What are Webhooks and how to use them in Strapi

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Webhooks is a term you might have heard before in other apps, and you might have been hooked on it, wondering what it is about. Webhooks are a simple way for your different applications to communicate and get notified when a new event happens.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://strapi.io/blog/webhooks
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Hi, i am new to strapi and couldn’t understand how to use webhooks.

Requirement: whenever admin adds a content in collection (notifications), the event should be triggered with the latest data(eg: we are back with new offers) and it should be visible on react/next js website without refreshing the webpage.

We have created the webhook. But do we subscribe to the data that is sent from it?

Do we need another api endpoint for it?

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Just use SWR

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Created a Webhook to post change notifications to Slack but it doesn’t work.

Also running Trigger to test shows Error 400: no_text

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Yep, same problem, my be possible to add data from entry to hook data?

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TL;DR: You can use Strapi as a proxy server and pass body using a custom endpoint.

Check out our step-by-step tutorial demonstrating a clean and practical integration approach. Full guide available here: https://uninterrupted.tech/blog/passing-body-data-in-strapi-webhooks-triggering-git-hub-workflows-example/