Notificator is a command-line tool to show notifications from Alfred Workflows with their icon.
Download the executable at the root of this repository and include it in your workflow.
Trigger macOS notifications from Alfred, using the Workflow icon.
Message is mandatory. Other flags are optional.
Usage:
notificator --message <text> [--title <text>] [--subtitle <text>] [--sound <name>]
Options:
-m, --message <text> Message text.
-t, --title <text> Title text.
-s, --subtitle <text> Subtitle text.
-p, --sound <name> Sound name (from /System/Library/Sounds).
-h, --help Show this help.
While it is possible to trigger notifications from AppleScript, those show a generic icon. To have a custom icon in full view, an app is required.
Notificator’s purpose is to create these small specialised apps. The icon is extracted from the Workflows’s root directory and the bundle identifier is derived from the Workflow’s—it is cleaned up and .notificator is appended.
The first time the script is run on a user’s machine, the app is seamlessly created to the Workflow’s cache directory and macOS prompts the user to allow notifications. On subsequent runs, the cached app is run directly. The app is rebuilt if it is over a month old at the time of the notification, to refresh outdated icons.
A macOS bug may cause notifications to show a prohibitory symbol on top of the app icon. Logout or restart macOS to fix it.