Incoming Webhooks
How to create an Incoming Webhook!
If you are unfamiliar with webhooks, they can appear slightly daunting at first. Fortunately, thanks to several third-party resources, they are a breeze. Here, we will show a quick guide on how to get Reddit webhooks running for your team using IFTTT.
Creating an Incoming Webhook
Step 1: Create a Webhook
- From your Team Settings menu or Channel Settings, navigate to Webhooks and select Create a Webhook.
- Please give it a name and a channel destination (this is where your webhook will post to). Be sure to give it a nice icon, copy the Webhook URL, and click Create.
Step 2: Create an IFTTT Applet
For this guide, we're going to set up an Applet on IFTTT so that our webhook will share any new top posts on /r/DestinyTheGame. To do this, we're going to head over to IFTTT and then Create an Applet:
Hit +This and then search for Reddit and select your Reddit trigger:
And then enter the subreddit name we want to receive posts from:
Once we've set our trigger ("This"), then we're going to put our action ("That").
In this case, we will search for "webhooks," which gives us the action "Make a web request."
Once selected, there is a modal featuring several fields, the first of which is URL. This is where you paste the Webhook URL from Step 1.
We're going to set the Method to POST and Content-Type to application/JSON like so:
You can draft your own body if you are familiar. Otherwise, feel free to use the one provided below:
{
"embeds":[
{
"title":"<<<{{Title}}>>>",
"url":"<<<{{PostURL}}>>>",
"description":"<<<{{Content}}>>>",
"thumbnail":{
"url":"<<<{{ImageURL}}>>>"
},
"footer":{
"icon_url":"https://www.redditstatic.com/desktop2x/img/favicon/favicon-32x32.png",
"text":"/u/<<<{{Author}}>>> | <<<{{PostedAt}}>>>"
}
}
]
}
Follow the remaining steps to complete your IFTTT applet.
Step 3: Profit
And that's it! Next time a new top post is made to our favorite subreddit, our webhook bot will make sure we're aware of it. If you've followed the steps above, the posts should look something like this:
Webhooks can be used in a number of unique ways, limited only by your own creativity. While this guide will help you get started with the basics, feel free to explore the variety of triggers and actions available or build your own from scratch! Good luck!
Click here for more information on setting up incoming webhooks for Twitch, Twitter and RSS Feed.