Create a webhook subscription #

This section details how to create a webhook subscription to deliver webhooks to a specified URL.

HTTP request #

POST https://api.dwolla.com/webhook-subscriptions

Request parameters #

Parameter	Required	Type	Description
url	yes	string	Where Dwolla should deliver the webhook notification.
secret	yes	string	A random, secret key, only known by your application. This secret key should be securely stored and used later when processing and validating the webhook request is from Dwolla.

HTTP status and error codes #

HTTP Status	Code	Description
400	MaxNumberOfResources	The maximum number of subscriptions has been reached.

Request and response #

JavaScript

// Using dwolla-v2 - https://github.com/Dwolla/dwolla-v2-node
var requestBody = {
  url: "http://myawesomeapplication.com/destination",
  secret: "your webhook secret",
};
dwolla
  .post("webhook-subscriptions", requestBody)
  .then((res) => res.headers.get("location")); // => 'https://api-sandbox.dwolla.com/webhook-subscriptions/5af4c10a-f6de-4ac8-840d-42cb65454216'

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