Reputation: 20587

Notification using python

Is it possible to add a notification in windows using python? Like a notification box with some information about an update or something

In windows if you didn't already figure that by this picture..

notification

Upvotes: 37

Answers (5)

Patrick Z

Reputation: 111

It's recommended to use win11toast because win10toast has some issues (e.g. missing support to interactive toasts) and hasn't been updated for 7 years.

Although it is called win11toast, it actually works on Windows 10 as well.

First, install it with pip

python -m pip install win11toast

Let's create a simple toast

from win11toast import toast

toast('Hello Python🐍')

Or an interactive toast

from win11toast import toast

toast('Hello Python', 'Click to open url', on_click='https://www.python.org')

Upvotes: 1

user13096898

Reputation:

First, install win10toast by using pip:

pip install win10toast

Then, import it:

from win10toast import ToastNotifier

Make a variable called toast:

toast = ToastNotifier()

Show the toast variable:

toast.show_toast(
    "Notification",
    "Notification body",
    duration = 20,
    icon_path = "icon.ico",
    threaded = True,
)

It should look something like this:

Upvotes: 54

abcd1234

Reputation: 131

You can use you plyer to display notifications:

from plyer import notification

notification.notify(
title = "Sample Notification",
message = "This is a sample notification",
timeout = 10
)

Or you can run this code and generate notifications:

from plyer import notification

import tkinter as tk

root = tk.Tk()

tk.Label(root , text = 'NOTIFICATION DEVELOPER').grid(row = 0, column = 0)
tk.Label(root , text = 'Notification Title:').grid(row = 3, column = 0)
tk.Label(root , text = 'Notification Message').grid(row = 4, column = 0)
tk.Label(root , text = 'Seconds for which it appears'). grid(row = 5, column = 0)

t1 = tk.Entry(root)
t1.grid(row = 3, column = 1)

m = tk.Entry(root)
m.grid(row = 4, column = 1)

tm = tk.Entry(root)
tm.grid(row = 5, column = 1)

def strt():
    a = int(tm.get())
    notification.notify(
    title = t1.get(),
    message = m.get(),
    timeout = a
    )
tk.Button(root , text = 'START NOTIFICATION' , command = strt).grid(row = 6, column = 0)

root.mainloop()

If you want he notifications to be displayed again after some time, you can use time.sleep(a) and loop the code. (a = time after which the notification will be displayed again.

For inserting icons, use app_icon: