Using The Hookdeck CLI

Using the Hookdeck CLI, you can forward your webhooks to your local webserver. We offer unlimited free and permanent webhook URLs. You webhook history is preserved between session and can be viewed, replayed or used for testing by you and your teammates.

Hookdeck CLI is compatible with most of Hookdeck features such as filtering and fan-out delivery. You can use Hookdeck CLI to develop or test your webhook integration code locally.

Although it uses a different approach and philosophy, it's a replacement for ngrok and alternative HTTP tunnel solutions.

Hookdeck for development is completely free, and we monetize the platform with our Production offering.

For a complete reference, see the CLI reference

Installation

Hookdeck CLI is available for macOS, Windows, and Linux for distros like Ubuntu, Debian, RedHat and CentOS.

macOS

Hookdeck CLI is available on macOS via Homebrew:

brew install hookdeck/hookdeck/hookdeck

Windows

Hookdeck CLI is available on Windows via the Scoop package manager:

scoop bucket add hookdeck https://github.com/hookdeck/scoop-hookdeck-cli.git
scoop install hookdeck

Linux Or Without package managers

To install the Hookdeck CLI on Linux without a package manager:

Download the latest Linux tar.gz file from https://github.com/hookdeck/hookdeck-cli/releases/latest
Unzip the file: tar -xvf stripe_X.X.X_linux_x86_64.tar.gz
Run the executable: ./hookdeck

Docker

The CLI is also available as a Docker image: hookdeck/hookdeck-cli.

docker run --rm -it hookdeck/hookdeck-cli version
hookdeck version x.y.z (beta)

Usage

Installing the CLI provides access to the hookdeck command.

hookdeck [command]

# Run `--help` for detailed information about CLI commands
hookdeck [command] help

Commands

hookdeck login

Listen

Start a session to forward your webhooks to a local HTTP server.

hookdeck listen <port> <source-alias?> <connection-query?>

Hookdeck works by routing webhooks receive for a given source (ie: Shopify, Github, etc.) to its defined destination by connecting them with a connection to a destination. The CLI allows you to receive webhooks for any given connection and forward them to your localhost at the specified port.

Each source is assigned a Webhook URL, which you can use to receive webhooks. When starting with a fresh account, the CLI will prompt you to create your first source. Each CLI process can listen to one source at a time.

Contrarily to ngrok, Hookdeck does not allow to append a path to your Webhook URL. Instead, the routing is done within Hookdeck configuration. This means you will also be prompted to specify your destination path, and you can have as many as you want per source.

The port param is mandatory. Webhooks will be forwarded to http://localhost:$PORT/$DESTINATION_PATH

Listen to all your connections for a given source

The second param, source-alias is used to select a specific source to listen on. By default, the CLI will start listening on all eligible connections for that source.

$ hookdeck listen 3000 shopify

╭ Shopify ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│                                                                        │
│  🔌 Webhook URL: http://localhost:5000/e/src_dgRnekOhKKZe7KqyXK88Uajr  │
│                                                                        │
╰────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
Inventory Service forwarding to /webhooks/shopify/inventory
Orders Service forwarding to /webhooks/shopify/orders

👉  Inspect and replay webhooks: https://dashboard.hookdeck.io/events/cli

⣾ Getting ready...

Listen to a subset of connection

The 3rd param, connection-query can be used to filter the list of connections the CLI will listen to. The connection query can either be the connection alias or the path

$ hookdeck listen 3000 shopify orders

╭ Shopify ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│                                                                        │
│  🔌 Webhook URL: http://localhost:5000/e/src_dgRnekOhKKZe7KqyXK88Uajr  │
│                                                                        │
╰────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
Inventory Service forwarding to /webhooks/shopify/inventory

👉  Inspect and replay webhooks: https://dashboard.hookdeck.io/events/cli

⣾ Getting ready...

Viewing and interacting with your webhooks

Webhooks logs for your CLI can be found at https://dashboard.hookdeck.io/events/cli. Events can be replayed or saved at any time.

Version

Print your CLI version and whether or not a new version is available.

hookdeck version

Completion

Configure auto-completion for Hookdeck CLI. It is run on install when using Homebrew or Scoop. You can optionally run this command when using the binaries directly or without a package manager.

hookdeck completion

Development Workflow