Ruby script to trigger incidents using the API.

pd-trigger-incident.rb

# Ruby script to create events using the API.
#
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require 'json'

subdomain="insert_subdomain"
api_key="insert_api_key"

endpoint="https://events.pagerduty.com/generic/2010-04-15/create_event.json"
service_access_key="insert_access_key"
incident_key="insert_incident_name_optional"
subject="Insert a title here to summarize your incident; use the hash format below to include details."
details_hash={"insert_thing1" => "insert_detail1", "insert_thing2" => "insert_detail2"} 

def curl_command_post_schedules(token_string,schedule_json,endpoint)
    curl_command='curl -H "Content-type: application/json" -X POST -d '+schedule_json+' "'+endpoint+'"'
end

def hash_to_json(hash)
  string=""
  hash.each do |key,value|
    string+="\"#{key}\": \"#{value}\", "
  end
  string
end
    
sched_json= '\'{ 
              "service_key": "'+service_access_key+'", 
              "event_type": "trigger", 
              "description": "'+subject+'", 
              "details": { '+hash_to_json(details_hash)+' } 
              }\''
#             "incident_key": "'+incident_key+'", 
#this can be included if you'd like to define the incident key; just remove the # to uncomment, and paste the line
#below the "service_key" line
               
curl_string = curl_command_post_schedules(api_key,sched_json,endpoint)
puts curl_string

system(curl_string)

def pipe_to_script(curl_string)
  IO.popen(curl_string).each do |line|
    parsed=JSON.parse(line)
    puts parsed
  end
end