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ap·prise / verb
To inform or tell (someone). To make one aware of something.

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Apprise allows you to send a notification to almost all of the most popular notification services available to us today such as: Telegram, Pushbullet, Slack, Twitter, etc.

• One notification library to rule them all.
• A common and intuitive notification syntax.
• Supports the handling of images (to the notification services that will accept them).

System owners who wish to provide a notification service no longer need to research each and every new one as they appear. They just need to include this one library and then they can immediately gain access to almost all of the notifications services available to us today.

System Administrators who wish to send a notification from a scheduled task or from the command line also no longer need to find the right tool for the job. Everything is already wrapped and supported within the apprise script that ships with this product.

Supported Notifications

The section identifies all of the services supported by this library. Check out the wiki for more information on the supported modules here.

Popular Notification Services

The table below identifies the services this tool supports and some example service urls you need to use in order to take advantage of it.

Notification Service	Service ID	Default Port	Example Syntax
AWS SNS	sns://	(TCP) 443	sns://AccessKeyID/AccessSecretKey/RegionName/+PhoneNo sns://AccessKeyID/AccessSecretKey/RegionName/+PhoneNo1/+PhoneNo2/+PhoneNoN sns://AccessKeyID/AccessSecretKey/RegionName/Topic sns://AccessKeyID/AccessSecretKey/RegionName/Topic1/Topic2/TopicN
Boxcar	boxcar://	(TCP) 443	boxcar://hostname boxcar://hostname/@tag boxcar://hostname/device_token boxcar://hostname/device_token1/device_token2/device_tokenN boxcar://hostname/@tag/@tag2/device_token
Discord	discord://	(TCP) 443	discord://webhook_id/webhook_token discord://avatar@webhook_id/webhook_token
Dbus	dbus:// qt:// glib:// kde://	n/a	dbus:// qt:// glib:// kde://
Emby	emby:// or embys://	(TCP) 8096	emby://user@hostname/ emby://user:password@hostname
Faast	faast://	(TCP) 443	faast://authorizationtoken
Gnome	gnome://	n/a	gnome://
Growl	growl://	(UDP) 23053	growl://hostname growl://hostname:portno growl://password@hostname growl://password@hostname:port Note: you can also use the get parameter version which can allow the growl request to behave using the older v1.x protocol. An example would look like: growl://hostname?version=1
IFTTT	ifttt://	(TCP) 443	ifttt://webhooksID/Event ifttt://webhooksID/Event1/Event2/EventN ifttt://webhooksID/Event1/?+Key=Value ifttt://webhooksID/Event1/?-Key=value1
Join	join://	(TCP) 443	join://apikey/device join://apikey/device1/device2/deviceN/ join://apikey/group join://apikey/groupA/groupB/groupN join://apikey/DeviceA/groupA/groupN/DeviceN/
KODI	kodi:// or kodis://	(TCP) 8080 or 443	kodi://hostname kodi://user@hostname kodi://user:password@hostname:port
Matrix	matrix:// or matrixs://	(TCP) 8008 or 8448	matrix://hostname matrix://user@hostname matrixs://user:pass@hostname:port/#room_alias matrixs://user:pass@hostname:port/!room_id matrixs://user:pass@hostname:port/#room_alias/!room_id/#room2
Mattermost	mmost://	(TCP) 8065	mmost://hostname/authkey mmost://hostname:80/authkey mmost://user@hostname:80/authkey mmost://hostname/authkey?channel=channel mmosts://hostname/authkey mmosts://user@hostname/authkey
Prowl	prowl://	(TCP) 443	prowl://apikey prowl://apikey/providerkey
PushBullet	pbul://	(TCP) 443	pbul://accesstoken pbul://accesstoken/#channel pbul://accesstoken/A_DEVICE_ID pbul://accesstoken/email@address.com pbul://accesstoken/#channel/#channel2/email@address.net/DEVICE
Pushjet	pjet:// or pjets://	(TCP) 80 or 443	pjet://secret@hostname pjet://secret@hostname:port pjets://secret@hostname pjets://secret@hostname:port
Pushed	pushed://	(TCP) 443	pushed://appkey/appsecret/ pushed://appkey/appsecret/#ChannelAlias pushed://appkey/appsecret/#ChannelAlias1/#ChannelAlias2/#ChannelAliasN pushed://appkey/appsecret/@UserPushedID pushed://appkey/appsecret/@UserPushedID1/@UserPushedID2/@UserPushedIDN
Pushover	pover://	(TCP) 443	pover://user@token pover://user@token/DEVICE pover://user@token/DEVICE1/DEVICE2/DEVICEN Note: you must specify both your user_id and token
Rocket.Chat	rocket:// or rockets://	(TCP) 80 or 443	rocket://user:password@hostname/RoomID/Channel rockets://user:password@hostname:443/Channel1/Channel1/RoomID rocket://user:password@hostname/Channel
Ryver	ryver://	(TCP) 443	ryver://Organization/Token ryver://botname@Organization/Token
Slack	slack://	(TCP) 443	slack://TokenA/TokenB/TokenC/Channel slack://botname@TokenA/TokenB/TokenC/Channel slack://user@TokenA/TokenB/TokenC/Channel1/Channel2/ChannelN
Telegram	tgram://	(TCP) 443	tgram://bottoken/ChatID tgram://bottoken/ChatID1/ChatID2/ChatIDN
Twitter	tweet://	(TCP) 443	tweet://user@CKey/CSecret/AKey/ASecret
XBMC	xbmc:// or xbmcs://	(TCP) 8080 or 443	xbmc://hostname xbmc://user@hostname xbmc://user:password@hostname:port
Windows Notification	windows://	n/a	windows://

