Pager.io API Example: Create Alert

create_alert.py

import urllib, urllib2, base64

team_name = 'My Pager.io Team Name'
api_key = 'My Pager.io API Key'
alert_subject = 'Test Alert'
alert_message = 'This is where you would put a longer alert message'

data = {'subject': alert_subject, 'message': alert_message}

base64string = base64.encodestring('%s:%s' % (team_name, api_key)).replace('\n', '')
request.add_header("Authorization", "Basic %s" % base64string)   

opener = urllib2.build_opener(urllib2.HTTPHandler)
request = urllib2.Request('https://pager.io/api/v1/alert', data=urllib.urlencode(data))
request.add_header('Content-Type', 'application/x-www-formurlencoded')
request.get_method = lambda: 'POST'
url = opener.open(request)