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Higor Ramos
Higor Ramos

Reputation: 475

How to run post-receive hook on GitHub

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.

Upvotes: 28

Views: 25725

Answers (1)

VonC
VonC

Reputation: 1323273

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.

Other examples, provided by Encryptex in the comments:

"How to setup continuous deployment of a website on a VPS using GitHub Actions" from Igwaneza Bruce.

Upvotes: 32

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