Download completion notifications

Downloading a Blu-ray, converting video in ffmpeg, uploading a dump — tasks that take hours. You don’t want to sit at the terminal. Hook notifly-send to completion.

Universal bash trick `&&`/`||`

The simplest approach:

yt-dlp 'https://...' && \
    notifly-send "✅ Скачивание готово" "$(basename "$PWD")" 5 || \
    notifly-send "❌ Скачивание провалилось" "См. терминал" 8

Or use the single wrapper notifly-run — it catches success and failure with duration and the tail of the log.

Long ffmpeg conversion

notifly-run ffmpeg -i input.mkv -c:v libx264 -crf 20 -c:a aac out.mp4

The notification will include the duration and the last lines of the ffmpeg log (usually frame=… and the final bitrate).

yt-dlp: batch downloading a playlist

yt-dlp --download-archive done.txt -i \
       'https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=...' \
&& notifly-send "✅ Плейлист готов" "$(wc -l < done.txt) файлов" 4

Post-hook in yt-dlp

In ~/.config/yt-dlp/config:

--exec "echo {} | xargs -I{} ~/bin/notifly-send '🎬 Скачано' '{}' 4"

Each downloaded file is a separate push.

wget with progress

wget doesn’t have a built-in hook, but we run it inside a wrapper:

notifly-run wget -c 'https://example.com/huge.iso'

rsync for large transfers

notifly-run rsync -aHAX --info=progress2 /home/me/photos /mnt/nas/photos

Converting all `.mkv` files in a folder

for f in *.mkv; do
    out="${f%.mkv}.mp4"
    if ffmpeg -nostdin -i "$f" -c:v libx264 -crf 22 -c:a aac "$out" </dev/null; then
        notifly-send "✅ $out" "Готов." 3
    else
        notifly-send "❌ $f" "Ошибка ffmpeg." 7
    fi
done
notifly-send "🏁 Партия готова" "Сконвертировано: $(ls *.mp4 | wc -l)" 5

Windows: PowerShell `Notifly-Run`

An equivalent of &&/|| and notifly-run for Windows. Assumes a configured function Send-Notifly.

param([Parameter(Mandatory, ValueFromRemainingArguments)] [string[]]$Cmd)
. $env:USERPROFILE\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Notifly.ps1

$start = Get-Date
$log   = New-TemporaryFile
$label = ($Cmd -join ' ').Substring(0, [Math]::Min(60, ($Cmd -join ' ').Length))

& $Cmd[0] $Cmd[1..($Cmd.Count-1)] *> $log
$rc  = $LASTEXITCODE
$dur = ((Get-Date) - $start)
$tail = (Get-Content $log -Tail 12) -join "`n"

if ($rc -eq 0) {
    Send-Notifly -Title "✅ $label" `
                 -Message "Длительность: $($dur.ToString('hh\:mm\:ss'))`n`n$tail" `
                 -Priority 4
} else {
    Send-Notifly -Title "❌ $label (rc=$rc)" `
                 -Message "Длительность: $($dur.ToString('hh\:mm\:ss'))`n`n$tail" `
                 -Priority 8
}
Remove-Item $log -Force
exit $rc

Usage:

.\Notifly-Run.ps1 yt-dlp 'https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=...'
.\Notifly-Run.ps1 ffmpeg -i input.mkv -c:v libx264 -crf 20 -c:a aac out.mp4
.\Notifly-Run.ps1 robocopy C:\Photos D:\Backup\Photos /MIR

Shortcut via alias in your PowerShell profile:

Set-Alias nrun C:\scripts\Notifly-Run.ps1
nrun yt-dlp 'https://...'

Batch convert .mkv → .mp4:

Get-ChildItem *.mkv | ForEach-Object {
    $out = $_.BaseName + ".mp4"
    nrun ffmpeg -nostdin -i $_.Name -c:v libx264 -crf 22 -c:a aac $out
}
Send-Notifly -Title "🏁 Партия готова" `
             -Message "MP4-файлов: $((Get-ChildItem *.mp4).Count)" -Priority 5

Benefits

Freedom from keeping a terminal tab open. You can close SSH/laptop and come back when the push arrives.
Metrics at hand. Duration, file size, status.
Task chains. One file downloaded → the next starts, and a push after each.

Further improvements

Send a link to the preview (video thumbnail or screenshot) in extras["client::display"].
Use priorities — fail = 8, success = 3.