pushno

pushno is a Python package for sending push notifications to mobile devices. It provides a simple, common interface for sending push notifications via the two services PushOver and Prowl.

pushno focuses on Python 3.x so there will be no legacy support for Python 2.x. Due to its modular structure theoretically further services can be added.

Module Installation

The easiest way to install the newest version of the pushno module is via pip:

pip install -U pushno

or clone/download this repository and install it:

python setup.py install

Basic Setup

In the first step, you need to setup an account at PushOver or Prowl and create a corresponding API key that you want to use.

Examples

The easiest way to send a push message with pushno is to use the PushNotification class that provides a common interface to all available push notification services.

Prowl

For Prowl do:

from pushno import PushNotification

PUSHNO_PROWL_API_KEY = "<your_prowl_api_key>"

pn = PushNotification(
    "prowl", api_key=PUSHNO_PROWL_API_KEY, application="pushno"
)
is_valid, res = pn.validate_user()
if is_valid:
    pn.send(event="How simple is that?", description="Great News")
else:
    print(res)

PushOver

For PushOver do:

from pushno import PushNotification

PUSHNO_PUSHOVER_API_KEY = "<your_pushover_api_key>"
PUSHNO_PUSHOVER_USER_KEY = "<your_pushover_user_key>"

pn = PushNotification(
    "pushover", token=PUSHNO_PUSHOVER_API_KEY,
    user=PUSHNO_PUSHOVER_USER_KEY
)
is_valid, res = pn.validate_user()
if is_valid:
    pn.send(title="How simple is that?", message="Great News")
else:
    print(res)

Note that the validation part is optional, so if you are sure that the API key is working as expected, you can send the push message directly. As a result, you can send a push message in two lines of code. The API key is the key of the specific app.

It is also possible to use the underlying client classes directly, which is however a little bit more verbose:

Prowl

from pushno.plugins import ProwlClient
from pushno.messages import ProwlMessage

# prepare the pushover client
client = ProwlClient(PUSHNO_PROWL_API_KEY)

# validate the user key
is_valid, res = client.validate_user()
if is_valid is True:
    # key is still valid => send a notification message
    res = client.send(
        ProwlMessage(
            application="pushno",
            event="How simple is that?",
            description="Great News"
        )
    )
    print(res)

else:
    print(res)

PushOver

from pushno.plugins import PushOverClient
from pushno.messages import PushOverMessage

# prepare the pushover client
client = PushOverClient(PUSHNO_PUSHOVER_API_KEY, PUSHNO_PUSHOVER_USER_KEY)

# validate the user key
is_valid, res = client.validate_user()
if is_valid is True:
    # key is still valid => send a notification message
    client.send(
        PushOverMessage(
            title="Great News",
            message="How simple is that?"
        )
    )

else:
    print(res["errors"])

Again the validation part of the user's API key is optional.

For the complete example scripts see https://github.com/keans/pushno/tree/master/examples .

Development

If you want to contribute in the development, please check out the source code at https://github.com/keans/pushno.git .

To get started with the development:

git clone git@github.com:keans/pushno.git
cd pushno/
python3 -m venv env
source env/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

For verbose debug output simply set the logging level to debug:

import logging
logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG)