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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).

System owners who wish to provide a notification service no longer need to research each and every new one as they appear. 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 who wish to send a notification from a scheduled task or from the command line also no longer need to find the right tool for the job. Everything is already wrapped and supported within the apprise script that ships with this product.

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/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
Dbus	dbus:// qt:// glib:// kde://	n/a	dbus:// qt:// glib:// kde://
Emby	emby:// or embys://	(TCP) 8096	emby://user@hostname/ emby://user:password@hostname
Faast	faast://	(TCP) 443	faast://authorizationtoken
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
Gnome	gnome://	n/a	gnome://
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
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
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://	(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/
Notica	notica://	(TCP) 443	notica://Token/
Notifico	notifico://	(TCP) 443	notifico://ProjectID/MessageHook/
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
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/
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
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://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
XMPP	xmpp:// or xmpps://	(TCP) 5222 or 5223	xmpp://password@hostname xmpp://user:password@hostname xmpps://user:password@hostname:port?jid=user@hostname/resource xmpps://password@hostname/target@myhost, target2@myhost/resource
Windows Notification	windows://	n/a	windows://
Webex Teams (Cisco)	wxteams://	(TCP) 443	wxteams://Token
Zulip Chat	zulip://	(TCP) 443	zulip://botname@Organization/Token zulip://botname@Organization/Token/Channel zulip://botname@Organization/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:pass@PhoneNo clicksend://user:pass@ToPhoneNo1/ToPhoneNo2/ToPhoneNoN
D7 Networks	d7sms://	(TCP) 443	d7sms://user:pass@PhoneNo d7sms://user:pass@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/
Nexmo	nexmo://	(TCP) 443	nexmo://ApiKey:ApiSecret@FromPhoneNo nexmo://ApiKey:ApiSecret@FromPhoneNo/ToPhoneNo nexmo://ApiKey:ApiSecret@FromPhoneNo/ToPhoneNo1/ToPhoneNo2/ToPhoneNoN/
Twilio	twilio://	(TCP) 443	twilio://AccountSid:AuthToken@FromPhoneNo twilio://AccountSid:AuthToken@FromPhoneNo/ToPhoneNo twilio://AccountSid:AuthToken@FromPhoneNo/ToPhoneNo1/ToPhoneNo2/ToPhoneNoN/ twilio://AccountSid:AuthToken@ShortCode/ToPhoneNo twilio://AccountSid:AuthToken@ShortCode/ToPhoneNo1/ToPhoneNo2/ToPhoneNoN/

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://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
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

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
# as you can easily chain one after another:
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'

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

Configuration Files

No one wants to put there 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 now if no url or configuration is specified aprise will
# peek for this data in:
#  ~/.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 -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 -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 -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.

# Send a funny image you found on the internet to a colleage:
apprise --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 --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:

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',
)

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 (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:

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, you just need another object:
from apprise import AppriseAttachment

# Initialize our attachment object
aa = AppriseAttachment()

# Now add all of the entries we're intrested in:
# ?name= allows us to rename the actual jpeg as found on the site
# to be another name when sent to our receipient(s)
aa.add('https://i.redd.it/my2t4d2fx0u31.jpg?name=FlyingToMars.jpg')

# Now add another:
aa.add('/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=aa,
    tag=friends
)

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 wiki at https://github.com/caronc/apprise/wiki/Development_API. You can also find more examples on how to use the command line tool at: https://github.com/caronc/apprise/wiki/CLI_Usage.