Minor change and version upgrades (#306)

- Updated requirements.txt versions
- Improve internal code used for making requests

.pre-commit-config.yaml

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ repos:
   - repo: https://github.com/pycqa/flake8
     rev: 7.1.1
     hooks:
-      -  id: flake8
+      - id: flake8
   - repo: https://github.com/PyCQA/isort
     rev: 5.13.2
     hooks:

lib/utils.py

@@ -60,7 +60,8 @@ def make_request(
     attempts = 0
     while attempts < max_attempts:
         attempts += 1
-        if method == "POST":
+
+        if method.upper() == "POST":
             response = requests.post(url, headers=headers, json=info)
         else:
             response = requests.get(url, headers=headers, params=info)
@@ -69,9 +70,9 @@ def make_request(
             logger.debug("Successfully made request after %d attempts", attempts)
             return response.json()
 
-        # Request did not succeed
+        # Handle unsuccessful responses
         response_body = response.content.decode()
-        error_msg = response.reason + " " + str(response.status_code)
+        error_msg = f"{response.reason} ({response.status_code})"
         error = RequestError(error_msg, response_body)
 
         try:

requirements.txt

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-apprise==1.8.1
+apprise==1.9.0
 ntplib==0.4.0
 pytz==2024.1  # Remove when this script only supports Python 3.9+
 requests==2.31.0
-seleniumbase==4.29.9
+seleniumbase==4.31.2