Webhooks for Nextcloud

This app allows a Nextcloud instance to notify external systems via HTTP POST requests whenever an event of a given type occurs.

Features:

Sending webhook notifications to URLs specified on per-event type basis (11 event types supported as of the current version)
Authenticating outgoing POST requests with SHA256 signatures
Sending webhook notifications as a Flow action
Outgoing requests are sent in a fire-and-forget (exec(curl &)) manner in order not to block the thread execution

Requirements

Nextcloud version 25-26
Ability to exec(curl) from a PHP script

Usage

This app is published in the Nextcloud App Store. Alternatively, it can be installed manually by grabbing the release .tar.gz archive, unpacking it in the apps folder of your Nextcloud instance and activating the app in the Admin UI.

When active, the App status is reported in Settings > Administration > Security > (scroll down to) Webhooks.

Event-based outgoing Webhooks

In order to enable webhooks for a given event type, you have to provide the target URL with the config key corresponding the a given event in your config file. Example (User Logged In Event):

  'webhooks_user_logged_in_url' => 'https://your-service.tld/hooks/user-logged-in',

Flow-based outgoing Webhooks

Aside from listening for specific events, this app also supports sending HTTP POST notifications triggered by a Flow defined by the admin with a specified endpoint URL.

With the example Flow listed above being active, when a new a new PDF file is uploaded, name of which matches report, a POST request is sent to the specified URL with the following payload:

{
  eventType: 'OCA\\WorkflowEngine\\Entity\\File',
  eventName: '\\OCP\\Files::postCreate',
  node: {
    id: 354,
    storage: {
      mountPoint: '/admin/',
      cache: null,
      scanner: {},
      watcher: null,
      propagator: null,
      updater: {}
    },
    path: '/admin/files/report-1234.pdf',
    internalPath: 'files/report-1234.pdf',
    modifiedTime: 1631793637,
    size: 1642,
    Etag: '6a8a183a68f22455d7a561d8e3d1f6b9',
    mimeType: 'application/pdf',
    permissions: 27,
    isUpdateable: true,
    isDeletable: true,
    isShareable: true
  },
  workflowFile: {
    displayText: 'admin created report-1234.pdf',
    url: 'http://localhost:8080/index.php/f/354'
  }
}

Example notification payloads for other Flow event types are listed here.

Authenticating requests

If the Nextcloud instance and the service responsible for receiving incoming webhook notifications are to communicate over public internet, it is important to provide a secret key used for signing the notifications in order to protect the receiving service from spoofing attacks. This app allows you to define webhooks_secret in your Nextcloud config.php like so:

  'webhooks_secret' => 'yoursecret1234',

Once the secret is defined, all outgoing webhook notifications will contain a signature in the X-Nextcloud-Webhooks HTTP header. The signature is calculated by performing a SHA256 function on the POST request raw body concatenated with the secret defined earlier.

Below is a minimal example of a Node.js Express app (with body-parser) validating incoming webhook notification signature:

const express = require("express");
const app = express();
const bodyParser = require('body-parser');
const crypto = require('crypto');

app.use(bodyParser.json({
  verify: function(req, res, buf, encoding) {
        req.rawBody = buf.toString();
    }
}))

app.post('/login-failed', (req, res) => {
  var hash = crypto.createHash('sha256');
  hash.update(req.rawBody + "yoursecret1234");
  var expected = hash.digest('hex');
  var obtained = req.get('X-Nextcloud-Webhooks');

  console.log("expected: ", expected);
  console.log("obtained: ", obtained);

  if (expected === obtained) {
    // request signature is VALID
    console.log(req.body);
  } else {
    // request signature is INVALID
  }

  res.status(200);
})

app.listen(3000, () => { console.log("Server started.") })

Available events

Calendar Object Created

Fires whenever a calendar event is created.

