Monitor your site and update a GitHub status page

import base64, json
from datetime import datetime, timezone
from clickruntime import on_trigger, credentials, http, notify, state

def gh(method, path, **kw):
    resp = http.request(method, f"https://api.github.com{path}", headers={
        "Authorization": f"Bearer {credentials.connection('github', 'work')}", "Accept": "application/vnd.github+json"}, **kw)
    return resp.raise_for_status() or (resp.json() if resp.content else None)

URL, REPO, PATH = "https://app.acme.example", "acme/status", "status.json"

@on_trigger
def run(event):
    try:
        up = http.get(URL, timeout=10).status_code < 500
    except Exception:
        up = False
    if state.get("up") == up:
        return {"up": up, "changed": False}
    now = datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat(timespec="minutes")
    current = gh("GET", f"/repos/{REPO}/contents/{PATH}")
    body = json.dumps({"status": "operational" if up else "outage", "updated": now}, indent=2)
    gh("PUT", f"/repos/{REPO}/contents/{PATH}", json={"message": f"Status: {'operational' if up else 'outage'}",
       "content": base64.b64encode(body.encode()).decode(), "sha": current["sha"]})
    notify.email_me(f"{URL} is {'back up' if up else 'DOWN'}", f"Status page updated at {now}.")
    state.set("up", up)
    return {"up": up, "changed": True}