LogCapture

apprise.LogCapture() allows you to capture all of the logging information within your program. You may wish to relay the information to screen, or maybe you just want to have a look at it's contents when one or more notifications fail to be delivered.

The class can capture information into a temporary (or permanent) log file, or you can just capture it straight into memory. It's incredibly easy to use too.

Learn by Example

Capture to Memory

Your code changes from this:

import apprise

# Instantiate our object
apobj = apprise.Apprise()

# add your configuration
apobj.add('mailto://user:pass@example.com')
apobj.add('kodi://kodi.example.com')

# Send our notification
apobj.notify(title="hello", body="world")

To this:

import apprise

# Instantiate our object
apobj = apprise.Apprise()

# add your configuration
apobj.add('mailto://user:pass@example.com')
apobj.add('kodi://kodi.example.com')

# Prepare a LogCapture() that sets logging to INFO. This means your
# logs will include all INFO, WARNING, ERROR, and CRITICAL entries
with apprise.LogCapture(level=apprise.logging.INFO) as output:
    # Send our notification
    apobj.notify(title="hello", body="world")

    # At this point of our code, we can have a look at our output
    # to see all of the logging that surrounded our notification(s)
    # Note that `output` is a StringIO object:
    print(output.getvalue())

Capture to File

The class can write directly to memory (as you saw above) where content was written into a io.StringIO object. You can also write content into a temporary file as well:

# In this example:
# - we write to a log file /tmp/apprise.tmp
# - we only capture WARNING, ERROR, and CRITICAL entries
# - we assume that `apobj` is an Apprise object already loaded with a few notification
#   services.
with apprise.LogCapture(path='/tmp/apprise.tmp', level=apprise.logging.WARNING) as output:
    # Send our notification
    apobj.notify(title="hello", body="world")

    # At this point of our code, we can have a look at our output
    # to see all of the logging that surrounded our notification(s)
    # Note that `output` is a File object because we specified the `path` above
    print(output.read())

# What is VERY important to note is that whatever was specified with the `path=` above
# entry (in this case /tmp/apprise.tmp) will no longer exist at this point (outside of the
# `with` block).

If you want to write to a file and have it persist after your with block has completed, the syntax is very similar, you just need to add delete=False to the LogCapture() initialization like so:

# In this example:
# - we write to a log file /tmp/apprise.tmp
# - we only capture WARNING, ERROR, and CRITICAL entries
# - we assume that `apobj` is an Apprise object already loaded with a few notification
#   services.
with apprise.LogCapture(
        path='/tmp/apprise.persistent', level=apprise.logging.WARNING,
        delete=False) as output:

    # Send our notification
    apobj.notify(title="hello", body="world")

    # At this point of our code, we can have a look at our output
    # to see all of the logging that surrounded our notification(s)
    # Note that `output` is a File object because we specified the `path` above
    print(output.read())

# tmp/apprise.persistent will exist still on disk at this point

Class Details

By default if no level= is specified, then the log level you set globally in your program is used.

Tricks

Format your logs for HTML:

# The default fmt for LogCapture() is: '%(asctime)s - %(levelname)s - %(message)s'

# But you can use this to leverage how you want the content formatted; so you can
# build your HTML content in advance here if you like:
fmt = '<li><i class="log_time">%(asctime)s</i>' \
    '<i class="log_level">%(levelname)s</i>:' \
    '<p class="log_msg">%(message)s</p></li>'

# Now specify our format (and over-ride the default):
with apprise.LogCapture(level=apprise.logging.WARNING, fmt=fmt) as logs:
     apobj.notify("hello world")

     # Wrap logs in `<ul>` tag:
     html = '<ul class="logs">{}</ul>'.format(logs.getvalue())

     # Now `html` consists of a formatted code; keep in mind that
     # this solution isn't bulletproof as `%(message)s` isn't
     # pre-escaped/encoded.

Quick Links:

📣 Apprise Notification Services and URL Examples
💡 Apprise CLI Tool Help
⚙️ Apprise Configuration Help
🌎 Apprise API/Web Interface