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Introducing WebHooks for Ethereum

Webhooks are the best way for server-side apps to send automated messages or information to other server-side apps. So how do you accomplish this in the Web3 world where your dApp is based on Ethereum blockchain?

Quicknode

Quicknode

July 22, 2020 — 2 min read

Introducing WebHooks for Ethereum

We created Quicknode WebHooks to allow customers to bring Web3 smart-contract event listeners to Web2, by handling the discovery and notification of new smart-contract events in real-time. This means customers don’t have to un a server 24/7 to doing their own polling or websocket listening.

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With WebHooks we just ask you to tell us which smart-contract you want events from, what events you want to be notified of, and where to send those events - we take care of subscribing to those events, establishing filters, restarting websocket connections and more. You just get clean, deduplicated events along with their associated arguments and respective transaction id.

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We offer full logs of every webhook we send you, with full text search on every request, response, and status code.

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We built WebHooks because of customer feedback from Avastars.io. They run 100% serverless and needed a way to avoid running infrastructure 24/7 to get every event happening on their NFT contracts. They’ve been an epic beta customer and we’re super thankful to Cliff Hall & the rest of the team for collaborating with us to get WebHooks to a point where a lot more people can use it!

To get started, just head over to Quicknode.com and select an API plan, then add the WebHooks add-on – and you're ready to set up your first Ethereum webhook (follow a-to-z setup guide)!

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