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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 services out there today such as Telegram, Pushbullet, Slack, Twitter, etc. The idea of this library was to greatly simplify access to these notification services since all their APIs all drastically differ from one another.

• 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 notification service as they come along. They just need to include this one library and immediately gain access to a wide range of notifications services.

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

Supported Notifications

The section identifies all of the services supported by this script.

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
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
Emby	emby:// or embys://	(TCP) 8096	emby://user@hostname/ emby://user:password@hostname
Faast	faast://	(TCP) 443	faast://authorizationtoken
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/EventToTrigger ifttt://webhooksID/EventToTrigger/Value1/Value2/Value3 ifttt://webhooksID/EventToTrigger/?Value3=NewEntry&Value2=AnotherValue
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
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
Pushalot	palot://	(TCP) 443	palot://authorizationtoken
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://	(TCP) 80	pjet://secret pjet://secret@hostname pjet://secret@hostname:port pjets://secret@hostname pjets://secret@hostname:port Note: if no hostname defined https://api.pushjet.io will be used
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
Slack	slack://	(TCP) 443	slack://TokenA/TokenB/TokenC/Channel slack://botname@TokenA/TokenB/TokenC/Channel slack://user@TokenA/TokenB/TokenC/Channel1/Channel2/ChannelN
Stride	stride://	(TCP) 443	stride://auth_token/cloud_id/convo_id
Super Toasty	toasty://	(TCP) 80	toasty://user@DEVICE toasty://user@DEVICE1/DEVICE2/DEVICEN Note: you must specify both your user_id and at least 1 device!
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://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://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 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 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
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'

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(
    title='my notification title',
    body='what a great notification service!',
)