POST a JSON payload to a Team's channel Incoming Webhook using Python requests

teams_webhook_post.py

'''
This is an example of how to send data to Team's webhooks in Python with the
requests module.
Documentation for Team's Incoming Webhooks:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/platform/webhooks-and-connectors/what-are-webhooks-and-connectors
Card playground:
https://messagecardplayground.azurewebsites.net/
'''

import json
import requests
import os

# Set the webhook_url to the one provided by creating a webhook connector.
webhook_url = 'https://outlook.office.com/webhook/*************************/IncomingWebhook/*************************'

Watchdog_data = os.environ['sitecheckdata']  #path to card's json file. use "set sitecheckdata '%userprofile%/desktop/path/to/file'"

response = requests.post(
    webhook_url, data=json.dumps(Watchdog_data),
    headers={'Content-Type': 'application/json'}
)
if response.status_code != 200:
    raise ValueError(
        'Request to Teams returned an error %s, the response is:\n%s'
        % (response.status_code, response.text)
    )