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Emiliano Saurin
Emiliano Saurin

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Turning email and cron into webhooks

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I had two small problems that kept coming back in side projects:

  • I wanted an email address that would call my webhook
  • I wanted a cron job that would call my webhook

I did not want another dashboard or a full automation product for that

Email mode creates an address like this:

r_abcd1234@hook.echovalue.dev
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Anything sent there is posted to the URL you configured

curl 'https://api.echovalue.dev/webhook' \
  -H 'x-token: YOUR_TOKEN' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
    "webhookId": "support-alerts",
    "url": "https://example.com/hooks/support"
  }'
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There are also output formats for Slack, Discord, Teams and Telegram

The other mode is scheduled webhooks:

curl 'https://api.echovalue.dev/webhook' \
  -H 'x-token: YOUR_TOKEN' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
    "webhookId": "daily-sync",
    "url": "https://example.com/hooks/daily-sync",
    "schedule": {
      "cron": "0 9 * * *",
      "timezone": "Europe/Rome"
    }
  }'
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Pricing uses credits, mostly to prevent abuse. The actual cost per request is very low. New tokens include free credits, if someone wants to test more seriously, I can create a voucher

Docs: https://docs.echovalue.dev/webhook/
Landing: https://www.echovalue.dev/webhook-api/

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