---
title: "Trigger a test webhook"
method: POST
path: "/api/v4/projects/{id}/hooks/{hook_id}/test/{trigger}"
tags: ["hooks"]
---

# Trigger a test webhook

`POST /api/v4/projects/{id}/hooks/{hook_id}/test/{trigger}`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://gitlab.com`
- URL: `https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/{id}/hooks/{hook_id}/test/{trigger}`
- Auth: none declared

Triggers a test webhook. This endpoint has a rate limit of five requests per minute for each authenticated user for a given project or group. On GitLab Self-Managed and GitLab Dedicated, an administrator can change this limit in the application settings.

## Path parameters

- `hook_id` integer, required
- `trigger` 'confidential_issues_events' | 'confidential_note_events' | 'deployment_events' | 'emoji_events' | 'feature_flag_events' | 'issues_events' | 'job_events' | 'merge_requests_events' | 'milestone_events' | 'note_events' | 'pipeline_events' | 'push_events' | 'releases_events' | 'resource_access_token_events' | 'resource_deploy_token_events' | 'tag_push_events' | 'wiki_page_events' | 'vulnerability_events', required
- `id` integer, required

## Response `201`

Trigger a test webhook

## Other responses

- `400`: Bad request
- `403`: Forbidden
- `404`: Not found
- `422`: Unprocessable entity
- `429`: Too many requests

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[API](https://skmtc.dev/gitlab/apis/gitlab-api.md) - [All operations](https://skmtc.dev/gitlab/apis/gitlab-api/llms.txt) - [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc.dev/gitlab/apis/gitlab-api/revisions/b234947ef3f2?raw)