This application will make sure you can automatily reopen Service Desk issues on Gitlab.

• python
• pip
• requirements.txt

Please make sure you test the webhook on https://webhook.site to see what value BOT_USERNAME should have in your case:

{
  "object_kind": "note",
  "event_type": "confidential_note",
  "user": {
    "id": 1337,
    "name": "GitLab Support Bot",
    "username": "support-bot",
    "avatar_url": "[REDACTED]",
    "email": "[REDACTED]"
  },
}

Create a .env file with the following contents:

SECRET_KEY="somesecretkeyfromdjango"
BOT_USERNAME="support-bot"
GITLAB_ACCESS_TOKEN="your-specialaccestokengitlab"
GITLAB_API_URL="https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/support/bot"

• Note: remember if you are using this url to make sure you will use instead of a / the character /.

• Note: if you want to set the x-gitlab-token to make sure unauthorized people can not use this webhook you can use the env variable: GITLAB_X_TOKEN

pip install -r requirements.txt

You can deploy this project directly to Heroku with:

heroku create -a automaticly-reopen --region eu
git push heroku master
heroku config:set DISABLE_COLLECTSTATIC=1

Or run it locally with:

./manage.py runserver

And if you run it locally you can use a service like ngrok / localtunnel to test the webhooks.