How to notify on every new post for a specific community? (discuss.ntfy.sh)

submitted 1 year ago by binwiederhier@discuss.ntfy.sh to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml

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Is it possible for Lemmy to send me a notification whenever somebody submits a new post to a specific community (one that I own)?

I started a project-specific community !ntfy@discuss.ntfy.sh that's supposed to be a support forum, and I have missed a few posts for many hours because there are no notifications.

I'd be ok too if there was a simple API and I'd have to write a small script, but it'd be nicer if it was built-in

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[-] WhoRoger@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

!hdev@lemmy.world has an automod bot, I'm just testing it too. Lemmy.world's api is inconsistent, but maybe that won't be a problem on your instance.

@Rooki@lemmy.world ?

[-] binwiederhier@discuss.ntfy.sh 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That implies that it's not a native feature. I gotta find the API docs then...

Edit: Looks like there is an easy-ish API. Examples:

$ curl -s "https://discuss.ntfy.sh/api/v3/post/list?sort=Hot"|jq '.posts[].post.name'
"Docker-compose + Traefik"
"[SOLVED] Self-hosted NTFY does not receive all notifications"
"Markdown is coming soon ... 🤩 😲"
"[disscussion] Lemmy push notifications with ntfy"
"Using healthchecks.io and ntfy.sh to wake you up if your services are down"
"Ntfy Connector: Modal-based discord bot to send,and now receive, ntfy notifications."
"Welcome to the new ntfy discussion board"
"ntfy Web Push / PWA support is coming soon"
"📢  ntfy Web Push / PWA: Request for testing!"
"ntfy release 🎉 - Now with Web Push and a progressive web app (hello iOS friends ❤️), and with dark mode for the web app! ntfy lets you send push notifications to your phone via a simple REST API, and"

[-] Rooki@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You have to fetch every comment every post every few minutes and save the ids somewhere.

I suggest you ( if you are a js programmer ) https://github.com/SleeplessOne1917/lemmy-bot , it fetches the newest posts, comments and saves it for persistency in a database, so that you dont get every 30 seconds notified.

If you want i can set up the bot for you or just guide you how you could do it :) If you want i can even host the bot on my server.

edit: if you want you can do it over with curl but its difficult because it sends you every post. not unread ones. ( and search sort for "new" for best results )