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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, 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 command line tool (CLI) that ships with this product.

Table of Contents

• Supported Notifications
  • Productivity Based Notifications
  • SMS Notifications
  • Desktop Notifications
  • Email Notifications
  • Custom Notifications
• Installation
• Command Line Usage
  • Configuration Files
  • File Attachments
  • Loading Custom Notifications/Hooks
• Developer API Usage
  • Configuration Files
  • File Attachments
  • Loading Custom Notifications/Hooks
• More Supported Links and Documentation

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.

Productivity Based Notifications

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
Apprise API	apprise:// or apprises://	(TCP) 80 or 443	apprise://hostname/Token
AWS SES	ses://	(TCP) 443	ses://user@domain/AccessKeyID/AccessSecretKey/RegionName ses://user@domain/AccessKeyID/AccessSecretKey/RegionName/email1/email2/emailN
Bark	bark://	(TCP) 80 or 443	bark://hostname bark://hostname/device_key bark://hostname/device_key1/device_key2/device_keyN
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
Enigma2	enigma2:// or enigma2s://	(TCP) 80 or 443	enigma2://hostname
Faast	faast://	(TCP) 443	faast://authorizationtoken
FCM	fcm://	(TCP) 443	fcm://project@apikey/DEVICE_ID fcm://project@apikey/#TOPIC fcm://project@apikey/DEVICE_ID1/#topic1/#topic2/DEVICE_ID2/
Flock	flock://	(TCP) 443	flock://token flock://botname@token flock://app_token/u:userid flock://app_token/g:channel_id flock://app_token/u:userid/g:channel_id
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://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
Guilded	guilded://	(TCP) 443	guilded://webhook_id/webhook_token guilded://avatar@webhook_id/webhook_token
Home Assistant	hassio:// or hassios://	(TCP) 8123 or 443	hassio://hostname/accesstoken hassio://user@hostname/accesstoken hassio://user:password@hostname: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://user@hostname kodi://user:password@hostname:port
Kumulos	kumulos://	(TCP) 443	kumulos://apikey/serverkey
LaMetric Time	lametric://	(TCP) 443	lametric://apikey@device_ipaddr lametric://apikey@hostname:port lametric://client_id@client_secret
Line	line://	(TCP) 443	line://Token@User line://Token/User1/User2/UserN
Mailgun	mailgun://	(TCP) 443	mailgun://user@hostname/apikey mailgun://user@hostname/apikey/email mailgun://user@hostname/apikey/email1/email2/emailN mailgun://user@hostname/apikey/?name="From%20User"
Matrix	matrix:// or matrixs://	(TCP) 80 or 443	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 matrixs://token@hostname:port/?webhook=matrix matrix://user:token@hostname/?webhook=slack&format=markdown
Mattermost	mmost:// or mmosts://	(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
Microsoft Teams	msteams://	(TCP) 443	msteams://TokenA/TokenB/TokenC/
MQTT	mqtt:// or mqtts://	(TCP) 1883 or 8883	mqtt://hostname/topic mqtt://user@hostname/topic mqtts://user:pass@hostname:9883/topic
Nextcloud	ncloud:// or nclouds://	(TCP) 80 or 443	ncloud://adminuser:pass@host/User nclouds://adminuser:pass@host/User1/User2/UserN
NextcloudTalk	nctalk:// or nctalks://	(TCP) 80 or 443	nctalk://user:pass@host/RoomId nctalks://user:pass@host/RoomId1/RoomId2/RoomIdN
Notica	notica://	(TCP) 443	notica://Token/
