repository, we'll POST to your URL with a payload of JSON-encoded data about the push and the commits it contained.

You can use Requestbin to test your webhooks.
(check that the JSON actually comes from GitHub though)

Note: since late 2018, you can run actions on GitHub server-side, with GitHub Actions.

Actions are triggered by GitHub platform events directly in a repo and run on-demand workflows as autoscaled containers in response.
With GitHub Actions you can automate your workflow from idea to production.

See examples with sdras/awesome-actions.

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