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Receiving Build Notifications via Discord Webhooks


Created: Oct 27, 2018 – Last Updated: Aug 31, 2023

Tags: Discord

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Many CI/CD services support both incoming and outgoing webhooks for the communication with external services. Also Discord (opens in a new tab) allows the usage of webhooks to display messages — so receiving build notifications in your Discord server is totally doable! For this example I’m using Netlify (opens in a new tab) but the same steps (albeit with a different UI) also apply to other services.

You can also adapt this guide to send notifications of GitHub Actions to a discord channel of yours.

#Step 1: Create the Discord webhook

Choose a channel on your server in which the messages should come in. Right-click on the channel => Edit Channel => Integrations => Webhooks. Click on New Webhook. Press the Copy Webhook URL button to have the webhook URL in your clipboard.

#Step 2: Go to your CI/CD service

Visit your dashboard where you can set Notifications and add a notification of type “Slack integration”:

Section of the dashboard on Netlify. After clicking on "Add notification" one can choose "Slack integration". It has the description: Send notifications to a Slack channel

When asked about which event it should listen to, choose the one you need. For Netlify, you could choose Deploy succeeded. Paste the webhook URL from your clipboard to the input for the outgoing webhook URL. Netlify calls this field Slack Incoming Webhook URL. You’re choosing the Slack integration and not a pure webhook because the Slack notifications will be formatted and embedded as rich text.

#Step 3: Add /slack to the webhook URL

Discord explains in their developer documentation (opens in a new tab) that you need to add /slack to the end of the webhook URL to receive webhook messages in the proper format.

Go to the URL input field and add /slack to the end of the URL. Now, go try it out and trigger a build!


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