Last Updated or created 2025-05-16

Below is my python script to push messages via pushover to my phone.

It’s being run from a cron during the day.

CODE

import csv
import datetime
import requests

# configure own creds
PUSHOVER_USER_KEY = 'keykeykeykeykeykeykeykey'
PUSHOVER_API_TOKEN = 'tokentokentokentokentokentokentoken'
CSV_FILE = '/data/notifications.csv'

def send_pushover_notification(message):
    url = "https://api.pushover.net/1/messages.json"
    payload = {
        "token": PUSHOVER_API_TOKEN,
        "user": PUSHOVER_USER_KEY,
        "message": message
    }
    response = requests.post(url, data=payload)
    if response.status_code != 200:
        print("Failed to send notification:", response.text)

def check_and_notify():
    today = datetime.date.today()
    with open(CSV_FILE, newline='') as csvfile:
        reader = csv.DictReader(csvfile)
        for row in reader:
            try:
                day = int(row['day'])
                month = int(row['month'])
                if today.day == day and today.month == month:
                    send_pushover_notification(row['message'])
            except ValueError:
                continue

if __name__ == "__main__":
    check_and_notify()

notifications.csv file

day,month,message
1,1,Birthday of a new year
16,05,Project Deadline
16,05,Test2 (blah) 2
7,3,Glorious bastard Rik Mayall birthday
27,3,International whisky day

Nice to haves (didn’t implement because i’m a lazy bastard)

• 3rd Saturday every may
• Getting dates or updates from another app
• Selecting Pushover device, level of alertness .. etc