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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+#
+# Post error tickets to slack on a 5 minute schedule.
+#
+# Proper use depends on having created a web-hook through Slack, and having set
+# that value in your app's model as the value of global_settings.slack_hook.
+# Details on creating web-hooks can be found at https://slack.com/integrations
+#
+# requires the Requests module for posting to slack, other requirements are
+# standard or provided by web2py
+#
+# Usage (on Unices), replace myapp with the name of your application and run:
+#   nohup python web2py.py -S myapp -M -R scripts/tickets2slack.py &
+
+import sys
+import os
+import time
+import pickle
+import json
+
+try:
+    import requests
+except ImportError as e:
+    print "missing module 'Requests', aborting."
+    sys.exit(1)
+
+from gluon import URL
+from gluon.utils import md5_hash
+from gluon.restricted import RestrictedError
+from gluon.settings import global_settings
+
+
+path = os.path.join(request.folder, 'errors')
+sent_errors_file = os.path.join(path, 'slack_errors.pickle')
+hashes = {}
+if os.path.exists(sent_errors_file):
+    try:
+        with open(sent_errors_file, 'rb') as f:
+            hashes = pickle.load(f)
+    except Exception as _:
+        pass
+
+# ## CONFIGURE HERE
+SLEEP_MINUTES = 5
+ALLOW_DUPLICATES = False
+global_settings.slack_hook = global_settings.slack_hook or \
+    'https://hooks.slack.com/services/your_service'
+# ## END CONFIGURATION
+
+while 1:
+    for file_name in os.listdir(path):
+        if file_name == 'slack_errors.pickle':
+            continue
+
+        if not ALLOW_DUPLICATES:
+            key = md5_hash(file_name)
+            if key in hashes:
+                continue
+            hashes[key] = 1
+
+        error = RestrictedError()
+
+        try:
+            error.load(request, request.application, file_name)
+        except Exception as _:
+            continue  # not an exception file?
+
+        url = URL(a='admin', f='ticket', args=[request.application, file],
+                  scheme=True)
+        payload = json.dumps(dict(text="Error in %(app)s.\n%(url)s" %
+                                       dict(app=request.application, url=url)))
+
+        requests.post(global_settings.slack_hook, data=dict(payload=payload))
+
+    with open(sent_errors_file, 'wb') as f:
+        pickle.dump(hashes, f)
+    time.sleep(SLEEP_MINUTES * 60)