How to send Desktop Notifications with Python

Just because we can

Introduction

In this article, I will demonstrate how to create a Simple Desktop Notifier using python. A desktop notifier is a program that produces a desktop notification in the form of a popup. In our case, we will use the plyer module.

Modules:

1. plyer: Plyer module is used to access the features of the hardware. This module does not comes built-in with Python. We need to install it externally. To install this module type the below command in the terminal.

pip install plyer

Approach:

Step 1) Import the notification class from plyer module.

from plyer import notification

Step 2) Call the notify method of this class.

Syntax: notify(title=”, message=”, app_name=”, app_icon=”, timeout=10, ticker=”, toast=False)

Parameters:

title (str) — Title of the notification

message (str) — Message of the notification

app_name (str) — Name of the app launching this notification

app_icon (str) — Icon to be displayed along with the message

timeout (int) — time to display the message for, defaults to 10

ticker (str) — text to display on status bar as the notification arrives

toast (bool) — simple Android message instead of full notification

Below is the implementation.

from plyer import notification

if __name__=="__main__":
    
    notification.notify(
        title = "ALERT!!!",
        message = "Take a break! It has been an hour!",
        timeout = 10
 )

Output