Getting Started
The webhooks API allows you to register a webhook in a specific node, which will send a payload to a predefined target when certain conditions are met. Webhooks ensure that you do not need to poll the public API periodically and are a robust way to stay up-to-date with the blockchain state.
Warning
All HTTP requests have to be sent with the Content-Type: application/json header. If the header is not present, it will result in malformed responses or request rejections.
Installation
The webhooks API comes by default with an installation of core. In case you don’t have it installed, you can add it manually by running yarn global add @arkecosystem/core-webhooks.
Alias
webhooks
Configuration
The webhooks API requires the following configuration in your app.json file. Make sure to have this configuration listed after @arkecosystem/core-blockchain.
1{2 "package": "@arkecosystem/core-webhooks"3},It is recommended to make configuration changes to these options by working with your .env file and the corresponding variables:
| Variable | Description | Type | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| CORE_WEBHOOKS_ENABLED | Enables or disabled the webhook API plugin | boolean | false |
| CORE_WEBHOOKS_HOST | The host to expose the API on | string | "0.0.0.0" |
| CORE_WEBHOOKS_PORT | The API port on which the plugin will listen | integer | 4004 |
The whitelist property can be changed directly in the app.json file and is an Array consisting of IP addresses that you allow to make connections to the webhook API. By default, only local access to the webhook API is allowed. This means that if you want to expose your webhook API to the outside, you’ll need to explicitly add the IP addresses that you will use to this list (recommended approach). It is also possible to use wildcards to indicate a range of IPs (e.g. "12.34.56.*") or even to allow everyone (e.g. "*") (not recommended).
1{2 "package": "@arkecosystem/core-webhooks",3 "options": {4 "server": {5 "whitelist": ["127.0.0.1", "::ffff:127.0.0.1"]6 }7 }8},Remember that there is no further authentication on the webhooks API itself, meaning that everyone that can access it can add, edit and delete your webhooks.
Note: due to the way the CORE_WEBHOOKS_ENABLED check is implemented, you will need to remove the entry from your .env file if you want to disabled it. Setting the property to CORE_WEBHOOKS_ENABLED=false will not disable the webhooks API.
Final Checks
After making changes to the webhooks API configuration, you will need to restart your relay process for the changes to take effect. If you want to check whether your webhook API is running, you should pay attention to the startup messages in the logs of your relay. It will print a line similar to INFO : Webhook API Server running at: http://0.0.0.0:4004 when it has successfully started the webhooks API. When you see INFO : Webhooks are disabled it means the webhooks API is currently disabled.