--- title: Turn Any Webhook into a Polling API | daily.dev description: A walkthrough shows how to convert webhooks from any provider into a pollable API using Svix Ingest and Polling Endpoints. It covers when polling beats... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/turn-any-webhook-into-a-polling-api-e4xczoxwx twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Turn Any Webhook into a Polling API | daily.dev og:description: A walkthrough shows how to convert webhooks from any provider into a pollable API using Svix Ingest and Polling Endpoints. It covers when polling beats... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/turn-any-webhook-into-a-polling-api-e4xczoxwx og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/e4xCzOxWX.png og:image:alt: Turn Any Webhook into a Polling API og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Turn Any Webhook into a Polling API **[Svix Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/svix)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A walkthrough shows how to convert webhooks from any provider into a pollable API using Svix Ingest and Polling Endpoints. It covers when polling beats webhooks (local testing, batched compliance storage), setting up a webhook receiver via Svix Ingest, creating a polling endpoint, and using iterators to fetch messages in order via API calls. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How do I turn a webhook from a provider like GitHub into a polling API? Send the webhook to a Svix Ingest source, then attach a Polling Endpoint destination to that source. Create an API key for the polling endpoint, call it with a bearer token, and use the returned iterator on subsequent calls to fetch all messages received since that point, in order. _daily.dev surfaces practical integration patterns like this for teams choosing between webhooks and polling._ ### Why would I poll for webhook events instead of receiving them in real time? Polling is preferable when testing webhooks locally, since it avoids exposing a public HTTP endpoint via tools like ngrok, and when you don't need real-time delivery, such as batching events once a day for compliance storage, which is often more cost efficient than processing each event as it arrives. _developers weighing webhook versus polling architectures can find similar trade-off breakdowns on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Polling or Webhooks](https://daily.dev/posts/polling-or-webhooks-fom6ptk1f) · System Design Codex · 3 upvotes · 0 comments - [The valley of webhooks](https://daily.dev/posts/the-valley-of-webhooks-6ekxclvor) · Hacker News · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Webhook vs API: The Difference That Finally Clicked for Me](https://daily.dev/posts/webhook-vs-api-the-difference-that-finally-clicked-for-me-cjwanwunj) · Medium · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#architecture](https://daily.dev/tags/architecture) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/turn-any-webhook-into-a-polling-api-e4xczoxwx) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Turn Any Webhook into a Polling API","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/turn-any-webhook-into-a-polling-api-e4xczoxwx","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/turn-any-webhook-into-a-polling-api-e4xczoxwx"},"datePublished":"2026-08-23T07:21:15.064Z","dateModified":"2026-08-23T07:26:07.449Z","description":"A walkthrough shows how to convert webhooks from any provider into a pollable API using Svix Ingest and Polling Endpoints. 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