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I am creating a payment gateway using Stripe.

I want to set my localhost url localhost/stripe/webhook.php as my webhook url. Is it possible to set a localhost address as a webhook url? This will be used to create a mail service that is triggered on every successful charge in Stripe.

dmulter
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DjangoDev
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  • possible duplicate of [Using Stripe webhooks with Rails](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9371566/using-stripe-webhooks-with-rails) – DjangoDev Oct 07 '13 at 07:15

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Stripe now has an official tool, the Stripe CLI that makes this easy (but still requires installing another tool).

See this answer below or the official Stripe CLI docs.

Alternatively, the another way to achieve this is with http://www.ultrahook.com which allows you to receive webhooks on localhost. This alternative will work with all webhooks, not just Stripe's

scales
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Vinay Sahni
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    As others answered below, may want to consider the more popular [ngrok](https://github.com/inconshreveable/ngrok) which is open-source. – jmq Feb 24 '17 at 19:13
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    ngrok has limitations per minute which make it useless for development. – Code Tree Mar 22 '18 at 14:33
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    ultrahook doesn't seem to return https endpoints. http endpoints aren't accepted by webhook providers like microsoft. Am i missing something here? – Andy Dufresne Apr 29 '19 at 13:09
  • I switched today to `stripe`. I used to use `ngrok`, but development stopped about 4 or 5 years ago. I therefore would prefer `stripe` because of the support and it is their official tool. That said, I have not used it yet, so I do not know how it performs compared to `ngrok`. – Greeso Apr 22 '20 at 15:05
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    Warning using the Stripe CLI will send events to the *localhost* **and any** *staging* webhook URLs defined in your webhook settings, simultaneously. After many misfires, Stripe will alert the account holder (normally the client) and remove the webhook URL altogether. – Ricky Boyce Nov 05 '20 at 21:21
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There's now another option: you can now use the Stripe CLI to seamlessly test webhooks locally without the need for a 3rd party tool.

In this case you would just do something like this to plumb your Stripe events through to your local webhook handler code:

stripe listen --forward-to localhost/stripe/webhook.php
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    It may not be 3rd party, but you do need to install another tool which is unfortunate. However this should be the recommended answer now. – Dagmar Sep 26 '19 at 11:05
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    If you need to debug webhooks, append `?XDEBUG_SESSION_START=phpstorm` to the url and wrap it in quotes. But be aware, stripe webhooks time out pretty fast. – gabelbart Jun 14 '22 at 10:07
  • In case you're working with `Vue/Laravel` -> Follow this guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4Jz9UPAyI0 you don't need to use `vue-stripe` for it but it does a good job explaining which `routes` to create and how `webhooks` work. – Artur Müller Romanov Jul 14 '22 at 09:43
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How to use ngrok and set up Stripe Webhooks url

Source Link

  1. First Download ngrok and extract it on your computer
  2. Double click ngrok.exe

  3. Try typing ngrok.exe http 80 at this terminal prompt to expose port 80

  4. For example if we you have Stripe webhooks url on localhost like so http://localhost/stripeproject/webhook.php

  5. Just specify your ngrok url as the endpoint with your webhooks service and you’re almost done.

  6. You can set up this url http://f253021b.ngrok.io/stripeproject/webhook.php to send test webhooks to your integration’s endpoint within your account’s webhooks settings.

It's working fine for me.

More details click here

thecodedeveloper.com
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    Just to add, if you have custom local domain such as "server1.dev" for instance, you can pass it in ngrok as host-headers. So, if you want ngrok to point specially to server1.dev, you will issue following command: `ngrok http --host-header "server1.dev" 80` – ashutosh Dec 31 '17 at 21:22
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Try with stripe CLI:

Here you can forward events to your Localhost server.

https://stripe.com/docs/webhooks/test

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  • please do not include link-only answers, even if it is the official docs. please be sure to copy and paste the relevant parts of the code. – Joshua Feb 18 '21 at 06:14
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No this won't work. Stripe servers have to be able to contact your server to send the webhook. Stripe won't know how to contact your "localhost" . You need a web accessible address or IP address for this to work

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Even simpler, add this endpoint to your app when running locally (not in prod!):

const eventsSeen = new Set();

app.post("/test/simulate-stripe-webhook", async (req, res) => {
  const events = await stripe.events.list({ limit: req.query.limit || 10 });
  for (const event of events) {
    if (eventsSeen.has(event.id)) continue;
    await processStripeEvent(event);
    eventsSeen.add(event.id);
  }
  return res.status(200).end();
});

...where processStripeEvent is whatever logic your webhook triggers.

Then there's no need to manage webhooks in stripe.

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It is possible to send the webhooks to your local host. Look up "ngrok", when you run that it opens up a port to public internet access and provides you with a url that can access your localhost from. take this url and set it as your webhook address and finish the url by pointing it at your webhook.php file.

* EDIT *

This is only appropriate for testing.

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You can use expose.sh to expose your server using a public HTTPS URL.

Install expose.sh

For Mac or Linux, go to Expose.sh and copy/paste the installation code shown into a terminal.

For Windows go to Expose.sh, download the binary and put it somewhere in your PATH.

Expose your api to the web

Start your API server. Then run expose <port> where port is the port your API server is running on, like 80 or 8080.

Expose.sh will generate a random public expose.sh URL. You'll see output like

https://s3rh.expose.sh is forwarding to localhost:80
http://s3rh.expose.sh is forwarding to localhost:80

Then you can get Stripe to use the public HTTPS URL, which will forward to localhost. I've written a full guide here

Disclaimer: I built expose.sh

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Like Matt said, you will need to put that somewhere online - preferably using https://. For your reference, I put up an example mail webhook 2 months ago here: https://github.com/pnommensen/Stripe-Webhook-Emails.

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Yes It is Possible to to test a strip web hook on local host Go to this URL https://dashboard.stripe.com/test/webhooks/ and Open your End point For i.e https://test.com/api/StripeHook and Now Open your Webhook atempt which is succeeded by strip and copy all json code.

Now Run your project in local host and open postman and hit https://localhost/api/StripeHook and put all copied json text in body data of post man.

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  • What headers do we need to set for postman to work? Its complaining no API keys provided when I send from postman. – hackerl33t Jun 15 '21 at 10:05
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Use https://www.reliablewebhook.com VS Code extension or Web App to relay stripe webhook requests to localhost.

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