Script to alert feed owner to high number of listeners

radef · May 29, 2016

I've been running a feed for about a year. Most of the time, I'm under 20 listeners at a time. I had some event the other day where my listeners peaked at nearly 200. I wish I would have been notified at the time of the event so I could have added a feed alert or something...and potentially driven up the number of listeners further.

So I whipped up a python script to do just that. Here it is if anyone else wants to implement the same feature. This runs on a Raspberry Pi that supplies my feed.

This file is located at /home/pi/stats/stats.py

Code:

#!/usr/bin/python

import urllib2, json
import os

feedId = "put_your_radioreference_feedId_here"
username = "put_your_radioreference_username_here"
password = "put_your_radioreference_password_here"
email = "put_your_email_here"

alertThreshold = 30
alertSubject = "[elmpi] Broadcastify Alert"
alertBody = "Broadcastify listener threshold exceeded " + str(alertThreshold) + " listeners.  "
alertBody += "Listen to the feed here http://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/" + feedId + "  "
alertBody += "Manage the feed here http://www.broadcastify.com/manage/feed/" + feedId + "  "

url = "https://api.broadcastify.com/owner/?a=feed&feedId=" + feedId + "&type=json&u=" + username + "&p=" + password
response = urllib2.urlopen(url)
data = json.load(response)
listeners = data['Feed'][0]['listeners']
alertBody += "The current number of listeners is " + str(listeners) + "  "

if listeners > alertThreshold:
        cmd = 'echo ' + alertBody + ' | mail -s "' + alertSubject + '" ' + email
        os.system(cmd)

I then have then running every 5 minutes thanks to a cronjob:

Code:

crontab -e

then add the line

Code:

*/5 * * * * /home/pi/stats/stats.py

The "mail" command above requires ssmtp & mailutils to be installed (ssmtp to send emails – Raspberry Pi Projects) which I have configured to send via a gmail account.

QDP2012 · May 29, 2016

A link to this thread has been added to the Raspberry Pi Broadcastify Build RR Wiki page, so more people can learn about this.

Thanks for sharing.

W8RMH · May 29, 2016

If you have a smartphone you can use Scanner Radio App to alert you to certain listener numbers.

webstar22 · May 31, 2016

I used my network monitoring software to do the same thing. lets me keep a screen on a secondary monitor all the time to see whats going on plus alerts me at set levels.

Also I've been monitoring server disconnections from the past week or so on Audio3.

radef · Dec 12, 2016

Here's an update. I reordered the information and added some HTML to the emails. The goal was to have the current number of subscribers near the top of the email (so my email programs show the current number of listeners in the email preview).

Code:

#!/usr/bin/python

import urllib2, json
import os

feedId = "your_feed_number_here"
username = "your_username_here"
password = "your_password_here"
email = "email_address_here"

alertThreshold = 40
alertSubject = "[servername] Broadcastify Alert"
alertBody = "<p>Broadcastify listener threshold exceeded " + str(alertThreshold) + " listeners.</p>"
alertBody += "<p><a href='http://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/" + feedId + "'>Listen to the feed here</a></p>"
alertBody += "<p><a href='http://www.broadcastify.com/manage/feed/" + feedId + "'>Manage the feed here</a></p>"

url = "https://api.broadcastify.com/owner/?a=feed&feedId=" + feedId + "&type=json&u=" + username + "&p=" + password
response = urllib2.urlopen(url)
data = json.load(response)
listeners = data['Feed'][0]['listeners']
alertBody = "<h2>Current Listeners:  " + str(listeners) + "</h2>" + alertBody

if listeners > alertThreshold:
	cmd = 'echo ' + repr(alertBody) + ' | mail -a "Content-type: text/html;" -s "' + alertSubject + '" ' + email
	os.system(cmd)

Script to alert feed owner to high number of listeners

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