A utility for sending push notifications
Project description
ntfy brings notification to your shell. It can automatically provide desktop notifications when long running commands finish or it can send push notifications to your phone when a specific command finishes. Confused? This video demonstrates some of this functionality:
Quickstart
$ sudo curl -L -o /usr/bin/ntfy https://github.com/dschep/ntfy/releases/download/v2.0.0/ntfy
$ sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/ntfy
$ ntfy send test
# send a notification when the command `sleep 10` finishes
# this send the message '"sleep 10" succeeded in 0:10 minutes'
$ ntfy done sleep 10
$ ntfy -b pushover -o user_key t0k3n send 'Pushover test!'
$ ntfy -t 'ntfy' send "Here's a custom notification title!"
$ echo -e 'backends: ["pushover"]\npushover: {"user_token": "t0k3n"}' > ~/.config/ntfy/ntfy.yml
$ ntfy send "Pushover via config file!"
$ ntfy done --pid 6379 # PID extra
$ ntfy send ":tada: ntfy supports emoji! :100:" # emoji extra
# Enable shell integration
$ echo 'eval "$(ntfy shell-integration)"' >> ~/.bashrc
Install
The single file executable installed in the quickstart above includes all dependencies and only requires python to be installed. As such, it works on Mac OS and most Linux distros. It can also be installed via pip: pip install ntfy`. It can be installed in a virtualenv, with caveats. Linux notifications requires --system-site-packages to be used and OS X notifications don’t work at all. ntfy can also be installed via pip, but pid support, emojis and xmpp are extras.
Shell integration
ntfy has support for automatically sending notifications when long running commands finish in bash and zsh. In bash it emulates zsh’s preexec and precmd functionality with rcaloras/bash-preexec. To enable it add the following to your .bashrc or .zshrc:
eval "$(ntfy shell-integration)"
By default it will only send notifications for commands lasting longer than 10 seconds and the terminal is focused. Terminal focus works on X11(Linux) and with Terminal.app and iTerm2 on MacOS. Both options can be configured via the --longer-than and --foreground-too options.
To avoid unnecessary notifications when running interactive programs programs listed in AUTO_NTFY_DONE_IGNORE don’t generate notifications. for example:
export AUTO_NTFY_DONE_IGNORE="vim screen meld"
Configuring ntfy
ntfy is configured with a YAML file stored at ~/.config/ntfy/ntfy.yml
Backends
The backends key specifies what backends to use by default. Each backend has it’s own configuration, stored in a key of it’s own name. For example:
---
backends:
- pushover
- linux
- xmpp
pushover:
user_key: hunter2
pushbullet:
access_token: hunter2
xmpp:
jid: "user@gmail.com"
password: "xxxx"
mtype: "chat"
recipient: "me@jit.si"
If you want mulitple configs for the same backend type, you can specify any name and then specify the backend with a backend key. For example:
---
pushover:
user_key: hunter2
cellphone:
backend: pushover
user_key: hunter2
See the backends bellow for available backends and options.
Pushover - pushover
- Required parameters:
user_key
- Optional parameters:
sound
priority
expire
retry
callback
access_token - use your own application token
device - target a device, if omitted, notification is sent to all devices
url
url_title
html
Pushbullet - pushbullet
- Required parameter:
access_token - Your Pushbullet access token, created at https://www.pushbullet.com/#settings/account
- Optional parameters:
device_iden - a device identifier, if omited, notification is sent to all devices
email - send notification to pushbullte user with the specified email or send an email if they aren’t a pushullet user
XMPP - xmpp
- Requires parameters:
jid
password
recipient
- Optional parameters
hostname (if not from jid)
port
path_to_certs
mtype (‘chat’ required for Google Hangouts)
To verify the SSL certificates offered by a server: path_to_certs = “path/to/ca/cert”
Without dnspython library installed, you will need to specify the server hostname if it doesn’t match the jid.
For example, to use Google Talk you would need to use: hostname = ‘talk.google.com’
Specify port if other than 5222. NOTE: Ignored without specified hostname
Linux Desktop Notifications - linux
Works via dbus, works with most DEs like Gnome, KDE, XFCE and with libnotify.
Windows Desktop Notifications - win32
Uses pywin32.
Mac OS X Notification Center - darwin
Requires ntfy to be installed globally (not in a virtualenv).
Other options
Title is configurable with the title key in the config. Example:
---
title: Customized Title
Backends ToDo
Testing
python setup.py test
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