Overwatcher

A simple app for sending telegram notification on completion of a long-running command.

Setting up

Install package:

pip install overwatcher

Setup environment variables (at least two required):

export OVERWATCHER_TOKEN=...
export OVERWATCHER_CHAT=...

The former should contain token of a telegram bot which could be obtained from @BotFather, the latter can be requested from @chatid_echo_bot. Other env variables are not necessary:

export OVERWATCHER_BASE_FILE_PATH=... # base filepath from which to start searching mentioned files (default value is /home)
export OVERWATCHER_N_FILES=... # the number of last files from the log to push (default value is 3)
export OVERWATCHER_N_LINES=... # the number of lines from command output to forward (default value is 20)
export OVERWATCHER_MAX_LINE_LENGTH=... # max number of characters on a single line (default value is 100)

Usage

Example:

python -m overwatcher notify "ls -alh && sleep 10"

Response is sent to a telegram chat:

Command echo nice is completed in 0.003 seconds. Result:
nice