spring

Sends remote push notifications to registered devices. Build for local debug and development. Currently only iOS push notifications supported.

Installation

1. get Python (most Unix-like OS' come with python pre-installed)

2. pyapns (Apple push notification handler)

   $ pip install pyapns

3. twisted (required by pyapns)

   $ pip install twisted

4. pyOpenSSL (required by pyapns)

   $ pip install pyOpenSSL

5. [] (strongly recommended by pyOpenSSL)

   $ pip install service_identity

6. if you need to convert your export of the push certificate and private key to a .pem file use

   $ openssl pkcs12 -in certs.p12 -out certs.pem -nodes

7. copy the config.json.example file to config.json and adjust to your settings

8. start twistd service; example:

   $ twistd -r default web --class=pyapns.server.APNSServer --port=7077

9. run the script; example:

   $ ./spring.py -a 'hello spring!' -b 42 -s default -i 'sandbox:my_awesome_app'