is-valid-github-event

Validate GitHub webhook events.

Install

Install with npm:

$ npm install --save is-valid-github-event

Install with yarn:

$ yarn add is-valid-github-event

Usage

var isValid = require('is-valid-github-event');

API

.isValid

Validates that the provided request is a valid GitHub webhook request with a valid GitHub event and action.

Params

• req {Object}: Instance of an HTTP Request object (usually from express, hapi, or koa)
• secret {String}: Optional secret used to sign the GitHub request. Leave this out to just check event or action
• options {Object}: Additional options for validating against event and action.
• options.event {String}: The GitHub event to validate against. See typeof-github-event for more information.
• options.action {String}: The event action to validate against. See GitHub API docs for more information.
• returns {Boolean}: Returns true when valid and false when not.

Example

// using an express middleware
express.post('/webhook', function(req, res) {
  if (!isValid(req, 'my-secret', {event: 'issues', action: 'opened'})) {
    res.status(500);
    res.send({message: 'Invalid request'});
    return;
  }
  res.status(200);
  res.send({message: 'Valid request'});
})

About

Contributing

Pull requests and stars are always welcome. For bugs and feature requests, please create an issue.

Please read the contributing guide for advice on opening issues, pull requests, and coding standards.

Building docs

(This project's readme.md is generated by verb, please don't edit the readme directly. Any changes to the readme must be made in the .verb.md readme template.)

To generate the readme, run the following command:

$ npm install -g verbose/verb#dev verb-generate-readme && verb

Running tests

Running and reviewing unit tests is a great way to get familiarized with a library and its API. You can install dependencies and run tests with the following command:

$ npm install && npm test

Author

Brian woodward

• github/doowb
• twitter/doowb

License

Copyright © 2017, Brian woodward. Released under the MIT License.

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