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Asked: 2026-05-23T07:07:36+00:00

I want to write an app that given a user’s GitHub account information and

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I want to write an app that given a user’s GitHub account information and a repo will be notified whenever the repo is pushed to. I know I could basically save the state of the repo and poll it for changes periodically but I was wondering if there is a way to do this with a push architecture and if so how to go about it. Thanks for any help!

EDIT – I know I can probably doing this like Heroku does it by having them push to a remote server, but the ideal functionality is to know when they push to Github itself.

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  1. Editorial Team

    If you want to perform an action when a push is received, you can write a script and use it as a post-receive hook. GitHub supports git-hooks, but for obvious reasons they do not allow you to write a “custom script”. What their script do is actually simple – they notify you by POSTing a JSON to an URL you specify. See their documentation.

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