A flask web server to start/stop weechat for a Glowing Bear connection. Intended for people who have push notifications set up in their bouncer that only come through when no clients are connected

start_weechat.py

from flask import *
from subprocess import check_output, CalledProcessError

app = Flask(__name__)

@app.route('/')
def index():
    if request.args.get("pw", None) and request.args["pw"] == "somepassword":
        if "start" in request.args:
            try:
                _ = check_output(["pidof", "weechat"])
            except CalledProcessError:
                pass
            else:
                _ = check_output(["killall", "weechat"])
            _ = check_output(["screen", "-dmS", "irc", "weechat"])
            return redirect("https://glowing-bear.github.io/glowing-bear", code=302)
        elif "stop" in request.args:
            try:
                _ = check_output(["killall", "weechat"])
                return "Done.\n"
            except CalledProcessError:
                return "Nothing to stop.\n"
    else:
        return "Go away.\n"

if __name__ == "__main__":
    app.run(port=56788, debug=True)