Receiver is an Emacs script for quickly opening up a beame-insta-ssl tunnel to a local elnode server that outputs any request params to a pretty-printed buffer.
It’s handy for testing webhooks and currently assumes POST requests sending JSON data, but could easily be expanded with additional format support (PRs welcomed).
For an example use-case, check out this Stack Overflow question.
- Install elnode
- Install this script
Install your preferred tunnel and set receiver-tunnel-command to
properly execute it, where %p will be replaced with the port
defined in receiver-port. For example, the default command is:
"beame-insta-ssl tunnel %p http"To use beame-insta-ssl, follow their installation
instructions here. If
instead you’d like to
use localtunnel.me, your
receiver-tunnel-command might look something like this:
"lt --port %p"Ngrok may also work.
receiver-listenopens the tunnel and starts the web server- Results are printed to a buffer named
*HTTP Request* - Tunnel status is printed to a buffer named
receiver receiver-hangupcloses the tunnel and web server
Receiver provides a receiver-request-received-hook hook, allowing
you to receive notifications when requests arrive. An example using
alert.el might look something like this:
(add-hook 'receiver-request-received-hook
(lambda () (alert "A new request has arrived!")))