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Description of how a webhook works from http://webhooks.pbwiki.com/ -
How do they work?
By letting the user specify a URL for various events, the application will POST data to those URLs when the events occur...Among other things, you can:
- create notifications to you or anybody via email, IRC, Jabber, ...
- put the data in another app (real-time data synchronization)
- process the data and repost it using the app's API
- validate the data and potentially prevent it from being used by the app
Who is using web hooks?
DevjaVu, BitBucket, GitHub, Shopify, Versionshelf, PayPal (IPN), Jott (Links), IMified, PBwiki, Facebook (Platform, sort of), Mailhook.org, SMTP2Web, Astrotrain, Notifixious, Assembla, ZenDesk, Google Code
Do you know of any good uses of webhooks?
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A webhook is an HTTP-based callback function that allows lightweight, event-driven communication between 2 application programming interfaces (APIs).
With webhooks, it's generally a three-step process: Get the webhook URL from the application you want to send data to. Use that URL in the webhook section of the application you want to receive data from. Choose the type of events you want the application to notify you about.
AlertGrid is the webhook consumer. You can configure it to accept http calls from ANY source and raise alert (email, sms, phone) to a specified person or group of people (works worldwide!) whenever the parameters in the http callback meet your criteria or when the http call was expected but it didn't occur (kind of 'heartbeat' monitoring). There is a visual editor for you to easily create rules.
Apart from notifying people by sms or email it can also notify existing applications by sending the http requests to their APIs.
It can also visualise data received in http callbacks and show the history.
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