python-gcm

Python client for Google Cloud Messaging for Android (GCM)

Installation

pip install python-gcm

Features

• Supports multicast message
• Resend messages using exponential back-off
• Proxy support
• Easily handle errors
• Uses requests from version > 0.2
• Topic Messaging
• TCP connection pooling and Keep-Alive when passing an explict requests.Session object to the used GCM request call

Usage

Read about Google Cloud Messaging

fromgcmimportGCMgcm=GCM(API_KEY)
data= {'param1': 'value1', 'param2': 'value2'}
# Downstream message using JSON requestreg_ids= ['token1', 'token2', 'token3']
response=gcm.json_request(registration_ids=reg_ids, data=data)
# Downstream message using JSON request with extra argumentsres=gcm.json_request(
registration_ids=reg_ids, data=data,
collapse_key='uptoyou', delay_while_idle=True, time_to_live=3600
)
# Topic Messagingtopic='topic name'gcm.send_topic_message(topic=topic, data=data)

See examples directory for more usage details, including error handling.

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md

Licensing

See LICENSE