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GitHub Hookshot

GitHub's webhooks for events like push, pull request, etc.
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What is GitHub Hookshot?

GitHub Hookshot is GitHub's webhook service. GitHub's webhooks for events like push, pull request, etc.

GitHub Hookshot is part of an event-delivery pipeline rather than an AI crawler, so it has little direct bearing on AI search. Knowing its signature still helps you separate legitimate callbacks from unexpected automated traffic in your logs.

Like any automated client, GitHub Hookshot consumes crawl budget and appears in your server and CDN logs. Reviewing those logs alongside your robots.txt rules helps you keep automated traffic deliberate and easy to reason about.

Want to see every AI bot hitting your site? Promptwatch turns your server and CDN logs into a live view of AI crawler and agent traffic, so you can watch ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and others crawl your pages and connect those visits to real citations and revenue. Learn more in AI crawler logs.

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How to handle GitHub Hookshot

Whether to allow GitHub Hookshot depends on whether you rely on the service behind it. Use a robots.txt rule to allow or disallow it.

To control GitHub Hookshot, add a rule for its user agent to your robots.txt:

User-agent: GitHubHookshot
Disallow: /

Replace the user-agent token above with the exact string GitHub Hookshot sends, check the operator's documentation, since display names and user-agent tokens can differ.

GitHub Hookshot generally honors robots.txt directives.

Examples

  • GitHub Hookshot delivers a real-time callback to a configured endpoint when a tracked event occurs.
  • An engineer verifies the source of incoming GitHub Hookshot requests before processing the payload.

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GitHub Hookshot is operated by GitHub. It functions as GitHub's webhook service.

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