PubSubHubbub

GitHub can also serve as a PubSubHubbub hub for all repositories. PSHB is a simple publish/subscribe protocol that lets servers register to receive updates when a topic is updated. The updates are sent with an HTTP POST request to a callback URL. Topic URLs for a GitHub repository's pushes are in this format:

https://github.com/:owner/:repo/events/:event

The event can be any event string that is listed at the top of this document.

Response format

The default format is what existing post-receive hooks should expect: A JSON body sent as the payload parameter in a POST. You can also specify to receive the raw JSON body with either an Accept header, or a .json extension.

Accept: application/json
https://github.com/:owner/:repo/events/push.json

Callback URLs

Callback URLs can use the http:// protocol.

# Send updates to postbin.org
http://postbin.org/123

Subscribing

The GitHub PubSubHubbub endpoint is: https://api.github.com/hub. A successful request with curl looks like:

curl -u "user" -i \
  https://api.github.com/hub \
  -F "hub.mode=subscribe" \
  -F "hub.topic=https://github.com/:owner/:repo/events/push" \
  -F "hub.callback=http://postbin.org/123"

PubSubHubbub requests can be sent multiple times. If the hook already exists, it will be modified according to the request.

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
`hub.mode`	`string`	Required. Either `subscribe` or `unsubscribe`.
`hub.topic`	`string`	Required. The URI of the GitHub repository to subscribe to. The path must be in the format of `/:owner/:repo/events/:event`.
`hub.callback`	`string`	The URI to receive the updates to the topic.
`hub.secret`	`string`	A shared secret key that generates a SHA1 HMAC of the outgoing body content. You can verify a push came from GitHub by comparing the raw request body with the contents of the `X-Hub-Signature` header. You can see the PubSubHubbub documentation for more details.