Python script to trigger incidents using the API.

pd-trigger-incident.py

# Python script to create events using the API.
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import os 

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_key"
subject="Insert a title here to summarize your incident; use the dictionary format below to include details."
details_dict={"insert_thing1":"insert_detail1", "insert_thing2":"insert_detail2"} 
print details_dict

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

def dict_to_json(hash):
  string=""
  for key in details_dict:
    string+="\"" + key + "\": \"" + details_dict[key] + "\", "
  return string
    
sched_dict=dict_to_json(details_dict)

sched_json= "'{ \
              \"service_key\": \""  + service_access_key + "\", \
              \"incident_key\": \"" + incident_key + "\", \
              \"event_type\": \"trigger\", \
              \"description\": \"" + subject + "\", \
              \"details\": {" + sched_dict + "}   }'"


curl_string = curl_command_post_schedules(api_key,sched_json,endpoint)
print curl_string
os.system(curl_string)