Develop a webhook endpoint locally

Developing a webhook receiving endpoint and webhook verification can be tedious. To speed up the process of testing the changes to your code, you can use cloudflare tools to route webhooks to your local app.

This is a step by step guide to set up a tunnel to your local machine to receive webhooks in sandbox.

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We recommend you do this in the sandbox environment only

Ensure you're on sandbox

The sandbox environment gives access to the mock providers that TrueLayer develops only. All the values in the webhooks generated in the sandbox environment are safe to share. Avoid using these methods for production testing.

1. Download the cloudflared tool

Follow the guide here.

2. Create a tunnel

You can generate a public domain name and start a tunnel from that domain into your local machine.
You can pass your locally running app's address to the command and make sure cloudflared CLI command routes request to the generated public domain hits your local app.

cloudflared tunnel --url localhost:8080

After you run this command, the output will contain a section describing the public domain name cloudflared generated, which will look like following:

3. Configure your webhook endpoint for the sandbox

Click Settings under the Payments API section.

On the Settings page, change your Webhook URI to the domain generated with the cloudflared command.

In this example, any webhooks generated in the sandbox environment will now be routed through https://circular-amounts-galaxy-tubes.trycloudflare.com, to the address localhost:8080 on your machine. The Cloudflare URL changes each time you run the command on step 2.