Post to Howl (http://howlapp.com) from Python

pyhowl.py

"""
pyhowl - Post to Howl (http://howlapp.com)

Copyright (c) 2011, Jeff Triplett
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Inspiration / optparse modified from @zacharyvoase via:
    https://gist.github.com/141757

"""
import optparse
import requests


class HowlEvent(object):

    """ Class representing a single Howl event."""

    DEFAULT_USER_AGENT = 'PyHowl/0.1'

    def __init__(self, application, name, title, description):
        self.application = application
        self.name = name
        self.title = title
        self.description = description

    @property
    def url(self):
        url = 'https://howlapp.com/public/api/notification'
        return url

    def request(self, username, password, user_agent=DEFAULT_USER_AGENT):
        request = requests.post(self.url,
            auth=(username, password),
            headers={'User-agent': user_agent},
            data={
                'application': self.application,
                'name': self.name,
                'title': self.title,
                'description': self.description,
                'icon-md5': 'dc0f5209059a0e7f3ff298680f98bc1b',
                'icon-sha1': '22339dd6e17eb099ed023c72bd7b5deaf785f2bb',
            }
        )
        return request

OPTION_PARSER = optparse.OptionParser(version='0.1')
OPTION_PARSER.add_option('-u', '--username', help='Howl username')
OPTION_PARSER.add_option('-p', '--password', help='Howl password')
OPTION_PARSER.add_option('-a', '--application', default="PyHowl",
    help='Name of source application (default "PyHowl")')
OPTION_PARSER.add_option('-n', '--name', help='Name of event')
OPTION_PARSER.add_option('-t', '--title', help='Title of event')
OPTION_PARSER.add_option('-d', '--description', help='Description of event')
OPTION_PARSER.add_option('-g', '--user-agent',
    default=HowlEvent.DEFAULT_USER_AGENT,
    help='User-agent string (default "%s")' % HowlEvent.DEFAULT_USER_AGENT)


def main():
    options, args = OPTION_PARSER.parse_args()

    event = HowlEvent(options.application, options.name, options.title,
        options.description)
    request = event.request(options.username, options.password,
        user_agent=options.user_agent)

    if request.status_code == 401:
        print 'Notification posting failed (invalid username or password)'
        raise SystemExit(1)

    print 'Notification successfully posted.'


if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()