Webhooks notifications

I previously requested a developer API; the other side of the coin is some way for code in another system to be notified of a user’s actions in your system without constantly polling. The way Pivotal Tracker did this is with webhooks, which I am led to believe is the standard tool for this in the modern Web. It allowed the user to, in each project, register a URL that would be, any time a user took any action in the project, called with a POST request containing a JSON object describing the action. (I think Pivotal Tracker only allowed one webhook per project, rather than as many as the user needed …)

For a long time I used this (via Integromat, now Make.com) to add new stories to a Google Sheet, which I used for cross-project planning (for reasons I won’t go into here); I only stopped doing that when a glitch somewhere in the pipeline led to my hitting the Integromat free tier usage limit for the month.

It would be nice to be able to select in the LiteTracker what kinds of activity to receive notifications about via the (or a) webhook; for my use case I only cared about newly created stories (though with filtering I might have added something for deletion or state transitions), and the flood of calls that caused me to stop using it was almost entirely “story X moved to after story Y”. But that’s secondary to having (reliable) webhooks in the first place.