# How to change a Post-Created Webhook Event Payload
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-change-a-post-created-webhook-event-payload/210651
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [December 1, 2021, 8:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-change-a-post-created-webhook-event-payload/210651 "2021-12-01T08:53:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@luck7even](https://meta.discourse.org/u/luck7even)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2021, 8:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-change-a-post-created-webhook-event-payload/210651/1 "2021-12-01T08:53:33Z")
Hello.
I want to customize the payload value of webbook when an event for topic generation occurs.
Example…
# AS-IS
```plaintext
{
"post": {
"id": 19,
"name": "user",
"username": "user",
"avatar_template": "/letter_avatar_proxy/v2/letter/u/c0e974/{size}.png",
"created_at": "2018-07-20T06:24:33.205Z",
"cooked": "Cool, now i have you, haha
",
"post_number": 6,
"post_type": 1,
"updated_at": "2018-07-20T06:24:33.205Z",
"reply_count": 0,
"reply_to_post_number": null,
"quote_count": 0,
"avg_time": null,
"incoming_link_count": 0,
"reads": 0,
"score": 0,
"topic_id": 11,
"topic_slug": "this-is-new-topic",
"topic_title": "This is new topic",
"display_username": "user",
"primary_group_name": null,
"version": 1,
"user_title": null,
"moderator": false,
"admin": true,
"staff": true,
"user_id": 1,
"hidden": false,
"trust_level": 1,
"deleted_at": null,
"user_deleted": false,
"edit_reason": null,
"wiki": false,
"topic_posts_count": 6
}
}
```
# TO-BE
```plaintext
{
"topic_title": "This is new topic"
}
```
Can I know how to do it?
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### Author:  [@singi2016cn](https://meta.discourse.org/u/singi2016cn)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2026, 3:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-change-a-post-created-webhook-event-payload/210651/2 "2026-01-09T03:13:44Z")
I have a similar need. I also feel confused. There is no good solution at the moment.
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### Author:  [@Thefacto](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Thefacto)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2026, 5:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-change-a-post-created-webhook-event-payload/210651/3 "2026-01-09T05:24:01Z")
Hey, there’s no built-in way in Discourse to send only a tiny part of the webhook payload, but a couple of ideas that might work:
- You could have a small proxy in the middle (like a tiny Node.js or Python endpoint) that gets the full webhook, strips everything except `topic_title`, then forwards it on. Super flexible and doesn’t touch Discourse itself.
- Or, if you’re up for it, a tiny Discourse plugin could listen to `on(:post_created)` and send only the fields you care about. Just a few lines in Ruby and you’re done.
- Another lazy option is to just let a tool like Zapier or n8n grab the full payload and map/filter it before it reaches your final system.
Nothing fancy, just some ways I’d play around if I needed only `topic_title` 🙂
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### Author:  [@singi2016cn](https://meta.discourse.org/u/singi2016cn)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2026, 1:57am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-change-a-post-created-webhook-event-payload/210651/4 "2026-01-23T01:57:17Z")
Yes. I am using the first one, but this requires extra coding and maintenance.