Dropbox Notifications

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I'm in a little over my head, but what I want to do is easy enough to explain.

I'm a video editor, I want it so when a render is done it notify's me on my phone (through pushover or NMA). The notification part isn't hard, the detection is. Most of the time I render it out to dropbox to send a link to my client.

How I have first tried to do this.

1 Installed Growl and bubbly so growl will grab every system notification (including when the dropbox says download or upload done)

2 installed a non visible skin on growl that sends events to eventghost So they show up like this:

Main.Growl.WindowsNotifications.Other (u'2014-02-02 02.34.38.jpg added', u'"2014-02-02 02.34.38.jpg" was added to your Dropbox (click to view).')

But when I click and drag to add the event to a macro it just wants to copy "Main.Growl.WindowsNotifications.Other" Which would include everything. And I'm trying to make this just for dropbox. I've tried a wild card like *Dropbox* and that didn't tirgger.

I really wish it would only update me when I upload something to my public folder not the rest but honestly this is the only way I can seem to figure out how to do it. I know there is APIs in place and if I was smarter I'd probably setup a httpget and prase the RSS feed and scan that for keywords like "public" then copy the string and push it over to NMA. But I really wouldn't know the first thing about how to do any of that.

So does anyone have any better ideas? It be even cooler if it could be done for any folder on my computer so I could know when non dropbox renders are done but for right now just trying to take care of one thing at a time.

[kkl]

I'm in a little over my head, but what I want to do is easy enough to explain.
But when I click and drag to add the event to a macro it just wants to copy "Main.Growl.WindowsNotifications.Other" Which would include everything. And I'm trying to make this just for dropbox.

Depending on how your event is constructed, the rest of it (e.g. after ...Other) may be available as the variable eg.event.payload. If so, you can parse that variable and take additional action based on it. The simplest way to see if it's there is to add this python command in your macro after the event: "print eg.event.payload". Search for eg.event.payload and you'll find a fair number of threads.