Notify_boxcar

Boxcar Notifications

• Source: https://boxcar.io/
• Icon Support: No
• Message Format: Text
• Message Limit: 10000 Characters per Message

Syntax

Valid authentication syntaxes are as follows:

• boxcar:://{hostname}
• boxcar:://{hostname}:{port}
• boxcar:://{user}:{hostname}
• boxcar:://{user}@{password}:{hostname}

Tags support:

• boxcar:://{hostname}/@{tag_id}
• boxcar:://{hostname}/@{tag_id01}/@{tag_id02}/@{tag_idNN} Device Tokens:
• boxcar:://{hostname}/{device_id}
• boxcar:://{hostname}/{device_id01}/{device_id02}/{device_idNN}

Alias support:

• boxcar:://{hostname}/{alias}
• boxcar:://{hostname}/{alias01}/{alias02}/{aliasNN}

You can also form any combination of the above and perform updates from one url:

• boxcar:://{accesstoken}/{tag_id}/{device_id}/@{alias_id}

Secure connections can be made by using boxcars://.

Parameter Breakdown

Variable	Required	Description
hostname	Yes	The server Boxcar is listening on.
port	No	The port Boxcar is listening on. By default the port is 80 for boxcar:// and 443 for all boxcars:// references.
user	No	If your boxcar server is protected by a user/pass combo, you will be required to provide it.
password	No	If your boxcar server is protected by a user/pass combo, you will be required to provide it.
device_id	No	Associated devices with your Boxcar setup. All device_ids are 64 characters in length.
tag_id	No	Tags must be prefixed with a @ symbol or they will be interpreted as a device_id and/or alias.
alias	No	Associated aliases with your Boxcar setup. All alias_ids are 1 to 63 characters in length.

Example

Send a secure Boxcar notification to an alias and a tag:

# Assume:
#  - our {hostname} is localhost
#  - our host is secured (we use boxcars://)
#  - our {alias} is myphone
#  - our {tag} is @friends

python notify.py boxcars://localhost/myphone/@friends