Sending GitHub updates to Discord via webhooks

Have you ever wanted to receive GitHub repository updates on your Discord server? Let's walk through a few simple steps to connect GitHub to Discord using webhooks and configure the event notifications!

1. Choose the channel where you want to send updates from GitHub.
2. Hover your mouse cursor over the channel, then click on the gear icon for "Edit Channel".
3. Go to the "Integrations" tab, then select "Webhooks".
4. Click the "Create Webhook" button, which will generate a new webhook with a random name.
5. Let's rename the webhook to "Github" and save the changes.
6. Click on "Copy Webhook URL" - we'll need this URL for the next step.

Example URL: https://discord.com/api/webhooks/1142536189203718235/Ep-gTnqmq3V0ATWij9n1LohHyLLxSQjqsT2Av7tM3CgvTYCTZ5PHNAFY1w7YD0NXXr8P

1. Open the GitHub repository and navigate to "Settings".
2. Go to the "Webhooks" tab in the left menu, then click on "Add webhook."
3. Paste the webhook's URL into Payload URL, which you created in the previous step, and add the suffix /github to the end of it so that the URL changes as follows: https://discord.com/api/webhooks/xxx/yyy/github
4. Change the Content type to application/json.
5. You can choose the event types that should be sent with this webhook; for simplicity, select "Send me everything" for now.
6. Complete the webhook addition by clicking the "Add webhook" button.

Let's try performing a few simple actions to test the webhook event sending: we'll make a commit to the repository and add a star.

As we can see, messages about GitHub repository events are successfully coming to the Discord channel 🤩.