Overview

A webhook is a way for MinChat to notify your server in real-time when a specific event occurs.

When webhooks are enabled in the minchat dashboard, your server will receive HTTP POST requests from minchat servers notifying you about events that happen in your application between your users.

Webhook Events

MinChat supports the following webhook events

Message Sent

Is triggered when a message is sent by a user.

payload

{
   "sent_by":{
      "id":"639575b2c280a7001e892906",
      "name":"Samantha Smith",
      "username":"samantha",
      "avatar": "urltoavatar.com/mercyavatar.jpg"
   },
   "sent_to":[
      {
         "id":"289575b9b280a7001e892956",
         "name":"Jackie",
         "username":"jackie_01",
         "avatar": "urltoavatar.com/mercyavatar.jpg"
      }
   ],
   "chat_id": "63d3e12d669fc928b3d78f80",
   "text":"Hello guys!",
   "file": {
        type: "image",
        url: "https://urltofile.com/image.jpeg",
        "name": "Assignment Project",
        "size": "2 MB",
    },
    "metadata": {}
    "chat_metadata": {}
}

Field	Type	Description
sent_by	User	The user that sent the message
sent_to	User[]	An array of users that have received the message
text	string	The content of the message
file	File	A file attachment associated with this message
chat_id	string	The id of the conversation this message was sent to
metadata	json object	an optional key value pair for any additional message information.
chat_metadata	json object	an optional key value pair for any additional chat information.

New Daily Active User

Is triggered when there is a new daily active user.

{
      "id":"639575b2c280a7001e892906",
      "name":"Samantha Smith",
      "username":"samantha",
      "avatar": "urltoavatar.com/mercyavatar.jpg"
}

The payload is a User object