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

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

• One notification library to rule them all.
• A common and intuitive notification syntax.
• Supports the handling of images and attachments (to the notification services that will accept them).
• It's incredibly lightweight.
• Amazing response times because all messages sent asynchronously.

Developers who wish to provide a notification service no longer need to research each and every one out there. They no longer need to try to adapt to the new ones that comeout thereafter. 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 and DevOps who wish to send a notification now no longer need to find the right tool for the job. Everything is already wrapped and supported within the

apprise

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. Click on any of the services listed below to get more details on how you can configure Apprise to access them.

| Notification Service | Service ID | Default Port | Example Syntax | | -------------------- | ---------- | ------------ | -------------- | | Boxcar | boxcar:// | (TCP) 443 | boxcar://hostname
boxcar://hostname/@tag
boxcar://hostname/devicetoken
boxcar://hostname/devicetoken1/devicetoken2/devicetokenN
boxcar://hostname/@tag/@tag2/devicetoken | Discord | discord:// | (TCP) 443 | discord://webhookid/webhooktoken
discord://[email protected]id/webhooktoken | Emby | emby:// or embys:// | (TCP) 8096 | emby://[email protected]/
emby://user:[email protected] | Enigma2 | enigma2:// or enigma2s:// | (TCP) 80 or 443 | enigma2://hostname | Faast | faast:// | (TCP) 443 | faast://authorizationtoken | FCM | fcm:// | (TCP) 443 | fcm://[email protected]/DEVICEID
fcm://[email protected]/#TOPIC
fcm://[email protected]/DEVICEID1/#topic1/#topic2/DEVICEID2/ | Flock | flock:// | (TCP) 443 | flock://token
flock://[email protected]
flock://apptoken/u:userid
flock://apptoken/g:channelid
flock://apptoken/u:userid/g:channelid | Gitter | gitter:// | (TCP) 443 | gitter://token/room
gitter://token/room1/room2/roomN | Google Chat | gchat:// | (TCP) 443 | gchat://workspace/key/token | Gotify | gotify:// or gotifys:// | (TCP) 80 or 443 | gotify://hostname/token
gotifys://hostname/token?priority=high | Growl | growl:// | (UDP) 23053 | growl://hostname
growl://hostname:portno
growl://[email protected]
growl://[email protected]:portNote: 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 | Home Assistant | hassio:// or hassios:// | (TCP) 8123 or 443 | hassio://hostname/accesstoken
hassio://[email protected]/accesstoken
hassio://user:[email protected]:port/accesstoken
hassio://hostname/optional/path/accesstoken | 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://[email protected]
kodi://user:[email protected]:port | Kumulos | kumulos:// | (TCP) 443 | kumulos://apikey/serverkey | LaMetric Time | lametric:// | (TCP) 443 | lametric://[email protected]ipaddr
lametric://[email protected]:port
lametric://client[email protected]secret | Mailgun | mailgun:// | (TCP) 443 | mailgun://[email protected]/apikey
mailgun://[email protected]/apikey/email
mailgun://[email protected]/apikey/email1/email2/emailN
mailgun://[email protected]/apikey/?name="From%20User" | Matrix | matrix:// or matrixs:// | (TCP) 80 or 443 | matrix://hostname
matrix://[email protected]
matrixs://user:[email protected]:port/#roomalias
matrixs://user:[email protected]:port/!roomid
matrixs://user:[email protected]:port/#roomalias/!roomid/#room2
matrixs://[email protected]:port/?webhook=matrix
matrix://user:[email protected]/?webhook=slack&format=markdown | Mattermost | mmost:// | (TCP) 8065 | mmost://hostname/authkey
mmost://hostname:80/authkey
mmost://[email protected]:80/authkey
mmost://hostname/authkey?channel=channel
mmosts://hostname/authkey
mmosts://[email protected]/authkey
| Microsoft Teams | msteams:// | (TCP) 443 | msteams://TokenA/TokenB/TokenC/ | Nextcloud | ncloud:// or nclouds:// | (TCP) 80 or 443 | ncloud://adminuser:[email protected]/User
nclouds://adminuser:[email protected]/User1/User2/UserN | Notica | notica:// | (TCP) 443 | notica://Token/ | Notifico | notifico:// | (TCP) 443 | notifico://ProjectID/MessageHook/ | Office 365 | o365:// | (TCP) 443 | o365://TenantID:AccountEmail/ClientID/ClientSecret
