Your own private RequestBin

Originally Created by Jeff Lindsay. Previously publicly hosted as https://requestb.in

Inspect HTTP requests. Debug webhooks.

TODO intro

Looking to self-host?

Deploy your own instance using Heroku

Create a Heroku account if you haven't, then grab the RequestBin source using git:

git clone git://github.com/AubreyHewes/requestbin.git

From the project directory, create a Heroku application:

heroku create

Add Heroku's redis addon:

heroku addons:add heroku-redis

Set an environment variable to indicate production:

heroku config:set REALM=prod

Now just deploy via git:

git push heroku master

It will push to Heroku and give you a URL that your own private RequestBin will be running.

Deploy your own instance using Dokku

Will use Dokku Dockerfile deployment

git clone git://github.com/AubreyHewes/requestbin.git`

Create a Dokku application:

dokku apps:create requestbin
dokku config:set DOKKU_PROXY_PORT_MAP="http:80:8000" # fix the port

Link in a redis container:

dokku redis:create requestbin
dokku redis:link requestbin requestbin

Set an environment variable to indicate production:

dokku config:set requestbin REALM=prod

Now just deploy via git:

git push dokku master

Deploy your own instance using Docker

On the server/machine you want to host this, you'll first need a machine with docker and docker-compose installed, then grab the RequestBin source using git:

git clone git://github.com/AubreyHewes/requestbin.git

Go into the project directory and then build and start the containers

sudo docker-compose build
sudo docker-compose up -d

Your own private RequestBin will be running on this server.

Configuration

You can configure the runtime via environment variables

Key	Description
SESSION_SECRET_KEY	Set to a unique value; default is untrusted; so set this in production
BIN_TTL	The TTL of a bin. Set to an int value in hours; default 48
MAX_REQUESTS	A bin will keep the last MAX_REQUESTS requests made. Set to an int value; default 20
MAX_RAW_SIZE	Set to an int value in bytes: default 10240
MAX_JSON_TO_PRETTYPARSE_IN_BYTES	Set to an int value in bytes: default 307200
BUGSNAG_KEY	Set your BugSnag key
REDIS_URL	Set your REDIS_URL
ENABLE_CORS	Enable CORS
CORS_ORIGINS	Set CORS origins; default * if ENABLE_CORS
ROOT_URL	Set your ROOT_URL without PORT (superfluous; not used anywhere)
PORT	Set listening port; default 8000 (Fixed at 8000 in docker/dokku)
DEBUG	Display some debug output; default False in prod and True in local

Contributors

• Barry Carlyon barry@barrycarlyon.co.uk
• Jeff Lindsay progrium@gmail.com
• https://github.com/AubreyHewes/requestbin/graphs/contributors