How to Integrate JetBrains YouTrack and Discord Webhooks

Since our team decided to move to Discord, we wanted to receive updates on our tasks’ states in one place. In this article we will discuss a way to setup YouTrack integration with Discord via custom Rules and Webhooks.

Discord Setup

Webhook

To create a Webhook for your server, go to Server Settings > Integrations > Webhooks > New Webhook. Give it a name, upload picture and choose a channel where new Webhook would send messages.

Discord Webhook creation

Copy Webhook URL and store it. Later on we will use it in our YouTrack rule to send messages.

YouTrack setup

Workflow

For purposes of this article we will create a new Workflow. Workflows are global in your space and are assigned to Projects separately. Go to Settings > Workflows, click New workflow and choose JavaScript Editor. Give it a name and a title.

YouTrack new workflow creation

Rules

Now to create our custom Rule. In the list of available Workflows click on newly created Workflow, in the right menu click Edit workflow and it will bring you to the Workflow editor.

Click On-change button to create a new Rule, give it a name. Click Save button and it will open new rule editor.

YouTrack workflow rule

Configuring a rule

Let us write a Rule that will send message to our Discord Webhook when a new Issue is posted.

Start with giving a descriptive title for your Rule. Something like “Sends message when new issue is created” will do.

Now, import required packages: entities and http.

const entities = require(‘@jetbrains/youtrack-scripting-api/entities’);
const http = require(‘@jetbrains/youtrack-scripting-api/http’);

We want to send messages when new Issues are posted, not just when a new draft is created. To do so, we must write a simple guard:

const issue = ctx.issue;
return issue.becomesReported;

Now we need to write a simple action to send a message to our Webhook.

const connection = new http.Connection({webhookUrl}, null, 2000);
connection.addHeader(‘Content-Type’, ‘application/json’);

connection.postSync(‘’, null, JSON.stringify({ content: 'New issue is created' }));

Click Save in top-right corner or press Ctrl-S (Cmd-S) to save a rule.

Assigning Workflows to Projects

As I wrote earlier, Workflows are global in your space and are assigned to Projects separately. Go to Projects > {Your project} > Workflows. Click Attach workflows and select our newly created Workflow from the list. In the right panel make sure “Our module” is active.

YouTrack workflow setting

You have assigned a new Workflow to your project! Now, when a change applied to an Issue, YouTrack will go trough all of the Rules and perform described action if guard returns true.

Now go and try to create a new Isue!