o365://TenantID:AccountEmail/ClientID/ClientSecret/TargetEmail
o365://TenantID:AccountEmail/ClientID/ClientSecret/TargetEmail1/TargetEmail2/TargetEmailN | OneSignal | onesignal:// | (TCP) 443 | onesignal://[email protected]/PlayerID
onesignal://TemplateID:[email protected]/UserID
onesignal://[email protected]/#IncludeSegment
onesignal://[email protected]/Email | Opsgenie | opsgenie:// | (TCP) 443 | opsgenie://APIKey
opsgenie://APIKey/UserID
opsgenie://APIKey/#Team
opsgenie://APIKey/*Schedule
opsgenie://APIKey/^Escalation | ParsePlatform | parsep:// or parseps:// | (TCP) 80 or 443 | parsep://AppID:[email protected]
parseps://AppID:[email protected] | PopcornNotify | popcorn:// | (TCP) 443 | popcorn://ApiKey/ToPhoneNo
popcorn://ApiKey/ToPhoneNo1/ToPhoneNo2/ToPhoneNoN/
popcorn://ApiKey/ToEmail
popcorn://ApiKey/ToEmail1/ToEmail2/ToEmailN/
popcorn://ApiKey/ToPhoneNo1/ToEmail1/ToPhoneNoN/ToEmailN | Prowl | prowl:// | (TCP) 443 | prowl://apikey
prowl://apikey/providerkey | PushBullet | pbul:// | (TCP) 443 | pbul://accesstoken
pbul://accesstoken/#channel
pbul://accesstoken/ADEVICEID
pbul://accesstoken/[email protected]
pbul://accesstoken/#channel/#channel2/[email protected]/DEVICE | Pushjet | pjet:// or pjets:// | (TCP) 80 or 443 | pjet://hostname/secret
pjet://hostname:port/secret
pjets://[email protected]/secret
pjets://hostname:port/secret | Push (Techulus) | push:// | (TCP) 443 | push://apikey/ | 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://[email protected]
pover://[email protected]/DEVICE
pover://[email protected]/DEVICE1/DEVICE2/DEVICEN
Note: you must specify both your userid and token | PushSafer | psafer:// or psafers:// | (TCP) 80 or 443 | psafer://privatekey
psafers://privatekey/DEVICE
psafer://privatekey/DEVICE1/DEVICE2/DEVICEN | Reddit | reddit:// | (TCP) 443 | reddit://user:[email protected]id/appsecret/subreddit
reddit://user:[email protected]id/appsecret/sub1/sub2/subN | Rocket.Chat | rocket:// or rockets:// | (TCP) 80 or 443 | rocket://user:[email protected]/RoomID/Channel
rockets://user:[email protected]:443/#Channel1/#Channel1/RoomID
rocket://user:[email protected]/#Channel
rocket://[email protected]
rockets://[email protected]/@User/#Channel | Ryver | ryver:// | (TCP) 443 | ryver://Organization/Token
ryver://[email protected]/Token | SendGrid | sendgrid:// | (TCP) 443 | sendgrid://APIToken:FromEmail/
sendgrid://APIToken:FromEmail/ToEmail
sendgrid://APIToken:FromEmail/ToEmail1/ToEmail2/ToEmailN/ | SimplePush | spush:// | (TCP) 443 | spush://apikey
spush://salt:[email protected]
spush://apikey?event=Apprise | Slack | slack:// | (TCP) 443 | slack://TokenA/TokenB/TokenC/
slack://TokenA/TokenB/TokenC/Channel
slack://[email protected]/TokenB/TokenC/Channel
slack://[email protected]/TokenB/TokenC/Channel1/Channel2/ChannelN | SparkPost | sparkpost:// | (TCP) 443 | sparkpost://[email protected]/apikey
sparkpost://[email protected]/apikey/email
sparkpost://[email protected]/apikey/email1/email2/emailN
sparkpost://[email protected]/apikey/?name="From%20User" | Spontit | spontit:// | (TCP) 443 | spontit://[email protected]/
spontit://[email protected]/Channel
spontit://[email protected]/Channel1/Channel2/ChannelN | Syslog | syslog:// | n/a | syslog://
syslog://Facility | Telegram | tgram:// | (TCP) 443 | tgram://bottoken/ChatID
tgram://bottoken/ChatID1/ChatID2/ChatIDN | Twitter | twitter:// | (TCP) 443 | twitter://CKey/CSecret/AKey/ASecret
twitter://[email protected]/CSecret/AKey/ASecret
twitter://CKey/CSecret/AKey/ASecret/User1/User2/User2
twitter://CKey/CSecret/AKey/ASecret?mode=tweet | Twist | twist:// | (TCP) 443 | twist://pasword:login
twist://password:login/#channel
twist://password:login/#team:channel
twist://password:login/#team:channel1/channel2/#team3:channel | XBMC | xbmc:// or xbmcs:// | (TCP) 8080 or 443 | xbmc://hostname
xbmc://[email protected]
xbmc://user:[email protected]:port | XMPP | xmpp:// or xmpps:// | (TCP) 5222 or 5223 | xmpp://[email protected]
xmpp://user:[email protected]
xmpps://user:[email protected]:[email protected]/resource
xmpps://[email protected]/[email protected], [email protected]/resource | Webex Teams (Cisco) | wxteams:// | (TCP) 443 | wxteams://Token | Zulip Chat | zulip:// | (TCP) 443 | zulip://[email protected]/Token
zulip://[email protected]/Token/Stream
zulip://[email protected]/Token/Email

