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Webhooks are a painful problem. To clarify, Stripe's events API definitely ships a cursor and polling it has been the method preferred by large consumers for a long time.

weliOP

Stripe events API is one of the examples of how to do things properly. And SCROLL is just trying to create a common spec so that everyone offers a stripe-like event polling api.

Yea I had the same thought: "It sounds like the Stripe events API would fulfill his needs." But then you said

Nobody serves this today. That’s the catch, and it’s also the point.

and I was left wondering what was missing.

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