Notifico	notifico://	(TCP) 443	notifico://ProjectID/MessageHook/
ntfy	ntfy://	(TCP) 80 or 443	ntfy://topic/ ntfys://topic/
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://AppID@APIKey/PlayerID onesignal://TemplateID:AppID@APIKey/UserID onesignal://AppID@APIKey/#IncludeSegment onesignal://AppID@APIKey/Email
Opsgenie	opsgenie://	(TCP) 443	opsgenie://APIKey opsgenie://APIKey/UserID opsgenie://APIKey/#Team opsgenie://APIKey/*Schedule opsgenie://APIKey/^Escalation
PagerDuty	pagerduty://	(TCP) 443	pagerduty://IntegrationKey@ApiKey pagerduty://IntegrationKey@ApiKey/Source/Component
ParsePlatform	parsep:// or parseps://	(TCP) 80 or 443	parsep://AppID:MasterKey@Hostname parseps://AppID:MasterKey@Hostname
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/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://hostname/secret pjet://hostname:port/secret pjets://secret@hostname/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://user@token pover://user@token/DEVICE pover://user@token/DEVICE1/DEVICE2/DEVICEN Note: you must specify both your user_id 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:password@app_id/app_secret/subreddit reddit://user:password@app_id/app_secret/sub1/sub2/subN
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 rocket://webhook@hostname rockets://webhook@hostname/@User/#Channel
Ryver	ryver://	(TCP) 443	ryver://Organization/Token ryver://botname@Organization/Token
SendGrid	sendgrid://	(TCP) 443	sendgrid://APIToken:FromEmail/ sendgrid://APIToken:FromEmail/ToEmail sendgrid://APIToken:FromEmail/ToEmail1/ToEmail2/ToEmailN/
ServerChan	schan://	(TCP) 443	schan://sendkey/
Signal API	signal:// or signals://	(TCP) 80 or 443	signal://hostname:port/FromPhoneNo signal://hostname:port/FromPhoneNo/ToPhoneNo signal://hostname:port/FromPhoneNo/ToPhoneNo1/ToPhoneNo2/ToPhoneNoN/
SimplePush	spush://	(TCP) 443	spush://apikey spush://salt:password@apikey spush://apikey?event=Apprise
Slack	slack://	(TCP) 443	slack://TokenA/TokenB/TokenC/ slack://TokenA/TokenB/TokenC/Channel slack://botname@TokenA/TokenB/TokenC/Channel slack://user@TokenA/TokenB/TokenC/Channel1/Channel2/ChannelN
SMTP2Go	smtp2go://	(TCP) 443	smtp2go://user@hostname/apikey smtp2go://user@hostname/apikey/email smtp2go://user@hostname/apikey/email1/email2/emailN smtp2go://user@hostname/apikey/?name="From%20User"
Streamlabs	strmlabs://	(TCP) 443	strmlabs://AccessToken/ strmlabs://AccessToken/?name=name&identifier=identifier&amount=0&currency=USD
SparkPost	sparkpost://	(TCP) 443	sparkpost://user@hostname/apikey sparkpost://user@hostname/apikey/email sparkpost://user@hostname/apikey/email1/email2/emailN sparkpost://user@hostname/apikey/?name="From%20User"
Spontit	spontit://	(TCP) 443	spontit://UserID@APIKey/ spontit://UserID@APIKey/Channel spontit://UserID@APIKey/Channel1/Channel2/ChannelN
Syslog	syslog://	(UDP) 514 (if hostname specified)	syslog:// syslog://Facility syslog://hostname syslog://hostname/Facility
Telegram	tgram://	(TCP) 443	tgram://bottoken/ChatID tgram://bottoken/ChatID1/ChatID2/ChatIDN
Twitter	twitter://	(TCP) 443	twitter://CKey/CSecret/AKey/ASecret twitter://user@CKey/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://user@hostname xbmc://user:password@hostname:port
Webex Teams (Cisco)	wxteams://	(TCP) 443	wxteams://Token
Zulip Chat	zulip://	(TCP) 443	zulip://botname@Organization/Token zulip://botname@Organization/Token/Stream zulip://botname@Organization/Token/Email

