webhook

A method of augmenting or altering the behavior of a web application or a web page using custom callbacks, usually triggered by some external event.

Noun

  1. A method of augmenting or altering the behavior of a web application or a web page using custom callbacks, usually triggered by some external event.
    • Webhooks are the most widely used approach for solving the event delivery challenge (see section 1.2.3) and realizing events in combination with REST APIs. - 2017, Matthias Biehl, Webhooks – Events for RESTful APIs,...

    Synonyms: reverse API

Origin

From web + hook, coined by Jeff Lindsay in 2007 from the computer programming term hook.

Forms

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