Parsing Raw Text

If you need the unprocessed string content of the request body—such as when verifying signatures for Stripe or GitHub webhooks—pass 'text' to ctx.body():

app.post("/webhook", async (ctx) => {
  const rawBody = (await ctx.body("text")) as string;
  const signature = ctx.headers["stripe-signature"];

  // Verify webhook signature with the raw string
  const isValid = verifySignature(rawBody, signature);
  if (!isValid) {
    return ctx.status(400).send("Invalid signature");
  }

  return ctx.status(200).send("Webhook received");
});

TIP

Calling ctx.body('text') bypasses JSON parsing completely and returns the raw UTF-8 string payload.

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