Quick Guide: Test Webhooks from Your Terminal in 30 Seconds

Testing webhooks during development is painful. You need a public URL, a running server, ngrok setup... or you can just use curl.

Step 1: Create a Temporary Endpoint

curl http://69.62.106.38:3101/create

This returns a JSON response with a unique URL and an inspect endpoint.

Step 2: Point Your Webhook to It

Use the endpoint URL as your webhook destination in Stripe, GitHub, Slack, or any service you're integrating with.

Step 3: Inspect What Arrives

curl http://69.62.106.38:3101/inspect/<your-hook-id>

See every request: headers, body, method, timestamp. Perfect for debugging webhook payloads without deploying anything.

Why This Tool Exists

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More Free Developer Tools

All of these work from your terminal with curl, no signup required:

• TextForge API (http://69.62.106.38:3100) — 18 free endpoints: UUID, hashing, JWT decode, markdown conversion, base64, and more
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