Uptime Kuma - Restore a back up via the API

uptime_kuma_restore.py

import json
import os
from uptime_kuma_api import UptimeKumaApi, MonitorType

def load_notification_params(data):
    """
    Load notification parameters from data and add monitors to Uptime Kuma.
    
    This function iterates over a list of dictionaries, each representing a monitor's configuration,
    and adds them to Uptime Kuma using its API. It filters out certain keys from each dictionary
    before adding the monitor.
    """
    # Initialize the Uptime Kuma API client with the URL from environment variables
    api = UptimeKumaApi(os.getenv('UPTIME_KUMA_URL'))
    try:
        # Login to the API using credentials from environment variables
        api.login(os.getenv('UPTIME_KUMA_USER'), os.getenv('UPTIME_KUMA_PASSWORD'))
        for entry in data:
            # Filter out unwanted keys from the monitor configuration
            params = {key: value for key, value in entry.items() if key not in ["id", "description", "active", "forceInactive", "dns_last_result", "tags", "maintenance", "screenshot", "pushToken", "includeSensitiveData"]}
            # If the monitor type is specified, set it to HTTP, otherwise ping
            if "type" in params:
                if params["type"] == "http":
                    params["type"] = MonitorType.HTTP
                else:
                    params["type"] = MonitorType.PING
            # Debugging: Print current notifications to console
            print(api.get_notifications())
            # Add the monitor with the filtered parameters
            api.add_monitor(**params)
    except Exception as e:
        # Handle any exceptions that occur during the API calls
        print(f"Failed to add monitor: {e}")
    finally:
        # Ensure the API client disconnects from the server even if an error occurs
        api.disconnect()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    try:
        # Load monitor configurations from a JSON file
        # You can reate this from exporting a backup. 
        with open("backup.json", "r") as file:
            data = json.load(file)
        load_notification_params(data)
    except FileNotFoundError:
        # Handle the case where the backup.json file does not exist
        print("backup.json file not found.")
    except json.JSONDecodeError:
        # Handle errors in decoding the JSON file
        print("Error decoding JSON from backup.json.")

Pretty sure this works as is. Banged it up to insert the records from a backup back into Uptime Kuma. I did a backup, didn't notice the note it shouldn't work, and then removed everything only to realize I couldn't restore. This is hacky but works.