ClickUp Webhooks & Events

Overview

ClickUp webhooks send HTTP POST notifications when resources change. Register webhooks via API, subscribe to specific events, and receive payloads with history_items showing what changed.

Webhook Endpoints

POST   /api/v2/team/{team_id}/webhook    Create webhook
GET    /api/v2/team/{team_id}/webhook    Get webhooks
PUT    /api/v2/webhook/{webhook_id}      Update webhook
DELETE /api/v2/webhook/{webhook_id}      Delete webhook

Create a Webhook

async function createWebhook(teamId: string, endpoint: string, events: string[]) {
  return clickupRequest(`/team/${teamId}/webhook`, {
    method: 'POST',
    body: JSON.stringify({
      endpoint,        // Your HTTPS URL
      events,          // Array of event names
      space_id: null,  // Optional: limit to specific space
      folder_id: null, // Optional: limit to specific folder
      list_id: null,   // Optional: limit to specific list
      task_id: null,   // Optional: limit to specific task
    }),
  });
}

// Subscribe to task and list events
const webhook = await createWebhook('1234567', 'https://myapp.com/webhooks/clickup', [
  'taskCreated',
  'taskUpdated',
  'taskDeleted',
  'taskStatusUpdated',
  'taskAssigneeUpdated',
  'taskDueDateUpdated',
  'taskCommentPosted',
  'taskTimeTrackedUpdated',
  'listCreated',
  'listUpdated',
  'listDeleted',
]);

// Response:
// { "id": "wh_abc123", "webhook": { "id": "...", "endpoint": "...", "events": [...] } }

Available Events

Category	Events
Task	taskCreated, taskUpdated, taskDeleted, taskStatusUpdated, taskAssigneeUpdated, taskDueDateUpdated, taskTagUpdated, taskMoved, taskCommentPosted, taskCommentUpdated, taskTimeTrackedUpdated, taskTimeEstimateUpdated, taskPriorityUpdated
List	listCreated, listUpdated, listDeleted
Folder	folderCreated, folderUpdated, folderDeleted
Space	spaceCreated, spaceUpdated, spaceDeleted
Goal	goalCreated, goalUpdated, goalDeleted, keyResultCreated, keyResultUpdated, keyResultDeleted

Webhook Payload Format

{
  "event": "taskUpdated",
  "webhook_id": "wh_abc123",
  "task_id": "abc123",
  "history_items": [
    {
      "id": "hist_001",
      "type": 1,
      "date": "1695000000000",
      "field": "status",
      "parent_id": "abc123",
      "data": {},
      "source": null,
      "user": { "id": 183, "username": "john", "email": "john@example.com" },
      "before": { "status": "to do", "color": "#d3d3d3", "type": "open" },
      "after": { "status": "in progress", "color": "#4194f6", "type": "custom" }
    }
  ]
}

Webhook Handler (Express)

import express from 'express';

const app = express();
app.use(express.json());

app.post('/webhooks/clickup', async (req, res) => {
  const { event, webhook_id, task_id, history_items } = req.body;

  // Immediately acknowledge (ClickUp expects 200 within 30s)
  res.status(200).json({ received: true });

  // Process asynchronously
  try {
    await processClickUpEvent(event, task_id, history_items);
  } catch (err) {
    console.error(`Failed to process ${event} for task ${task_id}:`, err);
  }
});

async function processClickUpEvent(
  event: string,
  taskId: string,
  historyItems: any[]
) {
  switch (event) {
    case 'taskCreated':
      console.log(`New task: ${taskId}`);
      break;
    case 'taskStatusUpdated': {
      const change = historyItems[0];
      console.log(`Task ${taskId}: ${change.before.status} -> ${change.after.status}`);
      // Trigger downstream actions (e.g., notify Slack, update external system)
      break;
    }
    case 'taskCommentPosted':
      console.log(`New comment on task ${taskId}`);
      break;
    case 'taskTimeTrackedUpdated':
      console.log(`Time tracked updated on task ${taskId}`);
      break;
    default:
      console.log(`Unhandled event: ${event}`);
  }
}

Idempotency (Prevent Duplicate Processing)

const processedEvents = new Map<string, number>();

function isDuplicate(webhookId: string, historyItemId: string): boolean {
  const key = `${webhookId}:${historyItemId}`;
  if (processedEvents.has(key)) return true;
  processedEvents.set(key, Date.now());

  // Clean old entries every 1000 events
  if (processedEvents.size > 10000) {
    const cutoff = Date.now() - 3600000; // 1 hour
    for (const [k, v] of processedEvents) {
      if (v < cutoff) processedEvents.delete(k);
    }
  }
  return false;
}

List and Manage Webhooks

# List all webhooks for a workspace
TEAM_ID="1234567"
curl -s "https://api.clickup.com/api/v2/team/${TEAM_ID}/webhook" \
  -H "Authorization: $CLICKUP_API_TOKEN" | jq '.webhooks[] | {id, endpoint, events}'

# Delete a webhook
curl -s -X DELETE "https://api.clickup.com/api/v2/webhook/WH_ID" \
  -H "Authorization: $CLICKUP_API_TOKEN"

Error Handling

Issue	Cause	Solution
Webhook not firing	Endpoint not HTTPS	Webhooks require HTTPS URLs
Duplicate events	No idempotency	Track history_item IDs
Timeout (no 200)	Slow processing	Respond 200 immediately, process async
Webhook auto-disabled	Repeated failures	ClickUp disables after many 5xx responses

Prerequisites

• Authorized workspace webhook configuration and an HTTPS receiver
• Durable event ID/idempotency storage, queue, and redacted monitoring
• Defined event allow-list, retention policy, and incident escalation route

Instructions

Validate event scope and receiver configuration, persist an idempotency key before processing, acknowledge quickly only after durable receipt, and enqueue authorized work for asynchronous handling. Reject malformed or unauthorized requests safely; do not retry by registering duplicate webhooks or replaying unbounded event batches.

Output

Record event ID/type, workspace/resource scope, receipt and signature decision, idempotency result, queued job status, and redacted error/correlation data. Never log tokens, webhook endpoints, task descriptions, comments, or raw payloads beyond the policy-approved fields.

Examples

For a task-update event, write the event/history ID once, enqueue a normalized job, and return 200; a retry of that ID returns a safe acknowledgement without duplicate downstream work. If processing fails, leave the job in the reviewed queue/DLQ path and investigate instead of forcing ClickUp to redeliver forever.

Resources

• ClickUp Webhooks Guide
• Task Webhook Payloads
• List Webhook Payloads
• Create Webhook API

Next Steps

For performance optimization, see clickup-performance-tuning.