post-commit hook for svn to notify pivotaltracker (see https://www.pivotaltracker.com/help/api?version=v5#Tracker_Updates_in_SCM_Post_Commit_Hooks)

pivotal_notify.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
#
# post-commit hook for svn to notify pivotaltracker
#
# Posts commit to pivotal to enable auto-tracking of commits. Adds viewvc link if url provided. Place in SVN/hooks/post-commit as follows
#
# pivotal_notify.py -v "http://SVNSERVER/BIN/viewvc.cgi" "$REPOS" "$REV" "$PIVOTAL_API_TOKEN"
#

from xml.sax.saxutils import escape
import os,sys,getopt
import urllib2

def usage(reason):
    if (reason):
        print "ERR: "+reason
    print "pivotal-notify.py [-v VIEWVC] REPO REV TOKEN"
    sys.exit(2)

def svnlook(cmd,repo,rev):
    return os.popen("/usr/bin/svnlook "+cmd+" "+repo+" -r "+REV).read();

def pivotal_notify(path,token,data):
    httpReq=urllib2.Request(url="https://www.pivotaltracker.com"+path,
                      data=data,
                      headers={'Content-Type'   : 'application/xml',
                               'X-TrackerToken' : token})
    return urllib2.urlopen(httpReq).read()

# Config

# SVN Commit Hook

try:
    opts,args=getopt.getopt(sys.argv[1:],"v:")
except getopt.GetoptError,err:
    usage(err)

if len(args)!=3:
    usage("incorrect number of arguments")

VIEWVC=None

for o,a in opts:
    if o=="-v":
        VIEWVC=a
    else:
        usage("unsupported argument")

REPO=args[0]
REV=args[1]
PIVOTAL_TOKEN=args[2]

author=svnlook("author",REPO,REV).strip()
commitMsg=svnlook("log",REPO,REV).strip()

# Message
url=""
if (VIEWVC):
    url='<url>'+escape(VIEWVC+"?view=rev&revision="+REV)+'</url>'

request='<source_commit><message>'+escape(commitMsg)+'</message><author>'+escape(author)+'</author><commit_id>'+REV+'</commit_id>'+url+'</source_commit>'
response=pivotal_notify("/services/v5/source_commits",PIVOTAL_TOKEN,request)

Updated for pivotal api v5 / https endpoint