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

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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 [email protected] 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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[–] Rooki 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

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 )

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Thanks dude. I'm going to try the curl route. What do you mean by it sends you every post? Isn't that what I want?

[–] Rooki 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Yeah but you would have to know what posts are new and not already known.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's what saving the IDs is for right? It's easy enough to do in a bash script I think. I'll post it here later, assuming I get it to work.

[–] Rooki 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But i would not know how to save the ids there. But good luck :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Here ya go. ChatGPT did all the hard work: https://chat.openai.com/share/7703dbe5-6801-4d5b-8d56-c3f18ca3ac4a

Edit: here's a manually refined version: https://gist.github.com/binwiederhier/70f13b7c7338a2b75e15438b5567a6d6

[–] Rooki 1 points 11 months ago

Ah ok now i know how to save things in files with bash :)

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