Quick Start - Forwarding
How to send webhooks to private or public destinations
Webhook Relay provides public endpoints which can accept HTTP requests and then forward them to either public or internal destinations.

Webhook routing to public and private
Based on your needs, there are multiple different ways to start forwarding. The easiest one for internal destinations is using the relay CLI directly.
Installing the CLI:
curl https://my.webhookrelay.com/webhookrelay/downloads/install-cli.sh | bash
Then, to forward webhooks to
https://localhost:8080/webhooks by running:
relay forward -b my-bucket https://localhost:8080/webhooks
We have a step-by-step configuration wizards that will help you:
- https://my.webhookrelay.com/new-basic-forwarding - simple single input and single output to internal or public destination
- https://my.webhookrelay.com/new-forwarding - for more advanced use-cases when request transformation is required
Once configuration is created, you can always edit all details by visiting your buckets page. If your destination is internal, you will need to start the agent.
A newly created bucket will have a default input. However, you will need to create an output destination.

Newly created bucket
To do that, click on Add More in the "Output Destinations" section:

Create an output
Set name, destination and output type, then click ‘create’:

creating a new output
All received webhooks will be forwarded to that destination. If you selected 'internal' network, you will need to start the relay agent as well:
relay forward --bucket jenkins
Example output:
relay forward --bucket jenkins
Forwarding:
https://vlndyzsibcil98gdte7l3r.hooks.webhookrelay.com -> https://192.168.1.100:8080/github-webhooks
Currently Webhook Relay forwards:
- Body (up to 2MB for regular buckets and up to 50MB when Large Webhooks are enabled)
- Headers
- URL query, for example
https://xyz.hooks.webhookrelay.com?foo=bar
, will be forwarded tohttp://localhost:8080?foo=bar
- Extra path that’s after your public input endpoints:
https://xyz.hooks.webhookrelay.com/directory/foo
will be forwarded tohttp://localhost:8080/directory/foo
If you would like to learn more about other features such as rules matching, utilising custom domains and functions, go to the deep-dive section.
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