Notigo

💬 Send iOS/Android notifications using IFTTT's Webhook 💬

go get github.com/scotow/notigo

IFTTT

From Wikipedia:

IFTTT is a free web-based service to create chains of simple conditional statements, called applets. An applet is triggered by changes that occur within other web services such as Gmail, Facebook, Telegram, Instagram, or Pinterest.

IFTTT proposes hundreds of triggers, but the one that Notigo uses is the Webhook trigger (also known as Maker Event).

By creating an IFTTT applet that send a rich notification to your device when a Webhook is triggered, we can create a simple wrapper that call the specified URL to trigger it from a HTTP call.

IFTTT account and mobile app

In order to receive a notification from IFTTT, you have to create an IFTTT account and download the iOS app or the Android app.

Creating the IFTTT applet

Next, you need to create the corresponding applet in your IFTTT account. Applets that use Webhook as a trigger can't be share like other applets, so you need to create it manually:

• Go to the applet creation page;
• Search for webhook and select the Receive a web request trigger;
• Specify the name of the event (notigo is the default one used in the command example);
• Click on Create trigger;
• For the that action, search for notification and select the Send a rich notification from the IFTTT app action;
• Use the Add ingredient button to add value1 as a title and value2 as a message. Leave the others blank.

The final configuration of the applet looks like this:

Getting the Webhook key

The last step before using the applet is to get your Webhook key. Head to the Webhook settings page then click on the Documentation button on the upper right corner.

Now that you have created the applet and got your Webhook key, you can use the library or the example command.

Using the library

Here is a simple example that send a notification with "Test" as a title and "Hello from GitHub" as a message:

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"log"

	"github.com/scotow/notigo"
)

func main() {
	notification := notigo.NewNotification("Test", "Hello from GitHub")
	key := notigo.Key("eHolJ7y7b8KVk4wUgZS6mY")

	err := key.Send(notification)
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatalln(err)
	}

	fmt.Println("Notification sent.")
}

You can use the func (k *Key) SendEvent(n Notification, event string) error and specify a custom event name if you registered a different one while creating the applet.

Using an empty string as a title or using the func NewMessage(message string) Notification function will try to use the hostname of the machine as a title.

Using the command

This repo has a simple command that allows you to send a notification from your favorite shell.

Usage of notigo:

notigo [-k KEY]... [-K PATH]... [-e EVENT] [-t TITLE] [-f PATH]... [-m [-s SEPARATOR]] [-d DELAY] [-c] ARGS...

  -k, --key=KEY                      List of key(s) to use
  -K, --keys-path=PATH               List of file path(s) that contains key(s) (default: ~/.config/notigo/keys if no key specified)
  -e, --event=EVENT                  Event key passed to IFTTT (default: notigo)
  -t, --title=TITLE                  Title of the notification(s)
  -f, --file=PATH                    List of file(s) used for content
  -m, --merge                        Content should be merged
  -s, --merge-separator=SEPARATOR    Separator used while merging content (default: "\n")
  -d, --delay=DELAY                  Delay between two notifications (default: 3s)
  -c, --concurrent                   Concurrently send notifications to the keys

If no keys is specified using the -k or -K option, the command will fallback to the ~/.config/notigo/keys file if it exists.

The file(s) containing keys (-K option or the fallback config file), must contains one key per line.

If no notification content is specified using the -f option, the concatenation of the remaining arguments is used. Or, in last resort, the command will read from STDIN.

Installing the command

To build a binary of this command, simply clone the repo and the run go build . while being in the cmd/notigo directory.

For Arch Linux users, the command is available on the AUR repositories at the following address : notigo.

Enjoy simple notifications!