Flask webhook for Gitlab

A very simple post-receive web hook handler.

It will optionally verify that the POST request originated from a particular IP address.

Getting started

Installation Requirements

Install dependencies found in requirements.txt.

pip install -r requirements.txt

Repository Configuration

Create a JSON config file (e.g., repos.json) to configure repositories. Each repository must be keyed by its Gitlab homepage.

{
    "https://gitlab.com/pal/spm-batching": {
    	"private_token": "xxxxxxxxxxxxx",
        "push": {
            "master": {
                "path": "/home/spm-batching/deploy",
                "actions": [
                  "git checkout master",
                  "git pull"
                ]
            },
            "other": {
            	"actions": [
            		"echo A non-master branch was pushed."
            	]
            }
        }
        },
        "issue": {
            "user_notify": [
                "\\*\\*Sender\\*\\*\\: ([a-zA-Z0-9_.+-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9-]+\\.[a-zA-Z0-9-.]+)",
                "@gitlabuser"
            ]
        }
    }
}

This example handles two types of webhooks.

After a push event to the repo master branch, it executes a couple of command in the local shell to pull in the master HEAD. The special branch key other will run if the pushed branch is not otherwise matched to a key in the push hash.
After a new issue event, the handler runs a regex match on the issue body and adds an issue comment to @mention the user by email.

The issue hook uses a Gitlab private token to run API commands to lookup a username by email and add an issue comment. The push hook does not require the private token because it does not use the Gitlab API.

Run

python gwh.py --help

Example usage:

Assume a self-hosted Gitlab server on 192.168.1.44 and a production webserver on 192.168.1.99. The idea is that a push to the master branch for your project should trigger the production machine to pull in a new copy of the repo.

On your webhost (192.168.1.99), bring up the webhook handler:

python gwh.py -c repos.json -p 8080 --allow 192.168.1.44 &

Then in your Gitlab server (on 192.168.1.44) project settings, create a new webhook with URL http://192.168.1.99:8080 that's triggered on push events.

Test

curl -i -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" --data "@test.json" localhost:808