Config name: webhooks_calendar_object_created_url

Notification payload:

{
  calendarId: 2,
  calendarData: {
    id: '2',
    uri: 'personal',
    principaluri: 'principals/users/admin',
    // [...]
    '{http://apple.com/ns/ical/}calendar-order': '0',
    '{http://apple.com/ns/ical/}calendar-color': '#795AAB',
    '{http://nextcloud.com/ns}deleted-at': null,
    '{http://nextcloud.com/ns}owner-displayname': 'admin'
  },
  shares: [],
  objectData: {
    id: '1',
    uri: '399C189E-CCA6-4F67-AC67-35A9B53B51EB.ics',
    lastmodified: '1633198361',
    etag: '"58731caeaf6c998ca2dbcf5d83af756a"',
    calendarid: '2',
    size: 901,
    calendardata: 'BEGIN:VCALENDAR\r\n' +
      'VERSION:2.0\r\n' +
      'CALSCALE:GREGORIAN\r\n' +
      'PRODID:-//IDN nextcloud.com//Calendar app 2.2.2//EN\r\n' +
      'BEGIN:VTIMEZONE\r\n' +
      // [...] more data in iCal format
      'END:VEVENT\r\n' +
      'END:VCALENDAR\r\n',
    component: 'vevent',
    classification: 0
  },
  eventType: 'OCA\\DAV\\Events\\CalendarObjectCreatedEvent'
}

Calendar Object Updated

Fires whenever a calendar event is edited (including meeting participant accepting/declining invitations).

Config name: webhooks_calendar_object_updated_url

Notification payload:

{
  calendarId: 2,
  calendarData: {
    id: '2',
    uri: 'personal',
    principaluri: 'principals/users/admin',
    // [...]
    '{http://apple.com/ns/ical/}calendar-order': '0',
    '{http://apple.com/ns/ical/}calendar-color': '#795AAB',
    '{http://nextcloud.com/ns}deleted-at': null,
    '{http://nextcloud.com/ns}owner-displayname': 'admin'
  },
  shares: [],
  objectData: {
    id: '1',
    uri: '399C189E-CCA6-4F67-AC67-35A9B53B51EB.ics',
    lastmodified: '1633198361',
    etag: '"58731caeaf6c998ca2dbcf5d83af756a"',
    calendarid: '2',
    size: 901,
    calendardata: 'BEGIN:VCALENDAR\r\n' +
      'VERSION:2.0\r\n' +
      'CALSCALE:GREGORIAN\r\n' +
      'PRODID:-//IDN nextcloud.com//Calendar app 2.2.2//EN\r\n' +
      'BEGIN:VTIMEZONE\r\n' +
      // [...] more data in iCal format
      'END:VEVENT\r\n' +
      'END:VCALENDAR\r\n',
    component: 'vevent',
    classification: 0
  },
  eventType: 'OCA\\DAV\\Events\\CalendarObjectUpdatedEvent'
}

Calendar Object Moved to Trash

Fires whenever a calendar event is soft-deleted (moved to trash).

Config name: webhooks_calendar_object_moved_to_trash_url

Notification payload:

{
  calendarId: 30,
  calendarData: {
    id: '2',
    uri: 'personal',
    principaluri: 'principals/users/admin',
    // [...]
    '{http://apple.com/ns/ical/}calendar-order': '0',
    '{http://apple.com/ns/ical/}calendar-color': '#795AAB',
    '{http://nextcloud.com/ns}deleted-at': null,
    '{http://nextcloud.com/ns}owner-displayname': 'admin'
  },
  shares: [],
  objectData: {
    id: '118',
    uri: 'E855AF90-4A9B-4223-95E1-1FE700C4BDC0.ics',
    lastmodified: '1660572955',
    etag: '"79c725344d04a73b9bad1addee500bcf"',
    calendarid: '30',
    size: 748,
    calendardata: 'BEGIN:VCALENDAR\r\n' +
      'CALSCALE:GREGORIAN\r\n' +
      'VERSION:2.0\r\n' +
      'PRODID:-//IDN nextcloud.com//Calendar app 3.3.1//EN\r\n' +
      'BEGIN:VEVENT\r\n' +
      // [...] more data in iCal format
      'END:VTIMEZONE\r\n' +
      'END:VCALENDAR',
    component: 'vevent',
    classification: 0
  },
  eventType: 'OCA\\DAV\\Events\\CalendarObjectMovedToTrashEvent'
}

Calendar Object Deleted

Fires whenever a calendar event is permanently deleted (i.e. deleted from the trashbin).

