ActivitySmith Python SDK

Documentation

Installation

Install the ActivitySmith Python SDK with pip:

pip install activitysmith

Quickstart

1. Create an API key
2. Set ACTIVITYSMITH_API_KEY or pass it directly to ActivitySmith.

import os
from activitysmith import (
    ActivitySmith,
    action,
    alert_badge,
    alert_icon,
    content_state,
    metric,
)

activitysmith = ActivitySmith(api_key=os.environ["ACTIVITYSMITH_API_KEY"])

Push Notifications

Send a Push Notification

Send an immediate notification for a completed task or event.

activitysmith.notifications.send(
    title="New subscription 💸",
    message="Customer upgraded to Pro plan",
)

Custom Push Notification Icons

Set icon to a publicly accessible HTTPS image URL to show an avatar or service logo alongside a smaller ActivitySmith app icon. With a custom icon, iOS may omit the subtitle from the notification.

activitysmith.notifications.send(
    title="MRR just crossed $10,000 🎉",
    message="Up 18% this month from 31 new subscriptions.",
    icon="https://cdn.activitysmith.com/integrations/icons/stripe.png",
)

Rich Push Notifications with Media

activitysmith.notifications.send(
    title="Homepage ready",
    message="Your agent finished the redesign.",
    media="https://cdn.example.com/output/homepage-v2.png",
)

Attach images, videos, or audio to your Push Notifications. Press and hold the notification to preview the media.

What will work:

• direct image URL: .jpg, .png, .gif, etc.
• direct audio file URL: .mp3, .m4a, etc.
• direct video file URL: .mp4, .mov, etc.
• URL that responds with a proper media Content-Type, even if the path has no extension

media cannot be combined with actions.

Push Notifications with Redirection

Open a web page, run an iOS Shortcut, or open an app when someone taps the notification. redirection supports:

• HTTP/HTTPS: Web pages, e.g. https://example.com
• Shortcuts: Run Jarvis with shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Jarvis
• App deep links: Installed apps or specific content within them
  • Spotify: A track, e.g. spotify:track:6rqhFgbbKwnb9MLmUQDhG6
  • Termius: termius:// to open the app
  • Claude: claude://code to open the Code tab
  • ChatGPT: chatgpt:// to open the app

activitysmith.notifications.send(
    title="Homepage ready",
    message="Your agent finished the redesign.",
    redirection="https://github.com/acme/web/pull/482",
)

Actionable Push Notifications

open_url actions open a web page, run an iOS Shortcut, or open an app when someone taps the button. Supported links:

• HTTP/HTTPS: Web pages, e.g. https://example.com
• Shortcuts: Run Jarvis with shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Jarvis
• App deep links: Installed apps or specific content within them
  • Spotify: A track, e.g. spotify:track:6rqhFgbbKwnb9MLmUQDhG6
  • Termius: termius:// to open the app
  • Claude: claude://code to open the Code tab
  • ChatGPT: chatgpt:// to open the app

Webhooks are executed by the ActivitySmith backend and must use HTTPS.

activitysmith.notifications.send(
    title="New subscription 💸",
    message="Customer upgraded to Pro plan",
    actions=[
        action(
            title="Open CRM",
            type="open_url",
            url="https://crm.example.com/customers/cus_9f3a1d",
        ),
        action(
            title="Chat with Jarvis",
            type="open_url",
            url="shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Jarvis",
        ),
        action(
            title="Start Onboarding Workflow",
            type="webhook",
            url="https://hooks.example.com/activitysmith/onboarding/start",
            method="POST",
            body={
                "customer_id": "cus_9f3a1d",
                "plan": "pro",
            },
        ),
    ],
)

Push Notification Interruption Levels

Use interruption_level to choose how urgently iOS presents a Push Notification. Omit it for normal delivery. Explicit active has the same behavior as the default.

See Apple's interruption levels for the system behavior.

The SDK also exports these values as PushInterruptionLevel.PASSIVE, PushInterruptionLevel.ACTIVE, and PushInterruptionLevel.TIME_SENSITIVE.

