Webhook-Listener 0.0.1

Very basic webserver module to listen for webhooks and forward requests to predefined functions.

Webhook Listener

Very basic webserver module to listen for webhooks and forward requests to predefined functions.

Author: Todd Roberts

https://pypi.org/project/webhook_listener/

https://github.com/toddrob99/Webhooks

Install

Install from PyPI using pip

pip install webhook_listener

Use

• Define a function to process requests
  • request parameter will be a cherrypy request object
  • *args parameter will be a tuple of URL path components
  • **kwargs parameter will be a dictionary of URL parameters
  • Get the body of a POST request from request.body.read passing the length of request.headers['Content-Length']: request.body.read(int(request.headers['Content-Length'])) if int(request.headers.get('Content-Length',0)) > 0 else ''
  • Note: The body will be a byte array, and not a string. You may need to decode it to a string. For example:

    import json
    body_raw = request.body.read(int(request.headers['Content-Length'])) if int(request.headers.get('Content-Length',0)) > 0 else '{}'
    body = json.loads(body_raw.decode('utf-8'))
    

• Include webhook-listener in your project
• Create an instance of the webhook_listener.Listener class
  • handlers = Dictionary of functions/callables for each supported HTTP method. (Example: {'POST':process_post_request, 'GET':process_get_request})
  • port = Port for the web server to listen on (default: 8090)
  • host = Host for the web server to listen on (default: '0.0.0.0')
  • threadPool = Number of worker threads for the web server (default: 10)
  • logScreen = Setting for cherrypy to log to screen (default: False)
  • autoReload = Setting for cherrypy to auto reload when python files are changed (default: False)
• Start the Listener
• Keep your application running so the Listener can run in a separate thread

Example

import time
import webhook_listener

def process_post_request(request, *args, **kwargs):
    print('Received request:\n' + 
                'Method: {}\n'.format(request.method) +
                'Headers: {}\n'.format(request.headers) + 
                'Args (url path): {}\n'.format(args) + 
                'Keyword Args (url parameters): {}\n'.format(kwargs) + 
                'Body: {}'.format(request.body.read(int(request.headers['Content-Length'])) if int(request.headers.get('Content-Length',0)) > 0 else '')
            )

    # Process the request!
    # ...

    return

webhooks = webhook_listener.Listener(handlers={'POST':process_post_request})
webhooks.start()

while True:
    print('Still alive...')
    time.sleep(300)