Create a Desktop Notification with Python

In this article we are going to show you how to create a desktop notification app to get a reminder to rest after every hour. Your message and alert can be absolutely anything you want.

For this task, you need to install a Python library known as Plyer, which is used to access the hardware components of your system. It is cross-platform so will work on Android, Windows, Linux, OS X and iOS

About

Plyer is a platform-independent api that uses features commonly found on various platforms, notably mobile ones, in Python.

You can refer to the following table to see what I supported on your platform, keep in mind that some of the features may not be available on a certain platform

Supported APIs

Install

pip install plyer

Syntax

notify(title=”, message=”, app_name=”, app_icon=”, timeout=10, ticker=”, toast=False)

Parameters:

title (str) – Title of the notification
message (str) – Message of the notification
app_name (str) – Name of the app launching this notification
app_icon (str) – Icon to be displayed along with the message
timeout (int) – time to display the message for, defaults to 10
ticker (str) – text to display on the status bar as the notification arrives
toast (bool) – simple Android message instead of a full notification

Example

import time
from plyer import notification
 
 
if __name__=="__main__":
 
        notification.notify(
            title = "YOUR HEADING HERE",
            message="A DESCRIPTION HERE" ,
           
            # displaying time
            timeout=5
)
        # waiting time
        time.sleep(10)