toast

To send notifications within a Go application, use the gopkg.in/toast.v1 package. Create a toast.Notification struct and call its .Push() method.

Notification Fields:

• AppID: The application identifier.
• Title: The notification title.
• Message: The notification body text.
• Icon: Path to an existing image file to use as an icon.
• Actions: A slice of toast.Action objects to provide interactive buttons.

package main

import (
    "log"

    "gopkg.in/toast.v1"
)

func main() {
    notification := toast.Notification{
        AppID: "Example App",
        Title: "My notification",
        Message: "Some message about how important something is...",
        Icon: "go.png", // This file must exist
        Actions: []toast.Action{
            {"protocol", "I'm a button", ""},
            {"protocol", "Me too!", ""},
        },
    }
    err := notification.Push()
    if err != nil {
        log.Fatalln(err)
    }
}

You can use the toast CLI tool to trigger Windows 10 toast notifications from any project. Download the appropriate binary (64-bit or 32-bit) and use the following flags to configure your notification:

• --app-id: The identifier for your application.
• --title: The heading of the notification.
• --message: The body text of the notification.
• --icon: Path to an icon image file.
• --audio: Specify audio to play (e.g., default).
• --loop: Enables looping audio.
• --duration: Sets the notification duration (e.g., long).
• --activation-arg: An argument passed when the notification is activated.
• --action: Defines a button. Requires a corresponding --action-arg.

C:\Users\Example\Downloads\toast64.exe \
  --app-id "Example App" \
  --title "Hello World" \
  --message "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit." \
  --icon "C:\Users\Example\Pictures\icon.png" \
  --audio "default" --loop \
  --duration "long" \
  --activation-arg "https://google.com" \
  --action "Open maps" --action-arg "bingmaps:?q=sushi" \
  --action "Open browser" --action-arg "http://..."

The following flags are available to configure the toast notification via the CLI:

# Example with multiple action buttons
toast --title "Alert" --message "System update available" \
  --action "Install Now" --action-type "protocol" --action-arg "myapp://install" \
  --action "Later" --action-type "protocol" --action-arg "myapp://later"