bash-hipchat

Send hipchat notifications from the command line

Requirements

• curl on the commandline
• getopts support in your shell

Tested against

• bash version 3.2

Installation

Create a directory to hold your personal shell scripts:

cd ~
mkdir -p scripts

Then clone this repo there

cd ~/scripts
git clone https://github.com/josegonzalez/bash-hipchat.git

Then add this directory to your PATH within your .bashrc or .bash_profile:

export PATH=${PATH}:${HOME}/scripts/hipchat

Usage

Run the following command:

hipchat -h

To get usage instructions:

hipchat

usage:

  -h                - This help screen
  -a AUTH_TOKEN     - Authentication token (no default)
  -c COLOR          - Color of notification (default: yellow)
  -f FROM           - Who to send from (default: Nobody)
  -m MESSAGE_FORMAT - Message format (default: html)
  -n NOTIFY         - Whether to notify channel users (default: 0)
  -r ROOM_ID        - Room id (default: 31226)

TODO

• Some sort of unit testing
• Fallback for installations without curl - wget?
• Proper exit code based on curl response

License

MIT License