apcaccess (APCupsd) to Pachube python script

apc2pacube.py

#!/usr/bin/python

# Script to poll the UPS (via apcupsd) and publish interesting facts to
# pachube. You'll need to alter FEED_ID and insert your API key

# Published under GPL3+ by Andrew Elwell <Andrew.Elwell@gmail.com>


import subprocess # we scrape apcaccess output
import requests # CBA writing a pachube library
import json


interesting = ('linev', 'loadpct', 'battv', 'bcharge') 
payload = []

# go and grab
res = subprocess.check_output("/sbin/apcaccess")
for line in res.split('\n'):
    (key,spl,val) = line.partition(': ')
    key = key.rstrip().lower()
    if key in interesting: # just save what we want
        val = val.strip()
        val = val.split(' ',1)[0] # ignore anything after 1st space
        payload.append({'id':key, 'current_value':val})

# set up pachube connection
API_KEY = "YOUR API KEY"

#jsonify it
stream = json.dumps({"version":"1.0.0","datastreams": payload})

r = requests.put("http://api.pachube.com/v2/feeds/FEED_ID", headers = {"X-PachubeApiKey": API_KEY}, data=stream)

Just spotted this on a Google search and thought you might find a pure-Python version of apcaccess useful. https://github.com/flyte/apcaccess