Usually to use a Convoy, you’d need to create an endpoint, and then create a subscription, then send events. This isn’t the easiest migration path, especially for users who already have a webhook system in-place, and are looking to offload the delivery to a better delivery system. In this guide, I will show you how to use Convoy as a proxy to deliver webhooks with one API. No need for creating any resources upfront. Let’s dive in!

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Guide

1

Have a Convoy instance running

The first step is to ensure you have a Convoy instance running. You can either spin up one or create on from our cloud platform.
2

Create an outgoing project

This feature is only available to outgoing webhooks project. So you’d need to ensure you’ve created one. You can check here to learn more.
3

Push event. 🎉

terminal
curl --request POST \
--url {base_url}/api/v1/projects/{project_id}/events/dynamic \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer {api_key}' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '{
  "url": "{endpoint_url}",
  "secret": "{endpoint_secret}",
  "data": "{data}",
  "event_type": "{event_type}",
  "event_types": ["{event_type}"],
  "idempotency_key": ""
}'

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Limitations

While this endpoint enables you get going super fast, there are a few limitations, you should be aware of, such as:
  • Limited Subscription Configuration: This endpoint, only supports event_type filtering with the event_types array. It doesn’t provide advanced payload filtering. To configure, such filters, check this endpoint.
  • Limited Endpoint Configuration: This doesn’t enable you to set attributes like http_timeout, rate_limit_duration. To see what is fully possible check this endpoint.