Webhook not working

Integrations & API
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I’m testing webhooks - Ghost and a node.js client both on localhost

Client tested - is OK:
curl -X POST http://localhost:3000/api/active/0
-H “Content-Type: application/json”
-d ‘{“event”:“test”}’

Response: {“data”:{“event”:“test”},“isActive”:“0”}

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DEBUG=ghost:services:webhooks node current/index.js

[2025-06-10 13:33:58] INFO Triggering webhook for “page.unpublished” with url “http://localhost:3000/api/active/0”
[2025-06-10 13:33:58] INFO [Webmention] Sending all webmentions for http://localhost:2368/p/
[2025-06-10 13:33:58] WARN Request to http://localhost:3000/api/active/0 failed because of: ECONNREFUSED.

Why ECONNREFUSED?
Because of “localhost”?

Thanks for help
Joe

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Yes, it’s related to localhost. ECONNREFUSED means the server rejected the connection. You might need to switch to using 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost because newer versions of node might resolve localhost to ::1 on linux-based systems

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You were right - with 127.0.0.1 it works!
Thank you!

But possible a bug - webhook is not triggered when I run “Unpublish”

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Only works if I edit the page and the click on the button “Unpublish”.

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It looks like you set up a “Page unpublished” webhook, but you’re unpublishing a post

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No, I unpublishing a page. But I can “Copy a link to post”.

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Bulk actions from the post list do not trigger webhooks. If you want to to run, you need to unpublish from within the post itself. (@vikaspotluri123 there’s some discussion over on github if you’re curious.)

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Lol I initially added “it could also be a bug in the Admin that’s labelling a page as a post” but I removed it because that was obviously a red herring :upside_down_face:

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Why is this a bulk action? I do “unpublish” always for a single post.
It’s the same for me as “unpublish from within the post”.

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Making any changes using the right-click menu is considered a bulk action, even if you select a single post. If you go to the post editor and click the unpublish button at the top-right of the page, that’s not a bulk action, and you should see the webhook delivered

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It is easier to do it via the right mouse menu.
It makes no difference to me whether you do it this way or that.
The webhook should always be triggered.
So I always have to think for myself …

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Agreed! That’s why I have an issue open on it.

I can push my WIP branch over to Github in case anyone wants to pick it up. I haven’t had time. [Edit: That assumes I can find my WIP branch. What the heck did I do???]

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