gitlab-webhook-xmpp

gitlab-webhook-xmpp is GitLab web hook handler for XMPP multi-user chat notifications about repository push events written in Python using Twisted framework.

Installation

gitlab-webhook-xmpp runs on Python 2.7. Clone the repo in the directory of your choice using git:

git clone https://github.com/3cky/gitlab-webhook-xmpp

Next, install all needed Python requirements using pip package manager:

cd gitlab-webhook-xmpp sudo pip install -r ./requirements.txt

Then install gitlab-webhook-xmpp itself:

sudo python setup.py install

Configuration

Before run gitlab-webhook-xmpp, you will have to create a configuration file. You could use provided doc/gitlab-webhook-xmpp.cfg.example as example. Change HTTP port and XMPP account JID/password according to your preferences. Push repository URLs are mapped to multi-user chat JIDs in [notifications] section using comma-delimited Unix filename patterns. Multiple matches are allowed.

Run

Run gitlab-webhook-xmpp by command twistd -n gitlab-webhook-xmpp -c /path/to/config/file.cfg

Set up GitLab web hook

Open GitLab project settings -> Web Hooks, add URL of server running gitlab-webhook-xmpp and check "Push events" as trigger. Press "Add Web Hook" button. You could test added web hook by "Test Hook" button.

Customising notification message

gitlab-webhook-xmpp uses Jinja2 template engine to compose notifications. You could override internal template by your own file using template variable in [message] section of configuration file. After restart all consequent changes in template file will be reloaded automatically.

Troubleshooting

I got error ImportError: No module named pkg_resources under CentOS 6 while trying to run gitlab-webhook-xmpp

• Upgrade setuptools using curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/ez_setup.py | python command (as root)