This is a script that updates hipchat hooks on a github repository to only have a small set of actions they trigger based on (ie: push, issues).

update_github_hipchat_hook.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
"""
This is a script that updates hipchat hooks on github repository to only have a small set of actions they trigger based on.
created by Jehiah Czebotar 2013

Usage:

  update_github_hipchat_hook.py --repo=jehiah/json2csv --access_token={{...}}
"""

import tornado.options
import tornado.httpclient
import urllib
import urllib2
import simplejson as json

hook_events = {
    "push": "Any git push to a Repository.",
    "issues": "Any time an Issue is opened or closed.",
    "issue_comment": "Any time an Issue is commented on.",
    "commit_comment": "Any time a Commit is commented on.",
    "pull_request": "Any time a Pull Request is opened, closed, or synchronized (updated due to a new push in the branch that the pull request is tracking).",
    "gollum": "Any time a Wiki page is updated.",
    "watch": "Any time a User watches the Repository.",
    "download": "Any time a Download is added to the Repository.",
    "fork": "Any time a Repository is forked.",
    "fork_apply": "Any time a patch is applied to the Repository from the Fork Queue.",
    "member": "Any time a User is added as a collaborator to a non-Organization Repository.",
    "public": "Any time a Repository changes from private to public.",
    "status": "Any time a Repository has a status update from the API",
}

def update_hook(hook_id, config, events, repo, access_token):
    params = dict(access_token=access_token)
    url = "https://api.github.com/repos/%s/hooks/%s?%s" % (repo, hook_id, urllib.urlencode(params))
    body = dict(name="hipchat", config=config, events=events)
    request = urllib2.Request(url, data=json.dumps(body))
    request.get_method = lambda: 'PATCH'
    resp = urllib2.urlopen(request)
    body = resp.read()
    print resp.info(), body
    
def get_hooks(repo, access_token):
    http = tornado.httpclient.HTTPClient()
    params = dict(access_token=access_token)
    resp = http.fetch('https://api.github.com/repos/%s/hooks?%s' % (repo, urllib.urlencode(params)))
    return json.loads(resp.body)

def run(repo, access_token, events):
    for hook in get_hooks(repo, access_token):
        if hook['name'] != "hipchat":
            continue
        print hook
        update_hook(hook['id'], hook['config'], events, repo, access_token)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    tornado.options.define("repo", type=str, help="the user/repo combination")
    tornado.options.define('access_token', type=str, help="github OAuth access token")
    tornado.options.define("event", type=str, multiple=True, default=["push", "issues"], help="the events to set")
    tornado.options.parse_command_line()
    o = tornado.options.options
    for event in o.event:
        assert event in hook_events, "%s not in %s" % (event, hook_events.keys())
    assert o.repo, "missing --repo"
    assert o.access_token, "missing --access-token"
    run(o.repo, o.access_token, o.event)