Passive

activitysmith.notifications.send(
    title="Daily summary",
    message="All scheduled jobs completed successfully.",
    interruption_level="passive",
)

Active (default)

activitysmith.notifications.send(
    title="Deployment complete",
    message="Your latest changes are live.",
    interruption_level="active",
)

Removing the interruption level from this example produces the same delivery behavior.

Time Sensitive

activitysmith.notifications.send(
    title="🚨 checkout-api is down",
    message="500 errors on 62% of requests. Customers can't complete payments.",
    interruption_level="time-sensitive",
)

Live Activities

Choose the Live Activity type that matches what you want to show:

Value: Show a single value on your Lock Screen, such as revenue, a queue count, or a temperature.

Stats: Show up to 8 labeled values on your Lock Screen, from revenue and orders to uptime and conversion.

Alert: Show status updates with a clear message, badge, and icon. When you add an action button, color controls the button tint.

Metrics: Track two related values with segmented bars, such as CPU and memory.

Segmented Progress: Show progress through a known set of steps, like build, test, deploy, and verify.

Progress: Show percentage progress for jobs that move continuously toward completion.

Timer: Count down from a duration, or count up from 00:00 while a job runs.

Start & Update Live Activity

Use a stable stream_key to identify the metric, job, deployment, or system you want to keep visible. The first stream(...) call starts the Live Activity. Later calls with the same stream_key update it.

Value

activitysmith.live_activities.stream(
    "revenue-today",
    content_state=content_state(
        title="Revenue",
        type="value",
        value="$1,240",
        color="green",
        icon=alert_icon("dollarsign.circle", color="green"),
        badge=alert_badge("↑ 18%", color="purple"),
    ),
)

Send a string or number in value. Strings keep their formatting, including currency symbols, units, and decimal places.

Stats

activitysmith.live_activities.stream(
    "sales-hourly",
    content_state=content_state(
        title="Sales",
        subtitle="last hour",
        type="stats",
        metrics=[
            metric(label="Revenue", value="$2430", color="blue"),
            metric(label="Orders", value="37", color="green"),
            metric(label="Conversion", value="4.8%", color="magenta"),
            metric(label="Avg Order", value="$65.68", color="yellow"),
            metric(label="Refunds", value="$84", color="red"),
            metric(label="New Buyers", value="18", color="cyan"),
        ],
    ),
)

Alert

activitysmith.live_activities.stream(
    "customer-ops",
    content_state=content_state(
        title="Reactivation",
        message="Lumen came back after 2 weeks",
        type="alert",
        icon=alert_icon("cloud.sun", color="yellow"),
        badge=alert_badge("Customer", color="magenta"),
    ),
)

Metrics

activitysmith.live_activities.stream(
    "prod-web-1",
    content_state=content_state(
        title="Server Health",
        subtitle="prod-web-1",
        type="metrics",
        metrics=[
            metric(label="CPU", value=9, unit="%"),
            metric(label="MEM", value=45, unit="%"),
        ],
    ),
)

Segmented Progress

activitysmith.live_activities.stream(
    "nightly-backup",
    content_state=content_state(
        title="Nightly Backup",
        subtitle="upload archive",
        type="segmented_progress",
        number_of_steps=3,
        current_step=2,
    ),
)

Progress

activitysmith.live_activities.stream(
    "search-reindex",
    content_state=content_state(
        title="Search Reindex",
        subtitle="catalog-v2",
        type="progress",
        percentage=42,
    ),
)

Timer

activitysmith.live_activities.stream(
    "benchmark-run",
    content_state=content_state(
        title="Benchmark Run",
        subtitle="sampling",
        type="timer",
        duration_seconds=300,
        color="cyan",
    ),
)

For a countdown, send duration_seconds. You can update title, subtitle, color, or any other visible field as the work changes. Leave duration_seconds out unless you want to change the timer.

To start at 00:00 and count up, set counts_down=False and leave out duration_seconds.