Config name: webhooks_calendar_object_deleted

Notification payload:

{
  calendarId: 30,
  calendarData: {
    id: '30',
    uri: 'test',
    principaluri: 'principals/users/admin',
    // [...]
    '{http://apple.com/ns/ical/}calendar-order': 0,
    '{http://apple.com/ns/ical/}calendar-color': '#499AA2',
    '{http://nextcloud.com/ns}deleted-at': null,
    '{http://nextcloud.com/ns}owner-displayname': 'admin'
  },
  shares: [],
  objectData: {
    id: '118',
    uri: 'E855AF90-4A9B-4223-95E1-1FE700C4BDC0-deleted.ics',
    lastmodified: '1660572955',
    etag: '"79c725344d04a73b9bad1addee500bcf"',
    calendarid: '30',
    size: 748,
    calendardata: 'BEGIN:VCALENDAR\r\n' +
      'CALSCALE:GREGORIAN\r\n' +
      'VERSION:2.0\r\n' +
      'PRODID:-//IDN nextcloud.com//Calendar app 3.3.1//EN\r\n' +
      'BEGIN:VEVENT\r\n' +
      // [...] more data in iCal format
      'END:VTIMEZONE\r\n' +
      'END:VCALENDAR',
    component: 'vevent',
    classification: 0
  },
  eventType: 'OCA\\DAV\\Events\\CalendarObjectDeletedEvent'
}

Login Failed

Fires whenever a login attempt with an existing username fails.

Config name: webhooks_login_failed_url

Notification payload:

{
  userId: 'admin',
  eventType: 'OCP\\Authentication\\Events\\LoginFailedEvent'
}

Password Updated

Fires whenever user's password is changed.

Config name: webhooks_password_updated_url

Notification payload:

{
  user: {
    id: 'jdoe',
    displayName: 'John Doe',
    lastLogin: 0,
    home: '/home/nextcloud/data/jdoe',
    emailAddress: 'jdoe@example.com',
    cloudId: 'jdoe@yourcloud.tld',
    quota: '5 GB'
  },
  eventType: 'OCP\\User\\Events\\PasswordUpdatedEvent'
}

Share Created

Fires whenever a new share is created.

Config name: webhooks_share_created_url

Notification payload:

{
  id: '1',
  fullId: 'ocinternal:1',
  nodeId: 7,
  nodeType: 'file',
  shareType: 3,
  sharedWith: null,
  sharedWithDisplayName: null,
  sharedWithAvatar: null,
  permissions: 17,
  status: 0,
  note: '',
  expirationDate: null,
  label: '',
  sharedBy: 'admin',
  shareOwner: 'admin',
  token: '7qSPknbEjeHAzgJ',
  target: '/welcome.txt',
  shareTime: {
    date: '2021-06-20 14:23:18.000000',
    timeinzone_type: 3,
    timezone: 'UTC'
  },
  mailSend: true,
  hideDownload: false,
  eventType: 'OCP\\Share\\Events\\ShareCreatedEvent'
}

User Changed

Fires whenever a user account is edited. Includes values before and after edit.

Config name: webhooks_user_changed_url

Notification payload:

{
  user: {
    id: 'jdoe',
    displayName: 'John Doe',
    lastLogin: 0,
    home: '/home/nextcloud/data/jdoe',
    emailAddress: 'jdoe@example.com',
    cloudId: 'jdoe@yourcloud.tld',
    quota: '5 GB'
  },
  feature: 'quota',
  value: '5 GB',
  oldValue: 'default',
  eventType: 'OCP\\User\\Events\\UserChangedEvent'
}

User Created

Fires whenever a new user is created.

