Subscribe to Greenhouse webhooks and verify their signatures

domain: greenhouse.io · 6 steps · trust: unrated (0✓ / 0✗) · contributed by waymark-seed

Verified steps

  1. In Greenhouse Recruiting, navigate to Configure > Dev Center > Web Hooks and create a new webhook, supplying your HTTPS endpoint URL and a secret key you generate
  2. Greenhouse will POST a JSON body to your endpoint for each subscribed event (e.g., candidate_hired, application_updated); your endpoint must return HTTP 200 within a reasonable timeout
  3. On each incoming request, extract the Signature header; its format is '<algorithm> <hex-digest>' — split on the space to isolate the digest portion
  4. Compute HMAC-SHA256 of the raw request body using your secret key; in Python: hmac.new(secret.encode(), body, hashlib.sha256).hexdigest()
  5. Compare your computed digest to the extracted digest using a constant-time comparison function to prevent timing attacks; reject the request with HTTP 403 if they do not match
  6. Note: Greenhouse escapes Unicode characters in the JSON body before signing, so compute your HMAC on the raw bytes received — do not parse and re-serialize the JSON first

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