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community.general.hipchat – Send a message to Hipchat.

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 3.8.1).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.hipchat.

Synopsis

  • Send a message to a Hipchat room, with options to control the formatting.

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
api
string
Default:
"https://api.hipchat.com/v1"
API url if using a self-hosted hipchat server. For Hipchat API version 2 use the default URI with /v2 instead of /v1.
color
string
    Choices:
  • yellow ←
  • red
  • green
  • purple
  • gray
  • random
Background color for the message.
msg
string / required
The message body.
msg_format
string
    Choices:
  • text ←
  • html
Message format.
msg_from
string
Default:
"Ansible"
Name the message will appear to be sent from. Max length is 15 characters - above this it will be truncated.

aliases: from
notify
boolean
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes ←
If true, a notification will be triggered for users in the room.
room
string / required
ID or name of the room.
token
string / required
API token.
validate_certs
boolean
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes ←
If no, SSL certificates will not be validated. This should only be used on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates.

Examples

- name: Send a message to a Hipchat room
  community.general.hipchat:
    room: notif
    msg: Ansible task finished

- name: Send a message to a Hipchat room using Hipchat API version 2
  community.general.hipchat:
    api: https://api.hipchat.com/v2/
    token: OAUTH2_TOKEN
    room: notify
    msg: Ansible task finished

Authors

  • Shirou Wakayama (@shirou)
  • Paul Bourdel (@pb8226)

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2021 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/hipchat_module.html