apprise

What it is and what it does

Apprise is a notification library that abstracts away the differences between dozens of notification services—Telegram, Discord, Slack, email, SMS, IRC, and many others—behind a single Python API and command-line interface. Instead of writing separate code for each service, you define notification targets using a common URL-like syntax and call one method to send to all of them. The library handles authentication, message formatting, and delivery asynchronously.

It's designed for two audiences: developers who want to add multi-service notifications to applications without learning each service's API, and system administrators or DevOps engineers who need a CLI tool to send alerts from scripts or monitoring systems. The package is lightweight, has low install friction, and supports modern Python versions (3.9+).

Use it for:

• Send alerts from monitoring or CI/CD systems to multiple channels (Slack, Discord, email) with one call
• Build a multi-platform notification feature into an application without hardcoding each service's API
• Notify on-call teams via their preferred channels (Telegram, PagerDuty, Gotify) from a single script
• Aggregate notifications from different sources into a unified CLI tool for system administrators
• Test notification delivery across multiple services during development or staging

Worth the install?

AI-flagged interpretation of the facts on this page — verify before relying

Apprise sends notifications to dozens of popular services (Telegram, Discord, Slack, Amazon SNS, Gotify, and many others) through a single unified library with a common syntax.

Yes. Apprise is actively maintained, has no known vulnerabilities, low install friction, and solves a real problem—coordinating notifications across many services. The permissive BSD-2-Clause license poses no barrier. Install it if you need to send notifications to multiple platforms or want to avoid vendor lock-in to a single service.

Install

apprise on PyPI

pip install apprise

uv add apprise

poetry add apprise

Installing apprise

Before you install

Low install friction with seven common runtime dependencies (requests, click, PyYAML, certifi, tzdata, and OAuth support). Active maintenance with recent releases; last commit 2026-08-12 and 17045 GitHub stars indicate sustained development.

License in practice

BSD-2-Clause is permissive, allowing commercial and private use with minimal restrictions—suitable for most projects.

Quickstart

pip install apprise

from apprise import Apprise

a = Apprise()
a.add('discord://webhook_id/webhook_token')
a.notify(title='Title', body='Message')

Verify before relying

• Whether all listed notification services in the description are fully functional or if some are experimental/deprecated
• Performance characteristics when sending to many services simultaneously despite async claims
• Whether image and attachment support is uniform across all services or varies by provider

Package facts

Evidence: apprise-1.12.0-py3-none-any.whl

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