[Feature Request] Webhooks for reactions on pull request review comments

[davidkwlam]

Our GitHub app listens for webhooks on pull request review comment activity (created, updated, deleted) to avoid polling the pull request API.

We'd like to receive similar webhooks for comment reactions to avoid polling the reactions API. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like a webhook exists for when someone adds a reaction.

Just off the top of my head, either one of these would work:

1. A new webhook event type for pull request review comment reactions
2. Send the existing pull_request_review_comment event when a reaction is added to or removed from a comment

Adding this would reduce the load on the API and I think many other developers would find it useful (here's a similar thread for issue comments).

Thanks!

[elviskahoro]

Huge +1. Articulation for why this is important: People add reactions to issues as a way of expressing interest. To my knowledge there isn't a way to query the list of people who've subscribed to an issue and so instead we ask folks to add an emoji. This is better than asking them to comment because for issues with a large amount of interest, when people comment: "+1" it spams the inboxes of those currently subscribed.

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[elviskahoro]

One other aspect of this is people often upvote an issue because they're interested in it. Up voting however doesn't automatically subscribe them to the issue and so if we were to later comment and close the issue they wouldn't know it's been fixed or closed unless they explicitly subscribed in addition to upvoting.

[chngl]

+1, are there any plans for the github team to build this out? Thanks.

[waltergalvao]

+1

[whoamitty]

+1 Me too I need it badly
for manage project
and automate move issue on Done
according to reactions

[SanjaySaatyaki]

+1 I too need this since i have automatic messages generated via Bots. To know whether those are really useful or not

[TrongBYM]

+1, we need this feature as well as we want to automate surveys and polls in our GitHub pull requests!

[jwarby]

+1, we were hoping to use a count of 👍 reactions to an auto-generated PR comment to trigger another workflow but it doesn't seem to be possible :( was hoping adding/removing a reaction would trigger issue_comment.edited

[pape98]

+1 This is badly needed :)

[dimmyjr-nu]

+1

[suptejas]

+1 - this is a critical webhook that would be extremely useful

[tanmayshishodia]

+1 - this is a very useful feature.

[ZIJ]

+1 much needed

[pape98]

Let's just give at this point. I sadly doubt they'll ever do this 😢 😞 .

[ldanilek]

+1

[zbrown001]

+1

[pTinosq]

+1

[thevolcanomanishere]

+1

[alexiscolonna]

• 1000 that's crazy than 3 years later it still not even planned on the roadmap.

Emojis reaction wehbooks could help githup app developers create way more interactive experience in Github.

[kyan-yang]

+1

[bracesproul]

+1

[jminuscula]

+1 We're building agentic workflows, and being able to ask for feedback easily and act on it quickly would be a huge improvement.

[BaherW]

+1

[AFMiziara]

+1

[The-MM]

+1

[shcherbachev]

+1

[tnm]

This is bonkers that this isn’t implemented.

I know exactly the stupid rails controller where this lives and how to enable this.

[pTinosq]

When the former CTO of GitHub leaves a comment like this on a feature request... damn

[elviskahoro]

@tnm ted you're probably our only hope lol I've brought this this up at like the last 3 GitHub universes

[Nzko-cyber]

Current State

Webhooks exist for comments (issue_comment, pull_request_review_comment, commit_comment, etc.), but not for reactions on those comments.

Adding/removing a reaction does not trigger any webhook.

This has been raised before in the GitHub community (including the thread you mentioned about issue comments), but so far there’s no official support.

[lannydee]

+100