# Information about webhooks
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/information-about-webhooks/140147
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [January 30, 2020, 7:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/information-about-webhooks/140147 "2020-01-30T07:53:35Z")
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### Author:  [@Ojus\_Save](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Ojus_Save)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2020, 7:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/information-about-webhooks/140147/1 "2020-01-30T07:53:35Z")
How can I create a webhook which notifies me of a new post created on my discourse forum?
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### Author:  [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2020, 9:22am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/information-about-webhooks/140147/2 "2020-01-30T09:22:18Z")
Have you read?:
> [@Configure webhooks that trigger on Discourse events to integrate with external services](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-up-webhooks/49045):
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> A webhook is a way to notify external services about changes on the internet. It’s easier to setup, manage and develop than a Discourse plugin. Though, it does require you to program a little bit or understand its technical details. In this #howto, I’ll set up webhook to power a Github bot for referencing pull request brought in a forum. We’ll want to see a new comment on Github pull request when a new post has a link to it. It’s a very simple process: Publish a new post. A webhook event happ…