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Command line scripts for working with the HipChat REST API
Some command line scripts for performing HipChat API calls. For details on how to obtain a token and room id, see the tutorial.
Used to send a message to a room.
$ cat message.txt | ./hipchat_room_message -t <token> -r <room> -f "System"
hipchat-cli can be configured with one of the following options in a combination of those.
Command-line options are passed into hipchat-cli. A list of options is available by executing hipchat_room_message -h.
$ ./hipchat_room_message -h
Usage: ./hipchat_room_message -t <token> -r <room id> -f <from name>
This script will read from stdin and send the contents to the given room as
a system message. Or use -i message.
OPTIONS:
-h Show this message
-t <token> API token
-r <room id> Room ID
-f <from name> From name (optional in v2 API)
-c <color> Message color (yellow, red, green, purple, gray
or random - default: yellow)
-m <format> Message format (html or text - default: html)
-i <input> Optional: Input to send to room (default: stdin)
-l <level> Nagios message level (critical, warning, unknown,
ok, down, up). Will override color.
-n Trigger notification for people in the room
-o API host (api.hipchat.com)
-v <version> API version (default: v1)
-k Allow curl to make insecure SSL connections
$ ./hipchat_room_message -vv2 -t <TOKEN> -r <ROOM> -i "This is a message"
All options available as command-line options can be passed in as environment variables.
| Environment variable | Description |
|---|---|
| HIPCHAT_TOKEN | API token |
| HIPCHAT_ROOM_ID | Room ID |
| HIPCHAT_FROM | From name |
| HIPCHAT_COLOR | Message color (yellow, red, green, purple, gray or random - default: yellow) |
| HIPCHAT_FORMAT | Message format (html or text - default: html) |
| HIPCHAT_NOTIFY | Trigger notification for people in the room (default: 0) |
| HIPCHAT_HOST | API host (default: api.hipchat.com) |
| HIPCHAT_LEVEL | Message Level (targetting Nagios states, critical, warning, unknown, ok) |
| HIPCHAT_API | API version (default: v1) |
$ cat message.txt | HIPCHAT_TOKEN=<token> HIPCHAT_ROOM_ID=1234 ./hipchat_room_message -f "System"
All environment variables can be specified in a configuration file. The configuration file is /etc/hipchat.
Configuration in /etc/hipchat:
HIPCHAT_TOKEN=<token> HIPCHAT_ROOM_ID=1234
Command-line:
$ cat message.txt | HIPCHAT_FROM="System" ./hipchat_room_message -c green