End Live Activity

Call end_stream(...) with the same stream_key to dismiss the Live Activity. You can include final values before it is removed. Set auto_dismiss_seconds to dismiss it after a delay in seconds, or auto_dismiss_minutes for minutes. Use 0 for immediate dismissal. Seconds take precedence if both are set.

activitysmith.live_activities.end_stream(
    "prod-web-1",
    content_state=content_state(
        title="Server Health",
        subtitle="prod-web-1",
        type="metrics",
        metrics=[
            metric(label="CPU", value=7, unit="%"),
            metric(label="MEM", value=38, unit="%"),
        ],
        auto_dismiss_seconds=30,
    ),
)

Icons and Badges

Add more context to Live Activities with icons and badges.

Icon

Supported Live Activity types: value, stats, alert, metrics, segmented_progress, progress, and timer.

activitysmith.live_activities.stream(
    "prod-web-1",
    content_state=content_state(
        title="Server Health",
        subtitle="prod-web-1",
        type=activitysmith.live_activities.TYPE_METRICS,
        icon=alert_icon("server.rack", color="blue"),
        metrics=[
            metric(label="CPU", value=18, unit="%"),
            metric(label="MEM", value=42, unit="%"),
        ],
    ),
)

The icon.symbol value is an Apple SF Symbol name. Browse the catalog with one of these tools:

• ActivitySmith app - Open Settings -> SF Symbols to browse 45 hand-picked icons ready to use
• SF Symbols - Apple's official macOS app
• Interactful - free third-party iOS app listing all SF Symbols under Foundations -> Iconography

Badge

Badges are supported by value, alert, segmented_progress, and progress Live Activities.

activitysmith.live_activities.stream(
    "nightly-database-backup",
    content_state=content_state(
        title="Nightly Database Backup",
        subtitle="verify restore",
        type=activitysmith.live_activities.TYPE_PROGRESS,
        badge=alert_badge("S3", color="cyan"),
        percentage=62,
    ),
)

Live Activity Colors

Choose from these colors for the Live Activity accent, including progress bars and action buttons, or apply them to an individual icon or badge:

lime, green, cyan, blue, purple, magenta, red, orange, yellow, gray

Live Activity Action

Live Activities can include an action button.

• open_url: Open a web page or run an iOS Shortcut
• webhook: Trigger a backend GET/POST workflow

Open URL action

Open a web page or run an iOS Shortcut when someone taps the button. Supported links:

• HTTP/HTTPS: Web pages, e.g. https://example.com
• Shortcuts: Run Jarvis with shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Jarvis

activitysmith.live_activities.stream(
    "prod-web-1",
    content_state=content_state(
        title="Server Health",
        subtitle="prod-web-1",
        type="metrics",
        metrics=[
            metric(label="CPU", value=76, unit="%"),
            metric(label="MEM", value=52, unit="%"),
        ],
    ),
    action=action(
        title="Dashboard",
        type="open_url",
        url="https://status.example.com/servers/prod-web-1",
    ),
)

Apple Shortcut action

activitysmith.live_activities.stream(
    "prod-web-1",
    content_state=content_state(
        title="Server Health",
        subtitle="prod-web-1",
        type="metrics",
        metrics=[
            metric(label="CPU", value=76, unit="%"),
            metric(label="MEM", value=52, unit="%"),
        ],
    ),
    action=action(
        title="Chat with Jarvis",
        type="open_url",
        url="shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Jarvis",
    ),
)

Webhook action

activitysmith.live_activities.stream(
    "search-reindex",
    content_state=content_state(
        title="Reindexing product search",
        subtitle="Shard 7 of 12",
        type="segmented_progress",
        number_of_steps=12,
        current_step=7,
    ),
    action=action(
        title="Pause Reindex",
        type="webhook",
        url="https://ops.example.com/hooks/search/reindex/pause",
        method="POST",
        body={
            "job_id": "reindex-2026-03-19",
            "requested_by": "activitysmith-python",
        },
    ),
)

Secondary action

Use secondary_action when you want a second button beside the primary action.

