n8n-nodes-eventdock

Make your n8n webhook triggers reliable. This community node turns EventDock into a webhook source for n8n: raw provider webhooks hit EventDock first, where they are buffered, retried, and de-duplicated, and only clean, reliable events are delivered into your workflow.

EventDock is a webhook reliability layer. It receives your incoming webhooks at a stable ingest URL, retries failed deliveries with exponential backoff (up to 7 attempts over several hours), de-duplicates repeats, parks permanent failures in a Dead Letter Queue, and forwards successful events to a destination you configure. Free tier: 5,000 events/month — sign up.

Why use this instead of n8n's built-in Webhook node?

A plain n8n Webhook node receives the provider's request once. If your n8n instance is briefly down, mid-deploy, rate-limited, or the execution errors, that event is gone — most providers retry only a few times, then drop it.

Put EventDock in front and you get:

| | Plain Webhook node | EventDock Trigger | |---|---|---| | Retries on n8n downtime | ❌ (provider's limited retries only) | ✅ up to 7 attempts over hours | | De-duplication of repeated deliveries | ❌ | ✅ | | Dead Letter Queue for permanent failures | ❌ | ✅ | | Signature verification (Stripe/Shopify/GitHub/Twilio) | manual | ✅ at the edge | | Replay a missed event | ❌ | ✅ from the EventDock dashboard |

How it works

When you activate a workflow containing the EventDock Trigger, the node automatically calls the EventDock API and creates an endpoint whose upstream destination is this workflow's n8n webhook URL:

Provider ──▶ EventDock ingest URL ──▶ (buffer · retry · de-dupe · DLQ) ──▶ n8n webhook URL ──▶ your workflow

1. Activate the workflow. The node creates an EventDock endpoint and logs/stores the ingest URL (e.g. https://api.eventdock.app/in/<endpointId>).
2. Configure that ingest URL in your provider (Stripe, Shopify, GitHub, Twilio, or any generic webhook source) instead of pointing it directly at n8n.
3. Every reliable delivery starts your workflow. The original payload is in body; EventDock metadata (event id, attempt number, whether it's a retry) is in eventdock.
4. Deactivate the workflow and the EventDock endpoint is cleaned up automatically.

Output shape

{
  "body":    { /* the original provider webhook payload */ },
  "headers": { /* original headers + X-EventDock-* */ },
  "query":   { /* query string params, if any */ },
  "eventdock": {
    "eventId": "V1StGXR8_Z5jdHi6B-myT",
    "attempt": 0,
    "ingestTimestamp": 1717000000000,
    "correlationId": null,
    "isRetry": false,
    "deliveredAt": "2026-06-09T12:00:00.000Z"
  }
}

Installation

On n8n Cloud / self-hosted (verified community node)

Once published and verified, install from Settings → Community Nodes and search for n8n-nodes-eventdock.

Manual (self-hosted, before publish)

# in your n8n custom extensions directory (~/.n8n/custom or N8N_CUSTOM_EXTENSIONS)
npm install n8n-nodes-eventdock

Credentials

Create an EventDock API credential:

• API Key — from the EventDock dashboard → Settings → API Keys (starts with evdk_). Get one free.
• API Base URL — defaults to https://api.eventdock.app. Only change for a self-hosted/staging EventDock.

Click Test to verify the key (it calls the read-only GET /v1/usage).

Node: EventDock Trigger

| Parameter | Description | |---|---| | Endpoint Name | Optional. Defaults to n8n · <workflow name>. | | Provider | generic (any source), or stripe / shopify / github / twilio to unlock edge signature verification and provider-aware de-dup. | | Signing Secret | Optional. For a known provider, EventDock verifies each signature before accepting & forwarding (rejects forgeries at the edge). |

Development

npm install
npm run build        # tsc + copy icons into dist/
npm run lint         # eslint-plugin-n8n-nodes-base checks
npm test             # offline unit tests of the API helpers (node --test)

The unit tests (tests/) exercise the core API-call logic — base-URL handling, the POST /v1/endpoints request shape, generic-vs-known provider body shaping, and the X-EventDock-* metadata parsing — without hitting the network.

Publishing (verified community node)

n8n requires verified community nodes to be published to npm via a GitHub Actions workflow with provenance. The workflow is already included at .github/workflows/publish.yml. These steps are intentionally NOT run automatically — they publish under the maintainer's npm/GitHub identity and must be done by a human.

1. Push this package to a GitHub repo named n8n-nodes-eventdock under the eventdock org (update repository in package.json if the name differs).

2. On npmjs.com → the package's Settings → Publish access → Trusted Publishers → Add a publisher, select GitHub Actions and enter:

   • repository owner: eventdock
   • repository name: n8n-nodes-eventdock
   • workflow name: publish.yml

   (Trusted Publishers uses OIDC, so no NPM_TOKEN secret is needed.)

3. Bump the version and tag a release:

   npm version 0.1.0
   git push --follow-tags

   The publish.yml workflow runs on the v* tag and executes npm publish --provenance --access public with id-token: write permission.

4. Submit the package for verification through the n8n Creator Portal. n8n fetches the provenance-signed package from npm for final vetting.

Verified-node constraints already satisfied

• Package name starts with n8n-nodes-.
• package.json includes the n8n-community-node-package keyword and an n8n attribute listing the credential and node.
• No runtime dependencies (n8n-workflow is a peer/dev dependency only) — verified nodes may not ship runtime deps.

License

MIT