Webhook testing guides
Practical, step-by-step guides: capture real webhook payloads, verify signatures and forward events to your local app.
How to Test Webhooks Locally
Why Stripe, GitHub and other providers can't reach localhost, and how to capture real webhooks on a public URL and forward them to your machine.
Read the guide → GitHubHow to Test GitHub Webhooks
Configure a repository webhook, read the headers GitHub sends, verify X-Hub-Signature-256 correctly and redeliver events while you debug.
Read the guide → MCPTest Webhooks with Claude and ChatGPT via MCP
Connect Webhook Inspector as an MCP server so your AI assistant can create capture URLs, wait for a webhook and debug the payload with you.
Read the guide → ShopifyHow to Test Shopify Webhooks
Create a store-level webhook or an app subscription, inspect the X-Shopify headers, verify X-Shopify-Hmac-Sha256 and handle Shopify's timeout and retry rules.
Read the guide → SlackHow to Test Slack Events API and Interactivity
See what Slack sends to your Request URL, handle the url_verification challenge, verify X-Slack-Signature and decode form-encoded interactivity payloads.
Read the guide → StripeHow to Test Stripe Webhooks
Set up a Stripe webhook endpoint, see exactly what Stripe sends, verify the Stripe-Signature header in Node.js and Python, and forward events to your local app.
Read the guide → TelegramHow to Test a Telegram Bot Webhook
Point your bot at a public capture URL with setWebhook, inspect the raw updates Telegram sends, then forward them to the bot running on your machine.
Read the guide → TwilioHow to Test Twilio SMS and Voice Webhooks
Point a Twilio number at a capture URL, read the form-encoded parameters, reply with TwiML without writing a server, and validate X-Twilio-Signature with the helper libraries.
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