Prowl notifcation script

gistfile1.py

#!/usr/bin/python
from optparse import OptionParser
import sys
import urllib2
import urllib

description = sys.stdin.read()

parser = OptionParser()
parser.add_option('-k', '--key', dest='key',
                help='prowl api-key')
parser.add_option('-a', '--application', dest='app',
                help='the application responsible for the message')
parser.add_option('-e', '--event', dest='event',
                help='the event message')
parser.add_option('-p', '--priority', dest='prio', default='0',
                help='message priority')
(options, args) = parser.parse_args()


def build_prowl_url(key, app, event, desc, prio):
        params = urllib.urlencode({'apikey': key, 'application': app, 'event': event, 'priority': prio, 'description': desc})
        return 'https://api.prowlapp.com/publicapi/add?' + params

url = build_prowl_url(options.key, options.app, options.event, description, options.prio)
urllib2.urlopen(url)