I have a self-hosted ntfy instance and I am gradually building a bare-bones mobile app to display my notifications.

I am publishing by POSTing as JSON. Is it possible for the ntfy server to send all the data fields that are included in the JSON? I would like to pass data in custom fields. Makes sense?

If this does not exist, is it possible to make a feature-request?

  • binwiederhier@discuss.ntfy.shMEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

    Can you make an example? Like, you want to just send custom fields when you publish the message and then pass it along to where?

    • loving_ntfyOPEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      My backend POSTs notification JSON to self-hosted ntfy server:

      {
 "topic": "1234", 
 "message": "foo",
 "title": "bar",
 "customField": "baz"
}

      The ntfy server should broadcast all fields, including customField to the websockets/subscribers of this topic.

      Am I missing something?

      • binwiederhier@discuss.ntfy.shMEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        Got it. Yeah no that’s not supported. I have thought about adding that many times, but nobody’s asked for it so far.

        I’d probably call them extras though or something, so it’d be:

        {
 "topic": "1234", 
 "message": "foo",
 "title": "bar",
 "extras": {
   "customField": "baz"
 }
}
        • loving_ntfyOPEnglish
          2·
          11 months ago

          That would work great! So anything sent under "extras" would be forwarded verbatim to the mobile app.

          Is it too much trouble to implement?