I hear it often, but what exactly is a "Webhook"? Clarifying the difference from APIs

"I think I understand APIs. But when Webhooks come up, I get confused again." This is written for people like you.To put it ...
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ChatGPT Work Adds Gmail Webhooks and Inbox Login: New Automation, New Attack Route

ChatGPT Work webhooks now fire instantly when Gmail, Slack, or GitHub events occur, shifting from scheduled polling to a standing OAuth inbox listener that formalizes the zero-click prompt injection ...

What are TradingView's "Alerts" and "Webhooks"? Explaining the mechanism of "signals" for automated trading for non-engineers

When I was setting up automated FX trading, the first things I encountered that made me go "?" were the terms Alerts and Webhooks.Both are mechanisms that frequently appear when doing automated ...
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Webhook vs. API: Which mechanism is better?

Developers frequently use webhooks and APIs to exchange data between modern applications and services. But webhooks and APIs move data in different ways. Depending on factors like the type of data ...