Improve README.md, mention WMN_CONFIG_PATH

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Ben 2023-10-27 14:42:41 +02:00
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Takes notifications via webhook, checks a secret and notifies a [Matrix](https://matrix.org) room.
Listens to HTTP only. Should be used behind a reverse-proxy with HTTPS.
An example configuration is at `config.yml.example` and the program always reads the configuration file `config.yml`.
## Configuration
An example configuration is located at `config.yml.example`.
By default the file `config.yml` in the current working directory will be used as the configuration.
To specify a different configuration file, use the environment variable `WMN_CONFIG_PATH`.
## Running the command line notifier
To notify a room with a simple text message, ensure credentials are filled out in your local config.yml and run
To notify a room with a simple text message, ensure credentials are filled out in your configuration file and run
```
python -m wmn.notify -r '!room:matrix.org' simple text message
python -m wmn.notify -r '!room:matrix.org' "text" "html"
```
Installing the webhook-matrix-notifier will create the shorthand script "matrix-notify" for this.
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curl -i -X POST "http://localhost:5000/matrix?room=${URLQUOTED_ROOM}" -H "X-Gitlab-Event: Push Hook" -H "X-Gitlab-Token: 123" -H "Content-Type: application/json" --data-binary @./testrequest_gitlab.json
```
The `X-Gitlab-Token` must correspond to the secret provided in `config.yml`
The `X-Gitlab-Token` must correspond to the secret provided in the configuration.
### Prometheus
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curl -i -X POST "http://localhost:5000/matrix?type=prometheus&secret=${URLQUOTED_SECRET}&room=${URLQUOTED_ROOM}" -H "Content-Type: application/json" --data-binary @./testrequest_prometheus.json
```
The secret must be passed as a URI parameter here.
The secret must be passed as a URI parameter.