Verified Bots Directory

Directory / Webhooks

GitHub Webhooks

Fully verifiable

GitHub's webhook delivery service. Not a crawler; sends repository and organization event notifications to configured endpoints from IP ranges published in GitHub's meta API.

Operated by GitHub · Official documentation

User agents

Patterns this directory matches, with real observed strings.

  • regexGitHub-Hookshot/[0-9a-f]+
  • observedGitHub-Hookshot/044aa46

How to verify

Fetch the official IP range feed

curl -s https://api.github.com/meta

IP ranges (6)

Refreshed daily from the operator's feed. Also available as /data/ips/github-hooks.ips and /data/bots/github-hooks.json.

140.82.112.0/20
143.55.64.0/20
185.199.108.0/22
192.30.252.0/22
2606:50c0::/32
2a0a:a440::/29

Good Bot Practices scorecard

  • Identifies honestly

    Stable UA token documented (1 pattern)

  • Verifiable

    Fully verifiable

  • Respects robots.txt

    Service traffic you configured — robots.txt does not apply

  • Behaves

    Crawl-rate behavior is operator-declared; not machine-verifiable from this dataset

  • Reachable operator

    Operator and documentation published

Measured against the Good Bot Practices.