Use PowerShell to generate push notifications to your SmartPhone

This post is going to cover how to use Powershell to send push notifications to your smartphone using Powershell.

I recently discovered a web service called Notify17. It’s a really nifty little service which allows you to easily send push notifications to iOS/Andriod and Browsers.

It really is very easy to use. I started using it on Unix but I wanted the same functionality in one of my PowerShell Scripts. It couldn’t be easier:

$notifyParams = @{title="PowerShell Alert";content="Script has completed!"}
Invoke-WebRequest -Uri https://hook.notify17.net/api/raw/RAW_API_KEY -Method POST -Body $notifyParams

Most of the supplied examples use curl, which Windows does not have, but Invoke-WebRequest works perfectly.

This simple bit of code immediately generates a notification on my phone and my computer:

There are so many cool ways to use this, for example:

• Backup Failures
• Hardware Errors
• Website Down Notifications
• Notifications from Sensors etc
• Call it from Zapier to generate an alert

What I like really like about this service:

• So easy to use!
• E-Mails often get missed and it’s really useful to be able to get an alert for the really important stuff.

I modified my own Dell Hardware Alert script and tested it with Notify17 and it worked great, much better than getting an email which you might not see for a while.

Thanks to Alberto Marchetti for building Notify17.