The secondary action button is supported for value, alert, segmented_progress, and progress Live Activities. Both buttons use the same open_url, webhook, and Apple Shortcut payload shapes.

activitysmith.live_activities.stream(
    "agent-approval",
    content_state=content_state(
        title="Approval Needed",
        message="Should I send the follow-up email to Brightlane?",
        type="alert",
        color="green",
        icon=alert_icon("sparkles", color="green"),
        badge=alert_badge("Agent", color="green"),
    ),
    action=action(
        title="Send",
        type="webhook",
        url="https://agent.example.com/live-activity/approve",
        method="POST",
        body={
            "approval_id": "approval_01JY3J7Q9S0P8M1V5PZK7DR4M2",
            "decision": "send",
        },
    ),
    secondary_action=action(
        title="Deny",
        type="webhook",
        url="https://agent.example.com/live-activity/deny",
        method="POST",
        body={
            "approval_id": "approval_01JY3J7Q9S0P8M1V5PZK7DR4M2",
            "decision": "deny",
        },
    ),
)

Lock Screen Widgets

ActivitySmith lets you display any value on your Lock Screen with widgets - SaaS metrics, revenue, signups, uptime, habits, or anything else you want to track. Create a metric in the web app, then update the metric value using our API, add a widget to your lock screen and it will fetch the latest update automatically.

Use the metric key to update its value.

activitysmith.metrics.update("deploy.success_rate", 99.9)

String metric values work too.

activitysmith.metrics.update("prod.status", "healthy")

App Icon Badge Count

Show the number you care about on your ActivitySmith app icon. Track MRR, a customer count, a stock price, or any other value you want to keep in view.

Set or update the badge value

activitysmith.badge_count(8333)

Clear the badge

Pass 0 to clear the badge.

activitysmith.badge_count(0)

Metadata

Metadata adds extra information to Push Notification and Live Activity details in ActivitySmith. It does not appear in the notification or Live Activity on your device.

activitysmith.notifications.send(
    title="New subscription 💸",
    message="Customer upgraded to Pro plan",
    metadata={
        "customer_id": "382",
        "plan": "Pro",
        "amount": 29,
        "trial": False,
    },
)

activitysmith.live_activities.stream(
    "customer-import",
    title="Customer Import",
    type="progress",
    percentage=60,
    metadata={
        "job_id": "import-382",
        "records": 1200,
    },
)

Values can be strings, numbers, or booleans. Metadata supports up to 50 entries and 16 KB of JSON, with keys up to 100 characters and strings up to 4,000 characters. Nested objects, arrays, and null values are not supported.

Tags

Use Tags to organize and filter Push Notification and Live Activity history. Tags are created automatically when you first use them. Sending Tags requires SDK version 1.10.0 or later.

activitysmith.notifications.send(
    title="New subscription 💸",
    message="Customer upgraded to Pro plan",
    tags=["user:382", "billing"],
)

On Live Activity stream updates and legacy update or end calls, omit tags to keep existing Tags, supply a list to replace them, or pass tags=[] to clear them.

activitysmith.live_activities.update(
    activity_id="YOUR_ACTIVITY_ID",
    title="Customer Import",
    percentage=60,
    tags=[],
)

Channels

Use channels to target specific team members or devices when sending Push Notifications, Live Activities, or App Icon Badge Count updates. Omit it for account-wide delivery.

activitysmith.notifications.send(
    title="New subscription 💸",
    message="Customer upgraded to Pro plan",
    channels=["sales", "customer-success"],
)

activitysmith.live_activities.stream(
    "nightly-backup",
    content_state=content_state(
        title="Nightly database backup",
        type="segmented_progress",
        number_of_steps=3,
        current_step=1,
    ),
    channels=["ios-builds"],
)

activitysmith.badge_count(3, channels=["sales", "customer-success"])

Error Handling

Wrap API calls with try/except. The SDK raises exceptions for non-2xx responses. Rate limit errors use the error and message fields, and Live Activity limit errors include limit and active. See Rate Limits for details.

Additional Resources

PyPI Package

Install the ActivitySmith Python SDK from PyPI

Source Code

View the Python SDK source on GitHub