Email Support

Service ID	Default Port	Example Syntax
mailto://	(TCP) 25	mailto://userid:pass@domain.com mailto://domain.com?user=userid&pass=password mailto://domain.com:2525?user=userid&pass=password mailto://user@gmail.com&pass=password mailto://mySendingUsername:mySendingPassword@example.com?to=receivingAddress@example.com mailto://userid:password@example.com?smtp=mail.example.com&from=noreply@example.com&name=no%20reply
mailtos://	(TCP) 587	mailtos://userid:pass@domain.com mailtos://domain.com?user=userid&pass=password mailtos://domain.com:465?user=userid&pass=password mailtos://user@hotmail.com&pass=password mailtos://mySendingUsername:mySendingPassword@example.com?to=receivingAddress@example.com mailtos://userid:password@example.com?smtp=mail.example.com&from=noreply@example.com&name=no%20reply

Apprise have some email services built right into it (such as yahoo, fastmail, hotmail, gmail, etc) that greatly simplify the mailto:// service. See more details here.

Custom Notifications

Post Method	Service ID	Default Port	Example Syntax
JSON	json:// or jsons://	(TCP) 80 or 443	json://hostname json://user@hostname json://user:password@hostname:port json://hostname/a/path/to/post/to
XML	xml:// or xmls://	(TCP) 80 or 443	xml://hostname xml://user@hostname xml://user:password@hostname:port xml://hostname/a/path/to/post/to

Installation

The easiest way is to install this package is from pypi:

pip install apprise

Command Line

A small command line tool is also provided with this package called apprise. If you know the server url's you wish to notify, you can simply provide them all on the command line and send your notifications that way:

# Send a notification to as many servers as you want to specify
# as you can easily chain them together:
apprise -t 'my title' -b 'my notification body' \
   'mailto://myemail:mypass@gmail.com' \
   'pbul://o.gn5kj6nfhv736I7jC3cj3QLRiyhgl98b'

# If you don't specify a --body (-b) then stdin is used allowing
# you to use the tool as part of your every day administration:
cat /proc/cpuinfo | apprise -t 'cpu info' \
      'mailto://myemail:mypass@gmail.com'

Configuration Files

No one wants to put there credentials out for everyone to see on the command line. No problem apprise also supports configuration files. It can handle both a specific YAML format or a very simple TEXT format. You can also pull these configuration files via an HTTP query too! More information concerning Apprise configuration can be found here

# By default now if no url or configuration is specified aprise will
# peek for this data in:
#  ~/.apprise
#  ~/.apprise.yml
#  ~/.config/apprise
#  ~/.config/apprise.yml

# If you loaded one of those files, your command line gets really easy:
apprise -t 'my title' -b 'my notification body'

# Know the location of the configuration source? No problem, just
# specify it.
apprise -t 'my title' -b 'my notification body' \
	--config=/path/to/my/config.yml

# Got lots of configuration locations? No problem, specify them all:
apprise -t 'my title' -b 'my notification body' \
	--config=/path/to/my/config.yml \
	--config=https://localhost/my/apprise/config

Developers

To send a notification from within your python application, just do the following:

import apprise

# Create an Apprise instance
apobj = apprise.Apprise()

# Add all of the notification services by their server url.
# A sample email notification
apobj.add('mailto://myemail:mypass@gmail.com')

# A sample pushbullet notification
apobj.add('pbul://o.gn5kj6nfhv736I7jC3cj3QLRiyhgl98b')

# Then notify these services any time you desire. The below would
# notify all of the services loaded into our Apprise object.
apobj.notify(
    body='what a great notification service!',
    title='my notification title',
)

Configuration Files

Developers need access to configuration files too. The good news is their use just involves declaring another object (called AppriseConfig) that Apprise can ingest too! You can mix and match config and notification entries too!

import apprise

# Create an Apprise instance
apobj = apprise.Apprise()

# Create an Config instance
config = apprise.AppriseConfig()

# Add a configuration source:
config.add('/path/to/my/config.yml')

# Add another...
config.add('https://myserver:8080/path/to/config')

# Make sure to add our config into our apprise object
apobj.add(config)

# You can mix and match; add an entry directly if you want too
apobj.add('mailto://myemail:mypass@gmail.com', tag=admin)

# Then notify these services any time you desire. The below would
# notify all of the services loaded into our Apprise object; this includes
# all items identified in the configuration files.
apobj.notify(
    body='what a great notification service!',
    title='my notification title',
)

# If you're using tagging, then you can load all of your notifications
# but only selectively call ones associated with one or more tags:
apobj.notify(
    body='send a notification to our admin group'
    title='Attention Admins',
    tag='admin',
)

If you're interested in reading more about this and methods on how to customize your own notifications, please check out the wiki at https://github.com/caronc/apprise/wiki/Development_API