Add new Heartbeat-based check to Uptimerobot.com using API

uptimerobot-add-check.sh

#!/bin/bash

api_key="u123456-qa9oic80zsll1xi0fhbwso1"
alert_contacts="0123456_0_0-2761234_0_0"
baseurl="https://serverfarmer.home.pl/heartbeat/query.php"
db="id_myaccount.txt"

# 300 for free accounts, 60 for paid accounts
interval=300


host=$1
service=$2

safehost=`echo $1 |tr '.' '_'`
short=`echo $1 |cut -d'.' -f1`

friendly_name="$short - $service"
id="${service}_${safehost}"
url="$baseurl?id=$id"

if grep -qFx $id $db; then
    echo "id $id already added"
    exit 0
fi

echo "attempting to add: \"$friendly_name\""

if [ "$3" != "--execute" ]; then
    exit 0
fi

echo "url: $url"
echo "ctx: $alert_contacts"

curl -s -X POST \
    -H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" \
    -H "Cache-Control: no-cache" \
    -d "api_key=$api_key&format=json" \
    -d "type=2&keyword_type=2&keyword_value=ALIVE&interval=$interval" \
    -d "url=$url" \
    -d "friendly_name=$friendly_name" \
    -d "alert_contacts=$alert_contacts" \
    "https://api.uptimerobot.com/v2/newMonitor" |python -m json.tool

echo $id >>$db