github api does not return my post-receive web hook

Question

I have manually added a web hook to my repository, but when I query the repository using the API I get ``` { "message": "Not Found" } ``` what is wrong? the url: https://api.github.com/repos/akonsu/kamyanov-art.com/hooks/

Accepted Answer

First, don't put the extra '`/`' at the end. That will get you an message "`Not Found`" every time, authenticated or not.

Second, to add to Ivan's answer, you need to authenticate to access that information about a repo (public or private).

As mentioned in the "API Getting Started" page:

```
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found

{
    "message": "Not Found"
}
```

Oh noes! Where did it go? If you’re a grizzled HTTP user, you might expect a 403 instead. Since we don’t want to leak information about private repositories, the GitHub API returns a 404 in this case, as if to say “we can neither confirm nor deny the existence of this repository.”

That is why you see a "`Not Found`" here.

See issue 294

fwiw, I was scratching my head on this same issue trying to debug a hook, and the solution was to pass basic authentication on the request.

github api does not return my post-receive web hook

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