python-gcm
Python client for Google Cloud Messaging for Android (GCM)
Installation
pip install python-gcmFeatures
- 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
from gcm import GCM
gcm = GCM(API_KEY)
data = {'param1': 'value1', 'param2': 'value2'}
# Downstream message using JSON request
reg_ids = ['token1', 'token2', 'token3']
response = gcm.json_request(registration_ids=reg_ids, data=data)
# Downstream message using JSON request with extra arguments
res = gcm.json_request(
registration_ids=reg_ids, data=data,
collapse_key='uptoyou', delay_while_idle=True, time_to_live=3600
)
# Topic Messaging
topic = '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