Apprise Notifications

[robi]

@jdaviescoates that's a great circle find! well done

It could be a nice sidecar type container that box runs for all it's notifications which makes cloudron that much better by default..

[marcusquinn]

The Change Detection app also uses Apprise:

• https://github.com/dgtlmoon/changedetection.io#notifications
• https://forum.cloudron.io/category/149/change-detection

[A Former User]

Miniflux also uses apprise ! I'm interested to have it on Cloudron

[malvim]

Hi, everyone!

Is there still interest in this? I took a stab at packaging it just for personal use it and got it to work. And when I say "got it to work" I mean literally just got it to work:

• initialized a new cloudron app
• looked at apprise-api's code and other packaged apps for inspiration
• bashed everything into submission until it worked

I paid no attention whatsoever to documentation, production settings and the like. Also, the way it works now, there's no authentication or anything, it's just open on the internet. If anyone wanna take a look, give feedback and maybe help out ou the packaging, it's here:

https://github.com/malvim/apprise-api-cloudron-app

No sure what to do about authentication, maybe just use the proxyAuth addon, and keep open just the needed URLs for POSTing notifications? Have to think about that.

Thanks!

[girish]

Trying to wrap my head around this.. so Apprise is also a web service ? and not some python library?

[malvim]

Hi, @girish! So, there's apprise the lib, and Apprise API, a lightweight REST API that is essentially a wrapper around apprise.

Here:
This is apprise the lib: https://github.com/caronc/apprise
And this is apprise API: https://github.com/caronc/apprise-api

The cloudron app is my attempt at packaging it, which is working fine, although it's completely open to the internet, need to think about it a bit better.

Maybe on the next days I can open a proper app wishlist post, to get more visibility and see what people think about it.

[malvim]

Now that I read this thread properly, I don't think the packaged app will work as people are asking for here, which is for cloudron to use it for it's own notifications. Maybe if cloudron ran it as an internal container and add-on for other apps...

I still think it is a useful app to have packaged for Cloudron, so I'll keep working on the packaging effort.

[marcusquinn]

@malvim Yeah, would need to be an add-on service.

[girish]

@malvim yeah, I think there are separate things... One is for Cloudron to use Apprise library and send notifications . Another is a separate app package (that you have made one) that some other app can use.

I am quite surprised though that an API server is just open . I would have expected the upstream project to have some configuration options for auth .

[malvim]

@girish yep, separate things indeed. That said, it'll be pretty useful for me, that's why I packaged it.

About being open, yeah, I don't like that as well, but I'll try to make it work either with basic auth as they suggest (insecure, but better than nothing), or with cloudron's own ProxyAuth, not sure if it would work.