SMS Notifications

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
BulkSMS	bulksms://	(TCP) 443	bulksms://user:password@ToPhoneNo bulksms://User:Password@ToPhoneNo1/ToPhoneNo2/ToPhoneNoN/
ClickSend	clicksend://	(TCP) 443	clicksend://user:pass@PhoneNo clicksend://user:pass@ToPhoneNo1/ToPhoneNo2/ToPhoneNoN
DAPNET	dapnet://	(TCP) 80	dapnet://user:pass@callsign dapnet://user:pass@callsign1/callsign2/callsignN
D7 Networks	d7sms://	(TCP) 443	d7sms://user:pass@PhoneNo d7sms://user:pass@ToPhoneNo1/ToPhoneNo2/ToPhoneNoN
DingTalk	dingtalk://	(TCP) 443	dingtalk://token/ dingtalk://token/ToPhoneNo dingtalk://token/ToPhoneNo1/ToPhoneNo2/ToPhoneNo1/
Kavenegar	kavenegar://	(TCP) 443	kavenegar://ApiKey/ToPhoneNo kavenegar://FromPhoneNo@ApiKey/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://SenderID@AuthKey/ToPhoneNo msg91://AuthKey/ToPhoneNo1/ToPhoneNo2/ToPhoneNoN/
Signal API	signal:// or signals://	(TCP) 80 or 443	signal://hostname:port/FromPhoneNo signal://hostname:port/FromPhoneNo/ToPhoneNo signal://hostname:port/FromPhoneNo/ToPhoneNo1/ToPhoneNo2/ToPhoneNoN/
Sinch	sinch://	(TCP) 443	sinch://ServicePlanId:ApiToken@FromPhoneNo sinch://ServicePlanId:ApiToken@FromPhoneNo/ToPhoneNo sinch://ServicePlanId:ApiToken@FromPhoneNo/ToPhoneNo1/ToPhoneNo2/ToPhoneNoN/ sinch://ServicePlanId:ApiToken@ShortCode/ToPhoneNo sinch://ServicePlanId:ApiToken@ShortCode/ToPhoneNo1/ToPhoneNo2/ToPhoneNoN/
SMSEagle	smseagle:// or smseagles://	(TCP) 80 or 443	smseagles://hostname:port/ToPhoneNo smseagles://hostname:port/@ToContact smseagles://hostname:port/#ToGroup smseagles://hostname:port/ToPhoneNo1/#ToGroup/@ToContact/
Twilio	twilio://	(TCP) 443	twilio://AccountSid:AuthToken@FromPhoneNo twilio://AccountSid:AuthToken@FromPhoneNo/ToPhoneNo twilio://AccountSid:AuthToken@FromPhoneNo/ToPhoneNo1/ToPhoneNo2/ToPhoneNoN/ twilio://AccountSid:AuthToken@FromPhoneNo/ToPhoneNo?apikey=Key twilio://AccountSid:AuthToken@ShortCode/ToPhoneNo twilio://AccountSid:AuthToken@ShortCode/ToPhoneNo1/ToPhoneNo2/ToPhoneNoN/
Vonage (formerly Nexmo)	nexmo://	(TCP) 443	nexmo://ApiKey:ApiSecret@FromPhoneNo nexmo://ApiKey:ApiSecret@FromPhoneNo/ToPhoneNo nexmo://ApiKey:ApiSecret@FromPhoneNo/ToPhoneNo1/ToPhoneNo2/ToPhoneNoN/

Desktop Notifications

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 Notifications

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
Form	form:// or form://	(TCP) 80 or 443	form://hostname form://user@hostname form://user:password@hostname:port form://hostname/a/path/to/post/to
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

Apprise is also packaged as an RPM and available through EPEL supporting CentOS, Redhat, Rocky, Oracle Linux, etc.

# Follow instructions on https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/epel
# to get your system connected up to EPEL and then:
# Redhat/CentOS 7.x users
yum install apprise

# Redhat/CentOS 8.x+ and/or Fedora Users
dnf install apprise

You can also check out the Graphical version of Apprise to centralize your configuration and notifications through a managable webpage.

Command Line Usage

A small command line interface (CLI) tool is also provided with this package called apprise. If you know the server urls 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
# 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: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 -vv -t 'cpu info' \
   'mailto://myemail:mypass@gmail.com'

# The title field is totally optional
uptime | apprise -vv \
   'discord:///4174216298/JHMHI8qBe7bk2ZwO5U711o3dV_js'

CLI 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.

