Hook0 Python SDK

Send and verify webhooks, blocking or awaiting, on the standard library alone

The Python SDK for Hook0, the open source Webhooks-as-a-Service platform for SaaS applications. It sends events, declares the event types your application uses, verifies the signature of a webhook you receive, and calls every operation the API declares through generated, documented types.

It reaches the network, verifies signatures and decodes what the API answers with the standard library alone: urllib.request for the blocking client, asyncio for the awaiting one, hmac and hashlib for signatures. Installing it never drags a transitive dependency into an application that only wanted to send an event.

• Send events - under an ID the client mints, so a retry cannot duplicate one
• Declare event types - upsert the ones your application emits, in one call
• Verify signatures - HMAC-SHA256 over a bilateral clock window
• The whole API, typed - one class per schema, one exception per problem, one method per operation
• Bounded everywhere - attempts, backoff, timeouts, payload and answer, all yours to set
• Blocking or awaiting - the same surface, twice, with no dependency between them

pip install hook0-client

Python 3.11 or later. Hook0AsyncClient applies the same bounds, reads the same answers and retries for the same reasons; it awaits where the other waits, and hook0.generated.aio carries the same groups for an application that awaits.

from hook0 import Event, Hook0Client

client = Hook0Client(
    "https://app.hook0.com/api/v1",
    application_id,
    token,
)

event_id = client.send_event(
    Event(
        event_type="billing.invoice.paid",
        payload='{"invoice": "in_123"}',
        payload_content_type="application/json",
        labels={"environment": "production"},
    )
)

from hook0 import Hook0ClientError, verify_webhook_signature

try:
    verify_webhook_signature(
        request.headers["X-Hook0-Signature"],
        request.body,
        request.headers,
        subscription_secret,
        300,
    )
except Hook0ClientError:
    ...  # answer 400, and do not act on the delivery

The clock window is bilateral, so a delivery dated too far ahead is refused exactly like one dated too far behind, because a window that only looked backwards is one a sender widens by dating its own delivery in the future. A header the signature covers but the request did not carry is refused before any code is computed.

Every bound one send is held to is yours to set, and every one has a default.

Every default comes from clients/conformance/bounds.json, the corpus every Hook0 SDK reads. A number changed there fails every SDK still carrying the old one, so no two of them can bound different things.

The last three bound what the other end may cost you. A server that is broken or hostile can otherwise stream a head, a header or a body of any length into your process.

from hook0 import Hook0Client, Hook0ClientOptions, RetryPolicy

client = Hook0Client(
    "https://app.hook0.com/api/v1",
    application_id,
    token,
    Hook0ClientOptions(
        retry_policy=RetryPolicy(
            max_attempts=4,
            initial_backoff=0.1,
            max_backoff=2.0,
            max_total_delay=5.0,
        ),
        request_timeout=10.0,
        max_payload_bytes=1024 * 1024,
        max_response_bytes=8 * 1024 * 1024,
    ),
)

send_event sends every event under an ID it knows, either the one set on the event or a UUIDv7 it mints when the event carries none. Passing no ID does not mean the ID comes from Hook0. The value comes from the client, travels with the request, and is what send_event returns.

That is what makes a retry safe. Hook0 keys events on their ID, so a request repeated after a network failure or a server error ingests the event once rather than twice. Without a client-chosen ID, the repeated request would create a second event and deliver it to every subscriber.

Retrying is limited to what could end differently. A request that got no answer, a server error and an instance saying it is being reached faster than it accepts are all retried. A 429 naming a spent quota is not, because a quota clears when a plan changes or a day turns, and no send can wait for that. A Retry-After the answer carries is honoured, clamped to what is left of the delay budget. A retried request Hook0 answers with EventAlreadyIngested reports success, since an earlier attempt of that same send reached the API. The same answer to a first attempt is a genuine conflict, and is reported as an error.

created = client.upsert_event_types(
    [
        "billing.invoice.paid",
        "billing.invoice.voided",
    ]
)

Only the ones your application does not declare yet are created, and those are what comes back.

Every operation the API declares is a method of a generated group, one group per entity.

from hook0 import HttpTransport
from hook0.generated import ApplicationsApi
from hook0.generated.errors import NotFoundError

applications = ApplicationsApi(HttpTransport("https://app.hook0.com", token))

try:
    application = applications.get(application_id)
except NotFoundError:
    ...

clients/python/src/hook0/generated/ is written by hook0-sdkgen from the OpenAPI snapshot the API commits, and is rewritten whole on every regeneration. A hand edit there is reverted the next time anyone regenerates, and the drift guard says so before that. Change the generator, then run:

UPDATE_SDK=python cargo test -p hook0-sdkgen sdk_targets

Everything else under src/hook0/ is hand-written and never regenerated, and so is tests/.

What a send retries, the bounds it is held to and how a signature is verified are dictated by the shared corpus at clients/conformance, which every SDK's suite reads, so a verdict changed there fails this client until it agrees again.

Every case runs against a real Hook0 over a loopback socket. Nothing here stands in for a part of the client.

ruff format --check .
ruff check .
pytest -q

The Hook0 Python SDK is free and open source, released under the MIT License. Use it, change it, ship it, in open source and in commercial work alike, as long as the copyright notice travels with it.

Hook0 itself is open source too. Read what Hook0 is, visit hook0.com, join the community, or write to support@hook0.com.

Maintained by David Sferruzza and François-Guillaume Ribreau.