# dschep/ntfy

🖥️📱🔔 A utility for sending notifications, on demand and when commands finish.

Repository: https://github.com/dschep/ntfy
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/dschep-ntfy
Homepage: http://ntfy.rtfd.io
Language: Python
License: GPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: push-notifications, notifications, linux, windows, macos, bash, zsh
Last push: 2025-10-27T21:46:13+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 61/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 49, release rhythm 54, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3912, "days_push": 310, "days_rel": 310, "gap_med": 0.0, "n_releases_24m": 5}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 4977, forks 216 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:04.122023+00:00)

## What it is
ntfy is a Python command-line utility for sending notifications from the shell, either as desktop notifications or push notifications to phones via services like Pushover. It can automatically notify when long-running commands finish and offers shell integration for bash and zsh.

## Use cases
- send a push notification to my phone when a long command finishes
- get a desktop notification when a build completes
- notify me when a script finishes running in the terminal
- send notifications from shell scripts
- automatically alert me when a background process with a given pid exits
- add shell integration so every long command notifies me when done

## When to choose
- you want simple CLI-based notifications from bash/zsh without writing code
- you need push notifications to your phone when terminal commands finish
- you want automatic notification of long-running command completion via shell integration

## When to avoid
- you need a full notification server with a web interface (the unrelated ntfy.sh project fits better)
- you need programmatic notification APIs inside an application rather than a CLI tool
- you rely on macOS desktop notifications, which are reported as unsupported

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: maintenance
- function: cli, developer-tools, workflow-automation
- domain: developer-tools
- platform: windows, python, cli
- tags: push-notifications, shell-integration, desktop-notifications, bash, zsh, command-line, automation, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- dschep/ntfy (main) score 61

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:04.122023+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:17:43.820260+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/dschep/ntfy (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:04.122023+00:00, sha a827307dc528)
  - registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/ntfy/json (fetched 2026-08-29T08:59:27.756520+00:00, sha af23f81b7ea5)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.