caronc/apprise

How It Works

Table of Contents

Supported Notifications

Productivity Based Notifications

SMS Notifications

Desktop Notifications

Email Notifications

Custom Notifications

Installation

pip install apprise

# Install the apprise command
uv tool install apprise

# Or add it to your own project
uv add apprise

# 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/Rocky Linux 8.x+ and/or Fedora Users
dnf install apprise

Command Line Usage

# Send to several services. The -vv option shows additional details.
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

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

# Also subdirectory handling allows you to leverage plugins
#  ~/.apprise/apprise
#  ~/.apprise/apprise.yaml
#  ~/.config/apprise/apprise.conf
#  ~/.config/apprise/apprise.yaml
#  /etc/apprise/apprise.yaml
#  /etc/apprise/apprise.conf

# Windows users can store their default configuration files here:
#  %APPDATA%/Apprise/apprise.conf
#  %APPDATA%/Apprise/apprise.yaml
#  %LOCALAPPDATA%/Apprise/apprise.conf
#  %LOCALAPPDATA%/Apprise/apprise.yaml
#  %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Apprise\apprise.conf
#  %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Apprise\apprise.yaml
#  %PROGRAMFILES%\Apprise\apprise.conf
#  %PROGRAMFILES%\Apprise\apprise.yaml
#  %COMMONPROGRAMFILES%\Apprise\apprise.conf
#  %COMMONPROGRAMFILES%\Apprise\apprise.yaml

# The configuration files specified above can also be identified with a `.yml`
# extension or even just entirely removing the `.conf` extension altogether.

# 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 Template Variables

template:
  # A default is used unless the call supplies a value
  smtp_host: smtp.example.com
  # No default: the call or environment must fill this name
  api_key:

urls:
  - sendgrid://${API_KEY}:noreply@example.com/you@example.com:
      - tag: alerts

# Supply it directly
apprise --config=apprise.yml --tag=alerts \
   --template-var api_key=your-secret-key \
   --body="Hello"

# Or leave it in the environment
export APPRISE_TEMPLATE_API_KEY=your-secret-key
apprise --config=apprise.yml --tag=alerts --body="Hello"

CLI Tagging Support

# OR Logic: Notify any service tagged 'devops' OR 'admin'
apprise -vv -t "Union Test" \
   --config=~/apprise.yml \
   -g devops -g admin

# AND Logic: Notify only services tagged with BOTH 'devops' AND 'critical'
apprise -vv -t "Intersection Test" \
   --config=~/apprise.yml \
   -g devops,critical

# Escalation: priority-1 first; skip priority-5 if all succeed
apprise -vv -t "Alert" --config=~/apprise.yml -g alerts

# Exclusive: only priority-2 alert services
apprise -vv -t "Alert" --config=~/apprise.yml -g "2:alerts"

# With retry override: retry each matched service up to 3 times
apprise -vv -t "Alert" --config=~/apprise.yml -g "alerts:3"

CLI File Attachments

# 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

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

# 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
#  /var/lib/apprise/plugins

# Windows users can store their default plugin files in these directories:
#  %APPDATA%/Apprise/plugins
#  %LOCALAPPDATA%/Apprise/plugins
#  %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Apprise\plugins
#  %PROGRAMFILES%\Apprise\plugins
#  %COMMONPROGRAMFILES%\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 override the path like so
apprise -vv --title 'custom override' \
        --body 'the body of my message' \
        --plugin-path /path/to/my/plugin.py \
        foobar:\\

CLI Environment Variables

Developer API Usage

import apprise

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

# Add notification services by 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

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 whether
    # it has a tag associated with it or not:
    tag='all',
)

API Template Variables

apobj.notify(
    body='what a great notification service!',
    title='my notification title',
    template={'api_key': 'your-secret-key'},
)

asset = apprise.AppriseAsset(allow_templates=False)
config = apprise.AppriseConfig(asset=asset)
apobj = apprise.Apprise(asset=asset)
apobj.add(config)

API File Attachments

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'
)

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

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")

Persistent Storage

CLI Persistent Storage Commands

# List all of the occupied space used by Apprise's Persistent Storage:
apprise storage list

# list is the default option, so the following does the same thing:
apprise storage

# You can prune all of your storage older then 30 days
# and not accessed for this period like so:
apprise storage prune

# You can do a hard reset (and wipe all persistent storage) with:
apprise storage clean

   # example output of 'apprise storage list':
   1. f7077a65                                             0.00B    unused
      - matrixs://abcdef:****@synapse.example12.com/%23general?image=no&mode=off&version=3&msgtype...
      tags: team

   2. 0e873a46                                            81.10B    active
      - tgram://W...U//?image=False&detect=yes&silent=no&preview=no&content=before&mdv=v1&format=m...
      tags: personal

   3. abcd123                                             12.00B    stale

# The below commands continue with the example already identified above
# the following would match abcd123 (even though just ab was provided)
# The output would only list the 'stale' entry above
apprise storage list ab

# knowing our filter is safe, we could remove it
# the below command would not obstruct our other to URLs and would only
# remove our stale one:
apprise storage clean ab

# Entries can be filtered by tag as well:
apprise storage list --tag=team

# You can match on multiple URL ID's as well:
# The followin would actually match the URL ID's of 1. and .2 above
apprise storage list f 0

API Persistent Storage Commands

from apprise import Apprise
from apprise import AppriseAsset
from apprise import PersistentStoreMode

# Prepare a location the persistent storage can write it's cached content to.
# By setting this path, this immediately assumes you wish to operate the
# persistent storage in the operational 'auto' mode
asset = AppriseAsset(storage_path="/path/to/save/data")

# If you want to be more explicit and set more options, then you may do the
# following
asset = AppriseAsset(
    # Set our storage path directory (minimum requirement to enable it)
    storage_path="/path/to/save/data",

    # Set the mode... the options are:
    # 1. PersistentStoreMode.MEMORY
    #       - disable persistent storage from writing to disk
    # 2. PersistentStoreMode.AUTO
    #       - write to disk on demand
    # 3. PersistentStoreMode.FLUSH
    #       - write to disk always and often
    storage_mode=PersistentStoreMode.FLUSH

    # The URL IDs are by default 8 characters in length. You can increase and
    # decrease it's value here.  The value must be > 2. The default value is 8
    # if not otherwise specified
    storage_idlen=8,
)

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

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