Alert on story update error

apiserver/utils.py

@@ -8,6 +8,14 @@ import string
 
 from bleach.sanitizer import Cleaner
 
+def alert_tanner(message):
+    try:
+        logger.info('Alerting Tanner: ' + message)
+        params = dict(qotnews=message)
+        requests.get('https://tbot.tannercollin.com/message', params=params, timeout=4)
+    except BaseException as e:
+        logger.error('Problem alerting Tanner: ' + str(e))
+
 def gen_rand_id():
     return ''.join(random.choice(string.ascii_uppercase) for _ in range(4))