discord-github-webhook

After working in the company for a while and have leanred a lot from the team, I got inspired to do an integration between Discord and GitHub because we use Discord as the main communication channel and it'd be nice if we can have a cutie bot shouting out to us whenever coworker has done the PR.

I did some research and found nothing in particular for Discord helping this task, unlike Slack that has many supporting add-ons.

One simple way to automate the task is using Webhook connecting between Discord channel and GitHub repo. Here is the steps for setting up:

1. Setting up Webhook URL from your Discord server

   • Go to Server Settings
   • Go to Webhooks, click Create Webhook
   • Set up name, channel you want the webhook to send message to
   • Copy the Webhook URL

   Note: you can set up Webhook only on the server that you have the permission (in my case I own the server).

2. Setting up GitHub Webhook

   • Go to Settings on your repository

   • Go to Webhooks, click Add webhook

   • Paste the discord webhook URL on Payload field, and add /github

     DO NOT forget to add /github

   • Choose application/json for Content type

   • Next, select the events to trigger the webhook.

     There is a lot for you to choose. You can select whatever you want 😉 In my case, for the demo purpose, I select some options.

     Note: you can edit the setting later on, so don't worry!

   • Then click Add webhook

   • Hoorey, you now finish setting up

It's time to try it out!

I will add a comment to the issue, then, technically, GitHub should automatically send a message to my discord channel.

Yayy! the message is immediately sent over.