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+# A Basic Apprise Notification Example
+This example shows a basic template of how one might build a Notification Service that does a task as simple as writing to `stdout` (Standard Out)
+
+It's very important to save the `apprise/plugins/NotifyServiceName.py` to be exactly the name of the `NotifyServiceName` class you define within it.  In this example, the class is `NotifyDemo`.  This implies that the filename to activate this (and make it usable in Apprise) must be called `apprise/plugins/NotifyDemo.py`.
+
+## The Code
+```python
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+from .NotifyBase import NotifyBase
+from ..common import NotifyType
+
+
+class NotifyDemo(NotifyBase):
+    """
+    A Sample/Demo Notifications
+    """
+
+    # The default descriptive name associated with the Notification
+    service_name = 'Apprise Demo Notification'
+
+    # The default protocol/schema
+    # This will be what triggers your service to be activated when
+    # protocol:// is specified (in example demo:// will activate
+    # this service).
+    protocol = 'demo'
+
+    # A URL that takes you to the setup/help of the specific protocol
+    # This is for new-comers who will want to learn how they can
+    # use your service.  Ideally you should point to somewhere on
+    # the 'https://github.com/caronc/apprise/wiki/
+    setup_url = 'https://github.com/caronc/apprise/wiki/Notify_Demo'
+
+    # This disables throttling by default for this simple plugin.
+    request_rate_per_sec = 0
+
+    #
+    # Templating Section
+    #
+    # 1. `templates`: Identify the way you can use your plugin.
+    #    This example is rather simple, so there isn't really much to do
+    #    here.  Check out the other demo's to see where this gets a bit more
+    #    advanced.
+    #
+    templates = (
+        '{schema}://',
+    )
+
+    # For the reasons above, we only need to identify apikey here:
+    def __init__(self, **kwargs):
+        """
+        Initialize Demo Object
+
+        """
+        # Always call super() so that parent clases can set up.  Make
+        # sure to only pass in **kwargs
+        super(NotifyDemo, self).__init__(**kwargs)
+
+        #
+        # Now you can write any initialization you want; if you have nothing to
+        # initialize then you can skip the definition of the __init__()
+        # function all together.
+        #
+        return
+
+    def url(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        """
+        Returns the URL built dynamically based on specified arguments.
+        """
+
+        # Always call self.url_parameters() at some point.
+        # This allows your Apprise URL to handle the common/global
+        # parameters that are used by Apprise. This is for consistency
+        # more than anything:
+        params = self.url_parameters(*args, **kwargs)
+
+        # Basically we need to write back a URL that looks exactly like
+        # the one we parsed to build from scratch.
+
+        # If we can parse a URL and rebuild it the way it once was,
+        # Administrators who use Apprise don't need to pay attention to all
+        # of your custom and unique tokens (from on service to another).
+        # they only need to store Apprise URL's in their database.
+
+        return '{schema}://?{params}'.format(
+            schema=self.protocol,
+            params=self.urlencode(params),
+        )
+
+    def send(self, body, title='', notify_type=NotifyType.INFO, **kwargs):
+        """
+        Perform Demo Notification
+        """
+
+        #
+        # Always call throttle before any remote server i/o is made
+        #
+        self.throttle()
+
+        # Perform your notification here; in this example, we just send the
+        # output to `stdout`:
+        print('{type} - {title} - {body}'.format(
+            type=notify_type, title=title, body=body))
+
+        return True
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def parse_url(url):
+        """
+        Parses the URL and returns enough arguments that can allow
+        us to re-instantiate this object.
+
+        """
+        # If you're URL does not define what is considered a valid host after
+        # your' schema/protocol such as this plugin example (demo://) where the
+        # hostname isn't even required, then set the verify_host to False
+        results = NotifyBase.parse_url(url, verify_host=False)
+        if not results:
+            # We're done early as we couldn't parse the URL
+            return results
+
+        # Handle any additional parsing here if you want
+        # make sure to write all your changes/updates back into the results
+        # dictionary
+
+        # The contents of our results (a dictionary) will become
+        # the arguments passed into the __init__() function we defined above.
+        return results
+```
+
+## Testing
+You can test your **NotifyDemo** class using the `demo://` schema:
+```bash
+# using the `apprise` found in the local bin directory allows you to test
+# the new plugin right away. Use the `demo://` schema we defined.  You can also
+# set a couple of extra `-v` switches to add some verbosity to the output:
+./bin/apprise -vvv -t test -b message demo://
+```
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