Notification using ntfy

[Stephane-30]

I read through the API manual but could find what I was looking for. Is there a way to catch Reminder notifications that can be used to trigger a script or curl command for a ntfy notification for example?

[timothepoznanski]

Not at the moment but I will work on it. However, you can send an email when there is a notification for a note and maybe catch this email. I personaly use a free account on Brevo as my SMTP server. It is working really well.

[Stephane-30]

I have the email feature set up and it works fine, but good to know it may by implemented in the future.

[Stephane-30]

Hi Tim @timothepoznanski . The webhook works very well with ntfy. Is there an option to 'beautify' the message? It's difficult to read as it arrives as a JSON file all in one line.

[timothepoznanski]

Hi @Stephane-30, glad the webhook works with ntfy.

Poznote sends a JSON body, and since ntfy doesn't recognize it as its own format, it displays the whole raw JSON as the message. You don't need anything on the Poznote side, ntfy can format it for you with its message templating feature (ntfy v2.10.0 and later): add tpl=yes to the topic URL along with a title (t=) and a message (m=) built from the payload fields.

For the reminder.due event, use a webhook URL like this:

https://ntfy.sh/your-topic?tpl=yes&t={{.data.note.heading}}&m={{.data.reminder.message}}

That gives you the note title as the notification title and the reminder text as the body, instead of the raw JSON.

You can add the direct link to the note as well:

https://ntfy.sh/your-topic?tpl=yes&t={{.data.note.heading}}&m={{.data.reminder.message}}%0A{{.data.note.url}}

(%0A is a line break. The link is only filled in if you set the app URL in the SMTP settings, it is the same source the reminder emails use.)

The available fields depend on the event you subscribed to:

• reminder.due: data.note.id, data.note.heading, data.note.workspace, data.note.url, data.reminder.id, data.reminder.message, data.reminder.trigger_at
• reminder.due_title: same without data.reminder.message and data.note.workspace
• reminder.due_minimal: only data.note.id, data.reminder.id, data.reminder.trigger_at

Note that I haven't tested this against a real ntfy instance, so it's theoretical and based on the ntfy documentation. The field names come from the actual Poznote payload, but you may need to adjust the template syntax. Let me know how it goes. 😊

Docs: https://docs.ntfy.sh/publish/#message-templating