Linux Command Completion Status Notifier on Discord Channel

.bashrc

# put the snippet in your .bashrc or .zshrc (or the shell you prefer to use)
# and call it like ```notifire <command>```
# ```notifire sleep 5```



notifire()
{
    "$@"
    ret=$?
    if [[ $ret -eq 0 ]]
    then
        # "~/.custom-commands/lib/Notifire" is the path where I kept the webhook python script
        python3 ~/.custom-commands/lib/Notifire/discord_notifier.py $(uname) $(hostname) Successfully ran $@
    else
        python3 ~/.custom-commands/lib/Notifire/discord_notifier.py $(uname) $(hostname) Failed $@
    fi
}

README.md

1. Create a dedicated discord server, create a webhook to the server and copy the webhook link.
2. Replace in discord_notifier.py with copied webhook link and save the file to a location.
3. Copy the location and replace ~/.custom-commands/lib/Notifire with your location in the .bashrc file in this gist.
4. Now copy paste the modified .bashrc content in this gist to your terminal startup script.
5. Run any command followed by notifier and get notification on discord. (for ex: notifire sleep 2)
6. Video guide here

discord_notifier.py

# this is the python script to notify via discord channel

import requests, sys

url = "<discord webhook url here>"

data = {
}

data["embeds"] = [
    {
        "description" : f"{' '.join(sys.argv[1:])}",
        "title" : f"Notification from {' '.join(sys.argv[1:3])}"
    }
]

result = requests.post(url, json = data)

try:
    result.raise_for_status()
except requests.exceptions.HTTPError as err:
    print('NotiFire Err', err)