Posting to Teams

I can’t believe its been 4½ years since my Posting to Slack blog post (which I’ve had to update a few links on) so it’s probably time for a similar post to Microsoft Teams. Unsurprisingly, as Teams in Microsoft’s blatant rip-off of Slack, the process very similar. First create the webhook with these instructions and

Posting to Slack

The Python httplib and related modules work but make life harder than it needs to be. Thankfully, the requests module acts as a wrapper and makes issuing HTTP requests as simple as you would expect. Installation of the module is with pip as you would expect and there is a decent introductory guide on the site.

Proxies

Accessing information via a URL is easily done using urllib but it is not always able to automatically detect proxy settings. Manually setting a proxy is not that difficult, it even handles authentication. The proxy passed is a dictionary where the key is the protocol and value is the proxy. Different protocols can have different