Simple pushover.net notifier

beep.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

import httplib, urllib
import argparse

def main():
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
        description='send pushover.net notification')
    parser.add_argument('note', metavar='note', default=['(no note)'], nargs='*')
    args = parser.parse_args()

    note = ' '.join(args.note)
    #print 'repr(args.note): ',repr(args.note)
    print 'Sending: %s'%note
    conn = httplib.HTTPSConnection("api.pushover.net:443")

    conn.request("POST", "/1/messages",
                 urllib.urlencode({
        "token": "<APP TOKEN>",
        "user": "<USER KEY>",
        "message": note,
        }), { "Content-type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" })

if __name__=='__main__':
    main()