# By default if no url or configuration is specified apprise will attempt to load
# configuration files (if present) from:
#  ~/.apprise
#  ~/.apprise.yml
#  ~/.config/apprise
#  ~/.config/apprise.yml

# Also a subdirectory handling allows you to leverage plugins
#  ~/.apprise/apprise
#  ~/.apprise/apprise.yml
#  ~/.config/apprise/apprise
#  ~/.config/apprise/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

CLI File Attachments

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

# 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:mypass@gmail.com'

# 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

CLI Loading Custom Notifications/Hooks

To create your own custom schema:// hook so that you can trigger your own custom code, simply include the @notify decorator to wrap your function.

from apprise.decorators import notify
#
# The below assumes you want to catch foobar:// calls:
#
@notify(on="foobar", name="My Custom Foobar Plugin")
def my_custom_notification_wrapper(body, title, notify_type, *args, **kwargs):
    """My custom notification function that triggers on all foobar:// calls
    """
    # Write all of your code here... as an example...
    print("{}: {} - {}".format(notify_type.upper(), title, body))

    # Returning True/False is a way to relay your status back to Apprise.
    # Returning nothing (None by default) is always interpreted as a Success

Once you've defined your custom hook, you just need to tell Apprise where it is at runtime.

# By default if no plugin path is specified apprise will attempt to load
# all plugin files (if present) from the following directory paths:
#  ~/.apprise/plugins
#  ~/.config/apprise/plugins

# Windows users can store their default plugin files in these directories:
#  %APPDATA%/Apprise/plugins
#  %LOCALAPPDATA%/Apprise/plugins

# If you placed your plugin file within one of the directories already defined
# above, then your call simply needs to look like:
apprise -vv --title 'custom override' \
        --body 'the body of my message' \
        foobar:\\

# However you can over-ride the path like so
apprise -vv --title 'custom override' \
        --body 'the body of my message' \
        --plugin-path /path/to/my/plugin.py \
        foobar:\\

You can read more about creating your own custom notifications and/or hooks here.

Developer API Usage

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://myuserid: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',
)

API 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.

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:mypass@hotmail.com', 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 (regardless 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, regardless on wether
    # it has a tag associated with it or not:
    tag='all',
)

API File Attachments

Attachments are very easy to send using the Apprise API:

import apprise

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

# Add at least one service you want to notify
apobj.add('mailto://myuser:mypass@hotmail.com')

# 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:password@hikvision-cam01/ISAPI/Streaming/channels/101/picture?cache=3'
)

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

import apprise

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

# Add at least one service you want to notify
apobj.add('mailto://myuser:mypass@hotmail.com')

# Now add all of the entries we're interested 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,
)

API Loading Custom Notifications/Hooks

By default, no custom plugins are loaded at all for those building from within the Apprise API. It's at the developers discretion to load custom modules. But should you choose to do so, it's as easy as including the path reference in the AppriseAsset() object prior to the initialization of your Apprise() instance.

For example:

from apprise import Apprise
from apprise import AppriseAsset

# Prepare your Asset object so that you can enable the custom plugins to
# be loaded for your instance of Apprise...
asset = AppriseAsset(plugin_paths="/path/to/scan")

# OR You can also generate scan more then one file too:
asset = AppriseAsset(
    plugin_paths=[
        # Iterate over all python libraries found in the root of the
        # specified path. This is NOT a recursive (directory) scan; only
        # the first level is parsed. HOWEVER, if a directory containing
        # an __init__.py is found, it will be included in the load.
        "/dir/containing/many/python/libraries",

        # An absolute path to a plugin.py to exclusively load
        "/path/to/plugin.py",

        # if you point to a directory that has an __init__.py file found in
        # it, then only that file is loaded (it's similar to point to a
        # absolute .py file. Hence, there is no (level 1) scanning at all
        # within the directory specified.
        "/path/to/dir/library"
    ]
)

# Now that we've got our asset, we just work with our Apprise object as we
# normally do
aobj = Apprise(asset=asset)

# If our new custom `foobar://` library was loaded (presuming we prepared
# one like in the examples above).  then you would be able to safely add it
# into Apprise at this point
aobj.add('foobar://')

# Send our notification out through our foobar://
aobj.notify("test")

You can read more about creating your own custom notifications and/or hooks here.

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
• ⚡ Create Your Own Custom Notifications
• 🌎 Apprise API/Web Interface
• 🎉 Showcase

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