Batsign

The world's simplest personal Email notification API.

No credit card required

Examples

Command line

Task completion


dd if=linux-amd64.iso of=/dev/sdd bs=1M  ; curl https://batsign.me/at/your@e.mail/12345


python epic_modelling_job.py ; curl https://batsign.me/at/your@e.mail/12345

Cron

Notify on service failure


# m h  dom mon dow   command
  0 *  *   *   *     systemctl is-active --quiet apache2 || curl --data "panic.." https://batsign.me/at/your@e.mail/12345

Notify on server reboot


# m h  dom mon dow   command
@reboot curl --data "$(hostname) was rebooted at: `date +%m.%d.%Y.%H.%M`" https://batsign.me/at/your@e.mail/12345

Bash script

Send report from sqlite


#!/bin/bash
curl --data "$(
    sqlite3 db.sqlite3 -list -header  "
        select count(*) 'Total Records'
        from users
    " | column -t -s'|')
" https://batsign.me/at/your@e.mail/12345

Python3 ( and Jupyter notebook )


import urllib
urllib.request.urlopen("https://batsign.me/at/your@e.mail/12345")


import requests
requests.post("https://batsign.me/at/your@e.mail/12345", "story boss")

Jenkins

Notify on new code deployed


stage('build') {
    steps {
        sh 'make'
    }
}
stage('alert') {
    steps {
        sh 'curl --data "new version deployed." https://batsign.me/at/your@e.mail/12345'
    }
}

Notify on build pipeline failure


try {
    sh 'mvn test'
} catch (e) {
    currentBuild.result = 'FAILURE'
    throw e
} finally {
    sh 'curl --data "Tests failed!." https://batsign.me/at/your@e.mail/12345'
}

Privacy Statement

We do not run ads. We do not share or sell your data.

Email us and we will promptly delete your data upon request.

Fair Use Policy

Our service operates under a fair use policy which assumes a few emails per day per user. Please contact us for more details or if you have specific requirements.

Questions and Answers

How can I contact you?

Email contact@Batsign.me

I can see it says “No credit card required” - does that mean it’s a free service, or you will charge me I upgrade, if so what is that price?

Batsign personal is a free service, with no plans to charge for it specifically.

What pain point does Batsign.me alleviate?

Setting up an email server can be complicated and painful. Installing an email client is an extra system dependency that also needs to be configured. Batsign was built to make it very easy to set up email notifications.

Limitations?

You can only send yourself an email. Emails can only be plain text. You cannot change the subject line. Email body can only be a certain length.

What is logged in the servers? And for how long?

Every notification sent via Batsign is logged indefinitely, or until you request data be removed.

How is it different from just using sendmail?

Enabling personal email notifications is a one-step process with Batsign. Sendmail setup requires a number of steps. If you already have access to a sendmail server, then there is probably not much difference, although you will have to configure an email client.

Why does "/your@e.mail/" need to be in the POST request, would a random UUID be better to prevent forged Batsigns?

The email in the URL makes it easy to know what address your message will go to. We are open to changing this. There is a random pin number added to each URL to make forgeries unlikely.

As a feature can you include logs section (sometime emails are not delivered or to get past emails which are from inbox) and other details like whether email is sent or not?

You can now view all logs of all messages sent via Batsign.

How are you going to keep the lights on?

Batsign is paid for by xiliary systems limited.