Intro to Webhooks — Discord

Webhooks are a low-effort way to post messages to channels in Discord. They do not require a bot user or authentication to use.

Cheav Sovannarith
Tech Epic
2 min readDec 12, 2019

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Discord’s built in Webhooks function as an easy way to get automated messages and data updates sent to a text channel in your server. Think of them as one of those fancy pneumatic tube things you used to love sending money into at a bank and watch disappear, but instead of never seeing your money again, you’re actually sending messages into Discord from another platform.

  1. Open your Server Settings Webhook tab:

2. Click the purple button to create a new webhook!

Then you will get a new Webhook with the URL.

3. How to use Webhook to send message :

curl -X POST WEBHOOK_URL -H ‘content-type: application/json’ -d ‘{“content”: “Hello, World!”}’

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