gistfile1.txt

import urllib
import hashlib
from google.appengine.api import urlfetch

API_KEY = "[REPLACE WITH YOUR API KEY]"

# More information on how notify.io notification sending works - 
# http://groups.google.com/group/notify-io/web/developers

payload= {'text' : "some text", 
          'title' : "title", 
          'icon' :  "icon",
          'link' : "link"}

to = "[REPLACE WITH USER EMAIL]"

# Get the email, hash it send with notify.io
m = hashlib.md5()
m.update(to)
url = "http://api.notify.io/v1/notify/" + m.hexdigest()
        
authString = 'Basic ' + base64.b64encode(  API_KEY + ":string")
        
payload= urllib.urlencode(payload)
data = urlfetch.fetch(url, payload=payload, method=urlfetch.POST, headers={'Authorization' : authString})