curl -X POST 'https://api.github.com/orgs/example-org/hooks' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $GITHUB_TOKEN" \
  -H 'Accept: application/vnd.github+json' \
  -H 'X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2026-03-10' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
  "name": "example-name",
  "config": {
    "url": "https://example.com/webhook",
    "content_type": "\"json\"",
    "secret": "\"********\"",
    "insecure_ssl": "\"0\"",
    "username": "\"kdaigle\"",
    "password": "\"password\""
  }
}'

# POST /orgs/{org}/hooks (GitHub API)
Base URL: https://api.github.com
Auth: Authorization; GitHub token; required.
Request formats: application/json.
Last verified: 2026-10-20

> Create an organization webhook

## Critical Gotchas
* GitHub recommends an `Accept: application/vnd.github+json` header and an explicit `X-GitHub-Api-Version` header.
* Fine-grained tokens only authorize repositories and permissions selected when the token is created.

## cURL
curl -X POST 'https://api.github.com/orgs/example-org/hooks' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $GITHUB_TOKEN" \
  -H 'Accept: application/vnd.github+json' \
  -H 'X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2026-03-10' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
  "name": "example-name",
  "config": {
    "url": "https://example.com/webhook",
    "content_type": "\"json\"",
    "secret": "\"********\"",
    "insecure_ssl": "\"0\"",
    "username": "\"kdaigle\"",
    "password": "\"password\""
  }
}'

## Parameters
| Name | In | Type | Required | Description |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| org | path | string | Yes | The organization name. The name is not case sensitive. |
| name | body | string | Yes | Must be passed as "web". |
| config | body | object | Yes | Key/value pairs to provide settings for this webhook. |
| events | body | string[] | No | Determines what [events](https://docs.github.com/webhooks/event-payloads) the... |
| active | body | boolean | No | Determines if notifications are sent when the webhook is triggered. Set to `t... |

## Response example
{"id":1,"url":"https://api.github.com/orgs/octocat/hooks/1"}

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POST

POST /orgs/{org}/hooks — GitHub API

GitHub token (required); https://api.github.com

GitHub API

Create an organization webhook

Base URL: https://api.github.com
Auth: Authorization: Bearer <GITHUB_API_KEY>
Last verified: 2026-10-20 · upstream hash matched

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Critical gotchas

GitHub recommends an Accept: application/vnd.github+json header and an explicit X-GitHub-Api-Version header.

Fine-grained tokens only authorize repositories and permissions selected when the token is created.

cURL

curl -X POST 'https://api.github.com/orgs/example-org/hooks' \  -H "Authorization: Bearer $GITHUB_TOKEN" \  -H 'Accept: application/vnd.github+json' \  -H 'X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2026-03-10' \  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \  -d '{  "name": "example-name",  "config": {    "url": "https://example.com/webhook",    "content_type": "\"json\"",    "secret": "\"********\"",    "insecure_ssl": "\"0\"",    "username": "\"kdaigle\"",    "password": "\"password\""  }}'

Parameters

Name	In	Type	Required	Description
org	path	string	Yes	The organization name. The name is not case sensitive.
name	body	string	Yes	Must be passed as "web".
config	body	object	Yes	Key/value pairs to provide settings for this webhook.
events	body	string[]	No	Determines what [events](https://docs.github.com/webhooks/event-payloads) the hook is triggered for. Set to `["*"]` to receive all possible events.
active	body	boolean	No	Determines if notifications are sent when the webhook is triggered. Set to `true` to send notifications.

Response 200 OK

{
  "id": 1,
  "url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/octocat/hooks/1",
  "ping_url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/octocat/hooks/1/pings",
  "deliveries_url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/octocat/hooks/1/deliveries",
  "name": "web",
  "events": [
    "push",
    "pull_request"
  ],
  "active": true,
  "config": {
    "url": "\"http://example.com/2\"",
    "insecure_ssl": "\"0\"",
    "content_type": "\"form\"",
    "secret": "\"********\""
  },
  "updated_at": "2011-09-06T20:39:23Z",
  "created_at": "2011-09-06T17:26:27Z",
  "type": "string"
}

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