Config name: webhooks_user_created_url

Notification payload:

{
  user: {
    id: 'admin',
    displayName: 'Jane Doe',
    lastLogin: 1624203500,
    home: '/home/nextcloud/data/admin',
    emailAddress: null,
    cloudId: 'admin@yourcloud.tld',
    quota: 'none'
  },
  loginName: 'admin',
  isTokenLogin: false,
  eventType: 'OCP\\User\\Events\\UserLoggedInEvent'
}

User Deleted

Fires whenever a user account is deleted.

Config name: webhooks_user_deleted_url

Notification payload:

{
  user: {
    id: 'jdoe',
    displayName: 'John Doe',
    lastLogin: 0,
    home: '/home/nextcloud/data/jdoe',
    emailAddress: null,
    cloudId: 'jdoe@yourcloud.tld',
    quota: 'none'
  },
  eventType: 'OCP\\User\\Events\\UserDeletedEvent'
}

User Live Status Updated

Fires whenever user's live status is updated to online (happens when user navigates between apps and doesn't necessarily indicate that the status changed).

Config name: webhooks_user_status_url

{
  user: {
    id: 'admin',
    displayName: 'Jane Doe',
    lastLogin: 1631198561,
    home: '/home/nextcloud/data/admin',
    emailAddress: null,
    cloudId: 'admin@yourcloud.tld',
    quota: 'none'
  },
  status: 'online',
  timestamp: 1633198561,
  eventType: 'OCP\\User\\Events\\UserLiveStatusEvent'
}

User Logged In

Fires whenever a user logs in successfully.

Config name: webhooks_user_logged_in_url

Notification payload:

{
  user: {
    id: 'admin',
    displayName: 'Jane Doe',
    lastLogin: 1624203500,
    home: '/home/nextcloud/data/admin',
    emailAddress: null,
    cloudId: 'admin@yourcloud.tld',
    quota: 'none'
  },
  loginName: 'admin',
  isTokenLogin: false,
  eventType: 'OCP\\User\\Events\\UserLoggedInEvent'
}

User Logged Out

Fires whenever a user logs out successfully.

Config name: webhooks_user_logged_out_url

Notification payload:

{
  user: {
    id: 'admin',
    displayName: 'Jane Doe',
    lastLogin: '1624203500',
    home: '/home/nextcloud/data/admin',
    emailAddress: null,
    cloudId: 'admin@yourcloud.tld',
    quota: 'none'
  },
  eventType: 'OCP\\User\\Events\\UserLoggedOutEvent'
}

Flow events

File created

{
  eventType: 'OCA\\WorkflowEngine\\Entity\\File',
  eventName: '\\OCP\\Files::postCreate',
  node: {
    id: 75,
    storage: {
      mountPoint: '/admin/',
      cache: null,
      scanner: {},
      watcher: null,
      propagator: null,
      updater: {}
    },
    path: '/admin/files/test2.pdf',
    internalPath: 'files/test2.pdf',
    modifiedTime: 1633196032,
    size: 1642,
    Etag: '97e0c8f490acb83e9b94f9c9e8eeb280',
    mimeType: 'application/pdf',
    permissions: 27,
    isUpdateable: true,
    isDeletable: true,
    isShareable: true
  },
  workflowFile: {
    displayText: 'admin created test2.pdf',
    url: 'http://localhost:8000/index.php/f/75'
  }
}

File updated

{
  eventType: 'OCA\\WorkflowEngine\\Entity\\File',
  eventName: '\\OCP\\Files::postWrite',
  node: {
    id: 128,
    storage: {
      cache: null,
      scanner: {},
      watcher: null,
      propagator: null,
      updater: {}
    },
    path: '/admin/files/test-file.txt',
    internalPath: 'files/test-file.txt',
    modifiedTime: 1647687121,
    size: 9,
    Etag: '914a2364bc8786dcb2a3b74889f692f5',
    mimeType: 'text/plain',
    permissions: 27,
    isUpdateable: true,
    isDeletable: true,
    isShareable: true
  },
  workflowFile: {
    displayText: 'admin modified test-file.txt',
    url: 'http://localhost:8000/index.php/f/128'
  }
}

