Feature request: Publish ntfy notification when someone posts a comment

[xdpirate]

Great app. I've been using Chyrp Lite for many years at this point, but I'm missing one feature, notifications for new comments. Every so often I will get a comment on my website, but miss it for weeks or months due to not being notified. Email notifications are enabled but I've never received an email from the site.

Would it be possible to add a feature to push a message to ntfy once a comment is posted? ntfy is a free pub-sub notification service that can be pushed to via http/s. You only need to define a ntfy topic (https://ntfy.sh/$ntfy_topic) then send a PUT/POST request to that URI, then clients that subscribe to that topic via web/desktop app/mobile app will receive the notification.

Once the comments module has posted a comment, it could do something like...

$userTopic = "my_awesome_topic"; // get from saved settings

if($ntfyEnabled) {
    file_get_contents("https://ntfy.sh/$userTopic", false, stream_context_create([
        'http' => [
            'method' => 'POST',
            'header' => "Content-Type: text/plain\r\n" .
            "Actions: view, View post, https://url/to/post",
            'content' => 'Somebody just commented on your post!'
        ]
    ]));
}

Documentation for publishing messages to ntfy: https://docs.ntfy.sh/publish/

[xenocrat]

Hello there,

Thank you for the kind words! I'm glad you're enjoying Chyrp Lite.

The email notifications system uses PHP's mail function, which relies on the server having a MTA set up and running. Could be the configuration on your server is not allowing PHP to send the emails, or they are getting accepted by the MTA and then permanently stuck in its queue without getting sent.

I've never heard of ntfy but it looks interesting and mercifully simple to interact with. ;-) I'll read up on ntfy and look into it.

[xdpirate]

I use paid hosting due to wanting to avoid the incessant intrusion attempts that happen when you host something locally, so I'm sure this is an issue with my hosting provider and not a problem with Chyrp Lite!

And yes, ntfy is very simple, and free up to a certain number of notifications per day, so I use it a lot in scripts and stuff to alert me to various events in my local environment (Docker image updates via diun, Sonarr events, re-encoding scripts finishing, etc, etc.), it's super handy. If you use a GUID as a topic name and don't publish it anywhere, you basically have a private notification stream that's super easy to push to. And that's great, really hoping this feature makes it into Chyrp Lite, keep up the great work 😁

[xdpirate]

#347 @xenocrat @chris-evelyn Great to see the interest in implementing my request! Just pointing out in response to @xenocrat that the ntfy topic should not be hard coded and should be user configurable. Like many ntfy users, I subscribe to my "own" topic (which is just a random GUID) and get notifications from all my sources sent to that single topic so I don't have to juggle several when they are all going to me anyway. Topics are essentially infinite and free to create/use.