How to Filter, Mask, and Route Stripe Webhooks Without Writing Code

If you've ever built a Stripe integration, you know the pain: every webhook event hits your endpoint — even the ones you don't care about. charge.updated flooding your logs while you're only watching for payment_intent.succeeded . Sensitive card metadata sitting in plain text in your inspection logs. Fields named one thing in Stripe but something different in your database schema. Normally, solving this means writing middleware. A filter here, a field mask there, a rename transformer somewhere else. It's boilerplate — but it has to be written, tested, and maintained. I built a small feature into HookTest (a webhook testing and inspection tool) called Transform Rules that handles all three cases without writing any code. What Transform Rules Do When a webhook hits your HookTest endpoint, before the request is stored, you can apply a chain of rules in order: Filter — only capture requests where a JSON field matches a condition (equals, contains, starts with). Anything that doesn't match