File renamed

{
  eventType: 'OCA\\WorkflowEngine\\Entity\\File',
  eventName: '\\OCP\\Files::postRename',
  node: {
    id: 75,
    storage: {
      mountPoint: '/admin/',
      cache: null,
      scanner: {},
      watcher: null,
      propagator: null,
      updater: {}
    },
    path: '/admin/files/test2.pdf',
    internalPath: 'files/test2.pdf',
    modifiedTime: 1633196032,
    size: 1642,
    Etag: '97e0c8f490acb83e9b94f9c9e8eeb280',
    mimeType: 'application/pdf',
    permissions: 27,
    isUpdateable: true,
    isDeletable: true,
    isShareable: true
  },
  workflowFile: {
    displayText: 'admin renamed test2.pdf',
    url: 'http://localhost:8000/index.php/f/75'
  }
}

File copied

{
  eventType: 'OCA\\WorkflowEngine\\Entity\\File',
  eventName: '\\OCP\\Files::postCopy',
  node: {
    id: 80,
    storage: {
      mountPoint: '/admin/',
      cache: null,
      scanner: {},
      watcher: null,
      propagator: null,
      updater: {}
    },
    path: '/admin/files/test2 (copy).pdf',
    internalPath: 'files/test2 (copy).pdf',
    modifiedTime: 1647686658,
    size: 1642,
    Etag: '3ce44278e289299fa8e6a27f05b7f54e',
    mimeType: 'application/pdf',
    permissions: 27,
    isUpdateable: true,
    isDeletable: true,
    isShareable: true
  },
  workflowFile: {
    displayText: 'admin copied test2 (copy).pdf',
    url: 'http://localhost:8000/index.php/f/80'
  }
}

File deleted

{
  eventType: 'OCA\\WorkflowEngine\\Entity\\File',
  eventName: '\\OCP\\Files::postDelete',
  node: {
    id: 75,
    storage: {
      mountPoint: '/admin/',
      cache: null,
      scanner: {},
      watcher: null,
      propagator: null,
      updater: {}
    },
    path: '/admin/files/test2.pdf',
    internalPath: 'files/test2.pdf',
    modifiedTime: 1633196032,
    size: 1642,
    Etag: '97e0c8f490acb83e9b94f9c9e8eeb280',
    mimeType: 'application/pdf',
    permissions: 27,
    isUpdateable: true,
    isDeletable: true,
    isShareable: true
  },
  workflowFile: {
    displayText: 'admin deleted test2.pdf',
    url: 'http://localhost:8000/index.php/f/75'
  }
}

Tag assigned

{
  eventType: 'OCA\\WorkflowEngine\\Entity\\File',
  eventName: 'OCP\\SystemTag\\ISystemTagObjectMapper::assignTags',
  mapperEvent: {
    eventName: 'OCP\\SystemTag\\ISystemTagObjectMapper::assignTags',
    objectType: 'files',
    objectId: '75',
    tags: [ '1' ]
  },
  workflowFile: {
    displayText: 'admin assigned test-tag to test2.pdf',
    url: 'http://localhost:8000/index.php/f/75'
  }
}

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Webhooks for Nextcloud

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Event-based outgoing Webhooks

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Authenticating requests

Available events

Calendar Object Created

Calendar Object Updated

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Calendar Object Deleted

Login Failed

Password Updated

Share Created

User Changed

User Created

User Deleted

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Webhooks for Nextcloud

Requirements

Usage

Event-based outgoing Webhooks

Flow-based outgoing Webhooks

Authenticating requests

Available events

Calendar Object Created

Calendar Object Updated

Calendar Object Moved to Trash

Calendar Object Deleted

Login Failed

Password Updated

Share Created

User Changed

User Created

User Deleted

User Live Status Updated

User Logged In

User Logged Out

Flow events

File created

File updated

File renamed

File copied

File deleted

Tag assigned