terminal-notifier HTTP Server

This is a trivial HTTP interface to the terminal-notifier app. It can be used to send notifications to the macOS (former OS X) Notification Center via HTTP. It uses Sinatra to do all the non-magical magic.

One reason to do so is sending notifications to a remote machine.

Another one is that it allows sending notifications from a web server running on localhost. The web server service usually is usually run by a different user account than the desktop, normally _www. However, terminal-notifier sends the notification for the current user and it can not send it for a different one. This HTTP server can be used as a workaround: Run it using your desktop user account and send the notifications to it over HTTP.

Usage

1. Run the server.

$ ./server.rb

2. Send something to it. All the GET or POST params are directly translated to the named arguments of the TerminalNotifier.notify method. The only exception is the message key that conveys a body of the notification. It is sent as a first argument of the TerminalNotifier.notify method and does not become a part of the named arguments hash.

$ curl 'http://localhost:4001/notify?message=world!&title=Hello'