The full upstream README, mirrored here for reference. Install config, tool schemas, adoption signals, and an original overview live on the Webhook.site MCP Server listing page.
A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for webhook.site - instantly capture HTTP requests, emails, and DNS lookups. Perfect for testing webhooks, debugging API callbacks, security testing, and bug bounty hunting.
Security helper tools (SSRF, XSS, canary tokens) are for authorized testing only — systems you own or have explicit permission to test.
Use 3.0.0 or newer. 2.1.3 does not start on MCP 2.0; 3.0 renames a few tools (see Upgrading from 2.x).
Add to .vscode/mcp.json:
Add to .cursor/mcp.json (project) or your user MCP config:
Add to claude_desktop_config.json:
All settings are environment variables on the server process. Put them in the env block of your MCP client config.
| Variable | Purpose |
|---|---|
WEBHOOK_SITE_API_KEY | Your webhook.site API key. Makes new URLs permanent (your plan's quota) and unlocks list_webhooks, Custom Actions, Schedules, Global Variables, Groups, Queue Profiles, Templates, Databases, Users and CSV export |
WEBHOOK_SITE_DEFAULT_EXPIRY | Seconds until new URLs expire when the call does not pass expiry. Unset means permanent on a paid account (7 days for anonymous URLs) |
WEBHOOK_MCP_RATE_LIMIT_MAX_WAIT | When webhook.site answers 429 with a Retry-After up to this many seconds (default 15), the call waits and retries once; longer waits are reported as an error naming the wait |
FOLLOW_EMAIL_LINK_ALLOW_HOSTS | follow_email_link only opens links to public internet hosts, and connects to the address it checked (no DNS rebinding). To test a sign-up flow on your own machine or intranet, list what to allow: localhost,127.0.0.1,*.corp.example,10.0.0.0/8 |
HTTPS_PROXY / HTTP_PROXY / NO_PROXY | Honoured by follow_email_link. The proxy makes the connection, so the target is checked before the request instead of being pinned |
SSL_CERT_FILE / SSL_CERT_DIR | Custom CA bundle for follow_email_link, for corporate TLS interception |
If the request to a verification link completes and then redirects somewhere that is not allowed (a local dev server, an intranet dashboard), the tool reports that hop's status with the refused target in blocked_redirect instead of failing: the request that consumed the token already went through, whether or not the site counted it as verified.
Everything works without an account on anonymous 7-day URLs. With WEBHOOK_SITE_API_KEY set, URLs are permanent and the account tools unlock the features of your plan. Every webhook_token accepts the UUID, an alias, a pasted https://webhook.site/... URL or the inbox address. Full parameters for each tool: docs/TOOLS.md.
31 tools, generated from the server by scripts/gen_tool_docs.py.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
server_status | Check this server's setup: API key, account reachability, plan, real-time socket, env config. |
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
create_webhook | Create a disposable inbox to sign up on a website: HTTP URL, temp email, DNS. |
configure_webhook | Create a webhook with custom settings, or update one (pass webhook_token). |
get_webhook_info | Show a webhook's settings, expiry, request count and every address. |
get_webhook_email | Return the temp inbox to sign up, verify, magic-link, or reset a password. |
list_webhooks | List the webhooks (URLs / inboxes) in the account. Needs WEBHOOK_SITE_API_KEY. |
delete_webhook | Permanently delete a webhook and every captured request/email. |
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
send_requests | Send one JSON body (data) or several (payloads) to the webhook URL to test capture. |
get_webhook_requests | List captured HTTP, email, or DNS events for a webhook, one page at a time. |
search_requests | Search captured events by method, body text, headers, type, or date. |
get_request | Return one captured event: the newest by default, or request_id. |
update_request | Attach a note to a captured request, or set its dynamic response. |
download_request_file | Download an uploaded file or email attachment (base64) by its file_id. |
delete_request | Delete one captured HTTP, email, or DNS event by request id. |
delete_all_requests | Clear captured events on a webhook, optionally by date or search query. |