SMS Notification Support

| 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 | ClickSend | clicksend:// | (TCP) 443 | clicksend://user:[email protected]
clicksend://user:[email protected]/ToPhoneNo2/ToPhoneNoN | D7 Networks | d7sms:// | (TCP) 443 | d7sms://user:[email protected]
d7sms://user:[email protected]/ToPhoneNo2/ToPhoneNoN | Kavenegar | kavenegar:// | (TCP) 443 | kavenegar://ApiKey/ToPhoneNo
kavenegar://[email protected]/ToPhoneNo
kavenegar://ApiKey/ToPhoneNo1/ToPhoneNo2/ToPhoneNoN | MessageBird | msgbird:// | (TCP) 443 | msgbird://ApiKey/FromPhoneNo
msgbird://ApiKey/FromPhoneNo/ToPhoneNo
msgbird://ApiKey/FromPhoneNo/ToPhoneNo1/ToPhoneNo2/ToPhoneNoN/ | MSG91 | msg91:// | (TCP) 443 | msg91://AuthKey/ToPhoneNo
msg91://[email protected]/ToPhoneNo
msg91://AuthKey/ToPhoneNo1/ToPhoneNo2/ToPhoneNoN/ | Nexmo | nexmo:// | (TCP) 443 | nexmo://ApiKey:[email protected]
nexmo://ApiKey:[email protected]/ToPhoneNo
nexmo://ApiKey:[email protected]/ToPhoneNo1/ToPhoneNo2/ToPhoneNoN/ | Sinch | sinch:// | (TCP) 443 | sinch://ServicePlanId:[email protected]
sinch://ServicePlanId:[email protected]/ToPhoneNo
sinch://ServicePlanId:[email protected]/ToPhoneNo1/ToPhoneNo2/ToPhoneNoN/
sinch://ServicePlanId:[email protected]/ToPhoneNo
sinch://ServicePlanId:[email protected]/ToPhoneNo1/ToPhoneNo2/ToPhoneNoN/ | Twilio | twilio:// | (TCP) 443 | twilio://AccountSid:[email protected]
twilio://AccountSid:[email protected]/ToPhoneNo
twilio://AccountSid:[email protected]/ToPhoneNo1/ToPhoneNo2/ToPhoneNoN/
twilio://AccountSid:[email protected]/ToPhoneNo
twilio://AccountSid:[email protected]/ToPhoneNo1/ToPhoneNo2/ToPhoneNoN/

Desktop Notification Support

| Notification Service | Service ID | Default Port | Example Syntax | | -------------------- | ---------- | ------------ | -------------- | | Linux DBus Notifications | dbus://
qt://
glib://
kde:// | n/a | dbus://
qt://
glib://
kde:// | Linux Gnome Notifications | gnome:// | n/a | gnome:// | MacOS X Notifications | macosx:// | n/a | macosx:// | Windows Notifications | windows:// | n/a | windows://

Email Support

| Service ID | Default Port | Example Syntax | | ---------- | ------------ | -------------- | | mailto:// | (TCP) 25 | mailto://userid:[email protected]
mailto://domain.com?user=userid&pass=password
mailto://domain.com:2525?user=userid&pass=password
mailto://[email protected]&pass=password
mailto://mySendingUsername:[email protected][email protected]
mailto://userid:[email protected]?smtp=mail.example.com&[email protected]&name=no%20reply | mailtos:// | (TCP) 587 | mailtos://userid:[email protected]
mailtos://domain.com?user=userid&pass=password
mailtos://domain.com:465?user=userid&pass=password
mailtos://[email protected]&pass=password
mailtos://mySendingUsername:[email protected][email protected]
mailtos://userid:[email protected]?smtp=mail.example.com&[email protected]&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://[email protected]
json://user:[email protected]:port
json://hostname/a/path/to/post/to | XML | xml:// or xmls:// | (TCP) 80 or 443 | xml://hostname
xml://[email protected]
xml://user:[email protected]:port
xml://hostname/a/path/to/post/to

Installation

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

bash
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: ```bash

Send a notification to as many servers as you want

as you can easily chain one after another (the -vv provides some

additional verbosity to help let you know what is going on):

apprise -vv -t 'my title' -b 'my notification body' \ 'mailto://myemail:[email protected]' \ '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 -vv -t 'cpu info' \ 'mailto://myemail:[email protected]'

