node-notifier

A node module for sending notification using node. Uses terminal-notifier on mac, notify-send for Linux and growl for others.

For mac this is a wrapper for the terminal-notifier application by Eloy Durán.

Requirements

• Mac OS X (>= 10.8)
• Linux with the notify-send module
• Or Growl on Windows

If using Linux, notify-send must be installed on your system. However, terminal-notifier, comes bundled in the module. So on Mac, not additional installations is necessary.

If using Windows/Growl, growl must be installed. For windows see Growl for Windows. You can also use growl on mac, but you need to specify this manually (see API).

By default Notification Center will be used on Mac, notify-send will be used on Linux, and Growl will be used if neither mac or linux.

Install

$ npm install node-notifier

Standard Usage

var Notification = require('node-notifier');

var notifier = new Notification();
notifier.notify({
    message: 'Hello World'
});

Notification also has specifications for all types of notifications, to be used manually.

Example:

var nn = require('node-notifier');

new nn.NotificationCenter().notify();
new nn.NotifySend().notify();
new nn.Growl().notify(options);

Usage NotificationCenter

Same usage and parameter setup as terminal-notifier.

Example

Where terminal-notifier say to use the -message option, you can do this in node-notifier

var Notification = require('node-notifier');

var notifier = new Notification();
notifier.notify({
    message: 'Hello World'
});

You can specify the second argument as a callback for getting error and response.

var Notification = require('node-notifier');

var notifier = new Notification();
notifier.notify({
    title: 'My application',
    message: 'New notification'
}, function(error, response) {
    console.log(response);
});

The response will be given as an object. E.g., when running notifier.notify({list: "ALL"}), this could be the response:

{ response:
   [ { GroupID: null,
       Title: 'Terminal',
       Subtitle: null,
       Message: 'Another message',
       'Delivered At': Wed Dec 12 2012 15:23:38 GMT+0100 (CET) },
     { GroupID: null,
       Title: 'Terminal',
       Subtitle: null,
       Message: 'Another message',
       'Delivered At': Wed Dec 12 2012 15:23:31 GMT+0100 (CET) },
     { GroupID: 2,
       Title: 'Terminal',
       Subtitle: null,
       Message: 'Testing',
       'Delivered At': Wed Dec 12 2012 15:22:41 GMT+0100 (CET) },
     { GroupID: 1,
       Title: 'Terminal',
       Subtitle: null,
       Message: 'Testing',
       'Delivered At': Wed Dec 12 2012 15:22:29 GMT+0100 (CET) } ],
  type: 'list' }

There are three different types:

• deliviered when a message is delivered.
• removed when all or one message is removed. If all messages are removed, the response property will have several elements.
• list when a list is presented. Even when doing list: 1.

Usage NotifySend

var Notification = require('node-notifier');

var notifier = new Notification();
notifier.notify({
    title: 'Foo',
    message: 'Hello World'
    // .. and other notify-send flags
});

Usage NotifySend

var Notification = require('node-notifier');

var notifier = new Notification({
    // Options as passed to Growler
});
notifier.notify({
    title: 'Foo',
    message: 'Hello World'
    // and other growl options like sticky etc.
});

See more information for constructor options in growler.

Module TODO

1. Add tests for notify-send and growl