Send Windows notifications from python3

notification.py

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
# Created by Marc_Alx
#
# pip install winrt
# Documentation here : https://github.com/Microsoft/xlang/tree/master/src/package/pywinrt/projection
# NB Only works with version of Windows that supports 'windows.ui.notifications'
#
# Requirements
# Windows 10, October 2018 Update or later.
# Python for Windows, version 3.7 or later
# pip, version 19 or later
#

import winrt.windows.ui.notifications as notifications
import winrt.windows.data.xml.dom as dom

#create notifier
nManager = notifications.ToastNotificationManager
notifier = nManager.create_toast_notifier();

#define your notification as string
tString = """
<toast>
    <visual>
        <binding template='ToastGeneric'>
            <text>Sample toast</text>
            <text>Sample content</text>
        </binding>
    </visual>
</toast>
"""

#convert notification to an XmlDocument
xDoc = dom.XmlDocument()
xDoc.load_xml(tString)

#display notification
notifier.show(notifications.ToastNotification(xDoc))

what do you mean "create_toast_notifier();"

Hi, this is linked to one of my StackOverflow's answer. You need to install a library that makes Windows library available in python.

pip install winrt

(Which is documented here)

So "create_toast_notifier();" is the mapping for ToastNotificationManager.CreateToastNotifier as explained there.

I will add requirement comment to this gist.

Hi!

When I run your code, I get:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "notification.py", line 14, in <module>
    notifier = nManager.create_toast_notifier();
RuntimeError: Element not found.

Any idea of what is the problem?

Do you match the following requirements ?

Windows 10, October 2018 Update or later.
Python for Windows, version 3.7 or later
pip, version 19 or later

As pointed here : https://github.com/Microsoft/xlang/tree/master/src/package/pywinrt/projection#prerequisites

I match all requirements:

Windows 10 Home, version 1909 (OS Build 18363.752)
Python 3.7.0
pip 20.0.2

But when I searched for more information about Python/WinRT, I've found that the xlang team is not actively working on Python/WinRT, and the Python/WinRT project is not currently in a usable state, so at least for now I won't be using Python/WinRT. Thank you for your reply, anyway!

@AltoRetrato (and future viewers) I solved the error by changingnotifier = nManager.create_toast_notifier(); to notifier = nManager.create_toast_notifier("App-id);
However now no notification is showing.

So I've tried this example as the first attempt, but couldn't make it work in any possible way (maybe I'm missing smth). But in the end found sort of OK and clear example to get it running, it worked properly, just couldn't find a way to add image tho... that's for future probably:

from winrt.windows.ui.notifications import ToastNotificationManager, ToastNotification, ToastTemplateType

def toast_notification(AppID, title, text):
    XML = ToastNotificationManager.get_template_content(ToastTemplateType.TOAST_TEXT02)
    t = XML.get_elements_by_tag_name("text")
    t[0].append_child(XML.create_text_node(title))
    t[1].append_child(XML.create_text_node(text))
    notifier = ToastNotificationManager.create_toast_notifier(AppID)
    notifier.show(ToastNotification(XML))`

@iDre4M cool that you make it work !

The only difference I see is that you provide an AppID, is it a random string or an Id you register elsewhere ?

Also It would be interesting to see the XML you give to show.

For image you may look at the xml schema description by Microsoft : https://docs.microsoft.com/fr-fr/windows/uwp/design/shell/tiles-and-notifications/toast-schema#adaptiveimage seems to be an url pointing to an image.

@iDre4M cool that you make it work !

The only difference I see is that you provide an AppID, is it a random string or an Id you register elsewhere ?

Also It would be interesting to see the XML you give to show.

Well, this attempt is purely C# ish, where you don't write all that XML structure in a string, just add elements (that probably in the background either way ends up in XML structure) and XML was stated in the first line of the function.

Managed to fix issue with XML too, had to remove all the spaces at the start of each line, add "", give all elements their "IDs" and attributes if needed, no images from outside the local disk even then you had to give full path, buttons don't exist, all other functions are kind of out, unless that's because used older version, since latest (at that time) was experiencing import issues.

How do I get buttons to work?

Hi guys, I've created this as an easy to use package

https://pypi.org/project/win11toast/

Hi guys, I've created this as an easy to use package

https://pypi.org/project/win11toast/

Wow nice work! happy to have helped you with this gist.

is there a way to stack upcoming notifications over the previous ones as they come?