The title field is totally optional

uptime | apprise -vv \ 'discord:///4174216298/JHMHI8qBe7bk2ZwO5U711o3dV_js' ```

Configuration Files

No one wants to put their 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! You can read more about the expected structure of the configuration files here. ```bash

By default if no url or configuration is specified aprise will attempt to load

configuration files (if present):

~/.apprise

~/.apprise.yml

~/.config/apprise

~/.config/apprise.yml

Windows users can store their default configuration files here:

%APPDATA%/Apprise/apprise

%APPDATA%/Apprise/apprise.yml

%LOCALAPPDATA%/Apprise/apprise

%LOCALAPPDATA%/Apprise/apprise.yml

If you loaded one of those files, your command line gets really easy:

apprise -vv -t 'my title' -b 'my notification body'

If you want to deviate from the default paths or specify more than one,

just specify them using the --config switch:

apprise -vv -t 'my title' -b 'my notification body' \ --config=/path/to/my/config.yml

Got lots of configuration locations? No problem, you can specify them all:

Apprise can even fetch the configuration from over a network!

apprise -vv -t 'my title' -b 'my notification body' \ --config=/path/to/my/config.yml \ --config=https://localhost/my/apprise/config ```

Attaching Files

Apprise also supports file attachments too! Specify as many attachments to a notification as you want. ```bash

Send a funny image you found on the internet to a colleague:

apprise -vv --title 'Agile Joke' \ --body 'Did you see this one yet?' \ --attach https://i.redd.it/my2t4d2fx0u31.jpg \ 'mailto://myemail:[email protected]'

Easily send an update from a critical server to your dev team

apprise -vv --title 'system crash' \ --body 'I do not think Jim fixed the bug; see attached...' \ --attach /var/log/myprogram.log \ --attach /var/debug/core.2345 \ --tag devteam ```

Developers

To send a notification from within your python application, just do the following: ```python 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://myuserid:[email protected]')

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 the Apprise object can ingest. You can also freely mix and match config and notification entries as often as you wish! You can read more about the expected structure of the configuration files here. ```python 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

In this entry we associate the 'admin' tag with our notification

apobj.add('mailto://myuser:[email protected]', tag='admin')

Then notify these services any time you desire. The below would

notify all of the services that have not been bound to any specific

tag.

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

Tagging allows you to specifically target only specific notification

services you've loaded:

apobj.notify( body='send a notification to our admin group', title='Attention Admins', # notify any services tagged with the 'admin' tag tag='admin', )

If you want to notify absolutely everything (reguardless of whether

it's been tagged or not), just use the reserved tag of 'all':

apobj.notify( body='send a notification to our admin group', title='Attention Admins', # notify absolutely everything loaded, reguardless on wether # it has a tag associated with it or not: tag='all', ) ```

Attaching Files

Attachments are very easy to send using the Apprise API: ```python import apprise

Create an Apprise instance

apobj = apprise.Apprise()

Add at least one service you want to notify

apobj.add('mailto://myuser:[email protected]')

Then send your attachment.

apobj.notify( title='A great photo of our family', body='The flash caused Jane to close her eyes! hah! :)', attach='/local/path/to/my/DSC_003.jpg', )

Send a web based attachment too! In the below example, we connect to a home

security camera and send a live image to an email. By default remote web

content is cached but for a security camera, we might want to call notify

again later in our code so we want our last image retrieved to expire(in

this case after 3 seconds).

apobj.notify( title='Latest security image', attach='http:/admin:[email protected]/ISAPI/Streaming/channels/101/picture?cache=3' ) ```

To send more than one attachment, just use a list, set, or tuple instead: ```python import apprise

Create an Apprise instance

apobj = apprise.Apprise()

Add at least one service you want to notify

apobj.add('mailto://myuser:[email protected]')

Now add all of the entries we're intrested in:

attach = ( # ?name= allows us to rename the actual jpeg as found on the site # to be another name when sent to our receipient(s) 'https://i.redd.it/my2t4d2fx0u31.jpg?name=FlyingToMars.jpg',

# Now add another:
'/path/to/funny/joke.gif',

)

Send your multiple attachments with a single notify call:

apobj.notify( title='Some good jokes.', body='Hey guys, check out these!', attach=attach, ) ```

Want To Learn More?

If you're interested in reading more about this and other methods on how to customize your own notifications, please check out the following links: * 📣 Using the CLI * 🛠️ Development API * 🔧 Troubleshooting * ⚙️ Configuration File Help * 🌎 Apprise API/Web Interface * 🎉 Showcase

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