Looking for a way to broadcast notifications of new media to a whatsapp group, which I use for requests and new media. It just me, kids and friends (10 users).

Not all have Discord, so that option is out (however well documented).

Anyone seen anything on this?

Greatly appreciated.

Side note; Been running my server for around 5 months. Have all the usuall plugins installed, custom branding, LiveTV through an iptv service, schedule, recordings etc etc. Absolutely loving it. It's just perfect. It's grown rapidly. Over 160 Movies and 90 odd TV Shows and counting. I've already bought two extra HDD's to accommodate. It literally never fails. Any client, flawless, even on the fixed tablet in the car. Now if only I could get notifications via WhatApp to save me doing this manually with every new episode/film. Complete automation is the goal.

Edit: my bad spelling.

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[–] macgregor 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I think you will have trouble getting a notification specifically to WhatsApp because it's a proprietary app without an official public API (from what I can tell). The top relevant results when looking for WhatsApp notifications just generally were more proprietary services mostly targeted at businesses. Not a promising sign. I found some claims of open source whatsapp apis, mostly JavaScript/browser based but I have no idea if they work (reliably) or how easy it would be to integrate with Jellyfin. I could be wrong, but I didn't find many promising results after about 10-15 minutes and as a software engineer I basically google tech shit for a living.

Your best bet is one of the options spelled out with the Jellyfin webhook plugin or Jellyseer (which looks like basically the same options at a glance):

Some of those would allow your users to get notifications by installing a special client on their phone. If you want to selfhost try Ntfy, if you don't try Pushbullet ($5 OTP). so for example you can run a Ntfy service on the same machine as Jellyfin, webhook Jellyfin events to Ntfy, then your users can install the Ntfy mobile app on their phone and subscribe to events from your selfhosted Ntfy instance (or something close to that, I haven't set up Ntfy yet but had plans to).

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

Goodness me. Thanks so much for your detailed reply. I appreciate the time spent looking into this and the great suggestions. I will look into all of the above. Jellyseerr/Ntfy looks like the best option. Thanks again.

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

Jellyseer seems pretty cool if you're managing a media server for people. I just manage Jellyfin for myself so I haven't looked that deeply in to it.

Good luck!

[–] Nostromo 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks!