Send a success or failure push notification from my slow build machine to my phone using Parse.com. When I get a push notification I know to go back to my terminal. The python is pretty much cut and paste from Parse's Rest API tutorial. An example: #Use build.sh instead of make build.sh 2>&1 | tee foo

build.sh

#!/bin/bash

my_pwd=`pwd`
run_make_from_pwd="(cd ${my_pwd} && make)"
python ~/bin/push_build_status.py "${run_make_from_pwd}"

parse_push_notify_build.py

import json,httplib
import os

#From the Dashboard of your Parse app 
APPLICATION_ID = "CHANGE ME"
REST_API_KEY   = "CHANGE ME TOO"

COMMAND_SUCCESS_MESSAGE = "BUILD Finished"
COMMAND_FAILED_MESSAGE  = "BUILD Failed"

def run_system_command(cmd):
    return os.system(cmd)

def send_push_notification(msg):
    connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
    connection.connect()
    connection.request('POST', '/1/push', json.dumps({
                "channels": [""
                             ],
                "data": {
                    "alert": msg,
                    "sound": "default"
                    }
                }), {
            "X-Parse-Application-Id": APPLICATION_ID,
            "X-Parse-REST-API-Key": REST_API_KEY,
            "Content-Type": "application/json"
            })
    result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
    
if __name__ == "__main__":
    try:
        command = os.sys.argv[1]
        result = run_system_command(command)
        if result == 0:
            send_push_notification( COMMAND_SUCCESS_MESSAGE)
        else:
            send_push_notification(COMMAND_FAILED_MESSAGE)
    except IndexError:
        print "Please provide a command to run" 
        exit(1)