> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.webhook.co/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# What webhook.co is

> A plain-English introduction to webhook.co — a permanent, signed URL that captures, inspects, replays, and delivers your webhooks.

**webhook.co gives you a permanent web address that catches webhooks and keeps them safe.** Point any
service at it, and every request that service sends is captured the instant it arrives — so you can
look at it, prove it's genuine, replay it, and forward it wherever you need.

## What's a webhook, quickly

A webhook is a message one service sends to another when something happens — a payment succeeded, a
pull request opened, an order shipped. The sending service (Stripe, GitHub, Shopify, and so on) makes
an HTTP request to a URL you gave it. The catch: you have to run something at that URL, all the time,
that receives the message correctly. That's the part webhook.co handles for you.

## What it does

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  <Card title="Captures every request" icon="inbox-in">
    You get a permanent URL (`https://wbhk.my/…`). Every request sent to it is written down
    immediately — before anything else happens — so a bad signature or a downstream outage never
    costs you the message.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Verifies it's genuine" icon="shield-check">
    Register a provider's signing secret once and each incoming request is checked automatically
    across [142 providers](/providers/directory) — no verification code for you to write or get
    wrong.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Lets you inspect and replay" icon="magnifying-glass">
    See the full payload of any captured request in the dashboard, and replay it — to your laptop,
    or to your live service — instead of asking the sender to try again.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Delivers it onward" icon="paper-plane">
    Forward events to your own service with automatic retries and dead-lettering, so a brief blip on
    your side doesn't drop messages.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## Who it's for

* **Developers** integrating a provider's webhooks who want inspection, local replay, and reliable
  delivery without building the plumbing themselves.
* **Teams** who need a shared, private place to see what a provider actually sent and when.
* **Agents and automations** that consume webhooks over [MCP](/mcp/overview).

## How to use it

Everything works the same way whether you prefer clicking, scripting, or code: the
**dashboard**, the **`wbhk` CLI**, the **API**, and **MCP** are four ways into one product. Nothing is
public unless you choose to share it.

Ready to try it? [Create an account](/help/getting-started/create-an-account), then follow the
[Quickstart](/quickstart). Want the deeper technical picture first? See
[how webhook.co works](/concepts/how-webhook-co-works).