export_webhook_data | Full dump of captured events with HTML and untruncated bodies, as JSON or CSV. |
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
wait_for_request | Wait until a new HTTP (or DNS) callback hits the webhook (1-120s). |
wait_for_email | Wait for a sign-up, verify, magic-link, or password-reset email (1-120s). |
respond_to_next_request | Hold the next request that hits the webhook and answer it with your own status, headers and body. |
follow_email_link | Open the verify / magic-link / reset URL from a captured sign-up email. |
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
manage_custom_actions | Manage the Custom Actions webhook.site runs on every request or email a token receives. |
manage_schedules | Manage Schedules: webhook.site calls request_url on an interval (needs API key). |
manage_global_variables | Manage Global Variables shared by all URLs, usable as $name$ in Custom Actions and Schedules. |
manage_groups | Manage Groups that organise the account's webhooks (needs API key). |
manage_queues | Manage Queue Profiles that throttle queued Custom Actions (needs API key). |
manage_templates | Manage Templates: reusable sets of Custom Actions plus predefined variables (needs API key). |
manage_databases | Manage webhook.site Databases and run SQL against them (needs API key). |
manage_users | Manage team users on an Enterprise account (needs an administrator API key). |
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
generate_oob_payloads | Build authorized out-of-band payloads that ping this webhook: SSRF URLs, XSS callbacks, or canary tokens. |
check_for_callbacks | See if SSRF, XSS, or canary callbacks arrived in the last N minutes. |
extract_links_from_request | Pull confirm, reset, magic-link, and other URLs from a captured email or HTTP body. |
| 2.x tool | 3.0 replacement |
|---|---|
create_webhook_with_config, update_webhook | configure_webhook (pass webhook_token to update) |
get_webhook_url, get_webhook_dns | fields of get_webhook_info |
get_latest_request | get_request |
send_to_webhook, send_multiple_requests | send_requests (data or payloads) |
generate_ssrf_payload, generate_xss_callback, generate_canary_token | generate_oob_payloads (kind=ssrf|xss|canary, canary_type) |
create_webhook — get email ({token}@emailhook.site)wait_for_email — receive the message, confirm / login / reset URLs, and any OTPfollow_email_link to open a verify link, or type verification_codes on the siteIf you already have a token, get_webhook_email returns the same inbox.
| Endpoint | Format | Use Case |
|---|---|---|
| HTTP URL | https://webhook.site/{token} | Capture HTTP/HTTPS requests (any sub-path too) |
| Subdomain | https://{token}.webhook.site | Alternative URL format |
| Forced status | https://webhook.site/{token}/{status} | Answer with that status, for retry-logic tests |
{token}@emailhook.site | Capture incoming emails | |
| DNS | {token}.dnshook.site | Capture DNS lookups (every subdomain) |
| Page | Contents |
|---|---|
| docs/TOOLS.md | Every tool with parameters and hints, generated from the server |
| docs/webhook-site-notes.md | What webhook.site actually does, verified live, including where the official docs are wrong |
| docs/testing.md | The four test layers, recordings, verification scripts, model evals, account safety |
| docs/releasing.md | Version bumps, tagging, the publish workflow |
| CHANGELOG.md | Version history |
The offline suite replays real recorded webhook.site exchanges; the live tool check and the live / live_auth tiers hit the real API. Details in docs/testing.md.
Layout: server.py (entry point and lifespan), handlers/tools.py (tool registrations), services/ (one module per API area), utils/ (HTTP client, real-time socket, URL safety, references), scripts/ (live check, generators, verifiers), evals/ (model-in-the-loop prompts).
mcp >= 2.0.0httpx >= 0.26.0, httpcore >= 1.0.0, anyio >= 4.0.0python-socketio[asyncio_client] >= 5.11.0 (real-time waiting; the tools fall back to polling without it)Bug reports and PRs are welcome. Keep a PR to one change, add a test whose expectation was checked against the real API (see docs/testing.md), and run python scripts/gen_tool_docs.py after touching a tool.
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