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Get a Mac notification when a Vercel deployment finishes or fails

Vercel's webhooks post a JSON event with a type such as deployment.succeeded or deployment.error. One EventBar hook turns them into separate types with their own switches.

Needs: the free EventBar app on your Mac, an EventBar account, and a Vercel account with permission to add webhooks. About five minutes. Generic JSON.

Steps

1. Create the webhook URL. In the EventBar dashboard, open the Webhooks tab, pick the group this belongs to (one group per site or app is the usual shape), choose the provider Generic JSON, name it, and press Create. Copy the URL; it stays visible and can be rotated any time.
2. Paste it into Vercel. In Vercel: your team's Settings, then Webhooks, then Create Webhook. Pick the events (deployment created, succeeded, error, canceled) and paste the hook URL. Create the hook in EventBar as Generic JSON with type field type.
3. Trigger one. Most services offer a test delivery; otherwise do the real thing once. It shows up in the dashboard's Events tab within a second and in the menu bar, as an undefined type named after the event. That first one is your proof the wiring works.
4. Make it read well. Press Define on the new type and give it a title and a body template. Fields come from the payload, nested ones with dots. The table below is a starting point.

What you'll see

Every type has its own switch in the menu bar, so a noisy one can be quiet on this Mac and still counted. Counts cover the last hour, 24 hours, 7 days, 30 days and all time.

Worth knowing

• Vercel signs with x-vercel-signature, which the generic preset doesn't check. The URL is the secret.
• The link template https://{payload.url} opens the deployment from the notification.
• Mute deployment.created from the menu bar if you only want the outcome.

The full contract, including how each preset reads a payload and what the answers mean, is in the API docs. Something about Vercel's payload changed? Tell us and we'll fix the guide.