TerminalNotifier

Binds for terminal-notifier for Crystal Lang

Installation

Make sure you have terminal-notifier installed.

brew install terminal-notifier or gem install terminal-notifier

then add this to your application's shard.yml:

dependencies:
  terminal-notifier:
    github: marceloboeira/terminal-notifier.cr

Usage

require "terminal_notifier"

TerminalNotifier.notify("Hello World!") # => Notifies with the Hello World message
TerminalNotifier.notify("Hello World!", "Hello Title") # => Notifies with the Hello World message

TerminalNotifier.execute({ title: "My nice title" }) # => Notifies with custom params

Options

Credits to julienXX/terminal-notifier

At a minimum, you have to specify either the message , the remove or the list option.

message [required]

The message body of the notification.

Note that if this option is omitted and data is piped to the application, that data will be used instead.

title

The title of the notification. This defaults to ‘Terminal’.

subtitle

The subtitle of the notification.

sound

The name of a sound to play when the notification appears. The names are listed in Sound Preferences. Use 'default' for the default notification sound.

group

Specifies the ‘group’ a notification belongs to. For any ‘group’ only one notification will ever be shown, replacing previously posted notifications.

A notification can be explicitely removed with the -remove option, describe below.

Examples are:

The sender’s name to scope the notifications by tool.
The sender’s process ID to scope the notifications by a unique process.
The current working directory to scope notifications by project.

remove [required]

Removes a notification that was previously sent with the specified ‘group’ ID, if one exists. If used with the special group "ALL", all message are removed.

list [required]

Lists details about the specified ‘group’ ID. If used with the special group "ALL", details about all currently active messages are displayed.

The output of this command is tab-separated, which makes it easy to parse.

activate

Specifies which application should be activated when the user clicks the notification.

You can find the bundle identifier of an application in its Info.plist file inside the application bundle.

Examples are:

com.apple.Terminal to activate Terminal.app
com.apple.Safari to activate Safari.app

sender

Specifying this will make it appear as if the notification was send by that application instead, including using its icon.

Using this option fakes the sender application, so that the notification system will launch that application when the notification is clicked. Because of this it is important to note that you cannot combine this with options like execute, open, and activate which depend on the sender of the notification to be ‘terminal-notifier’ to perform its work.

For information on the ID see the activate option.

appIcon [10.9+ only]

Specifies The PATH of an image to display instead of the application icon.

WARNING: This option is subject to change since it relies on a private method.

contentImage [10.9+ only]

Specifies The PATH of an image to display attached inside the notification.

WARNING: This option is subject to change since it relies on a private method.

open

Specifies a resource to be opened when the user clicks the notification. This can be a web or file URL, or any custom URL scheme.

execute

Specifies a shell command to run when the user clicks the notification.