push-node

push-node

Faast push notification API module for node.js.

Installation

Normal install:

npm install push-node

Or the latest version from Github, can be unstable:

npm install git+https://github.com/fvdm/nodejs-push

Usage

To use this module you need an account at Faast and set the API token from your account.

Example

Send a notification to yourself.

// setup
var faast = require('push-node')( 'API token' )

// notify
faast.notify(
  {
    message: 'Alert message',
    action_loc_key: 'Alert Button'
    title: 'Subject line',
    subtitle: 'Below the subject',
    long_message: 'The message (also in preview if <b>long_message_preview</b> is not set)',
    long_message_preview: 'Preview text',
    run_command: 'http://example.net/12345'
  },
  console.log
)

Methods

The methods below take a callback function as last parameter. The callback receives two parameters err in case of an error and data.

function myCallback( err, data ) {
  if( err ) {
    console.log( err )
    console.log( err.stack )
  } else {
    console.log( data.id )
  }
}

faast.notify( props, myCallback )

Errors

message	description
request failed	The request cannot be made, see err.error
request closed	The connection was closed too early
invalid response	The API returned unparsable data
API error	The API returned an error, see err.code and err.body

settings ( callback )

The user account details and settings.

faast.settings( console.log )

Output

{ fb_push_command: 0,
  facebook_paid: true,
  force_twitter_client: true,
  twitter_sound: 'S',
  unlocked: true,
  weekend_silent_mode_at: '2000/01/02 23:00:00 +0000',
  facebook_sound: '' }

notify ( vars, callback )

Send a notification to the user.

faast.notify(
  {
    message: 'Alert message',
    long_message: 'The message (also in preview if <b>long_message_preview</b> is not set)',
    title: 'Subject line',
    subtitle: 'Below the subject',
    long_message_preview: 'Preview text',
    action_loc_key: 'Alert Button'
  },
  console.log
)

Output

{ title: 'Subject line',
  message_level: 0,
  long_message: 'The message (also in preview if <b>long_message_preview</b> is not set)',
  long_message_preview: 'Preview text',
  subtitle: 'Below the subject',
  send_at: '2012/07/11 19:27:00 +0000',
  id: 12345,
  favorite: false,
  hasread: false,
  message: 'Alert message',
  display_ads: false }

Fields

name	description
message	Alert message text
action_loc_key	Alert button text
title	Subject line
subtitle	Below the subject
long_message	HTML message content

                 | (also in preview if long_message_preview is not set)

long_message_preview | Preview text run_command | URL to open on 'action_loc_key' button silent | No alert window, just increase badge number message_level | Importance, -2 to 2 sound | Alert sound ID, | see https://gist.github.com/penso/1217045 icon_url | Notification icon URL

notifications ( callback )

Get a list (array) of notifications from the server.

faast.notifications( console.log )

Output

[ { thread_id: null,
    title: 'Subject line',
    send_at: '2012/07/11 19:34:15 +0000',
    app_id: null,
    long_message_preview: 'Preview text',
    subtitle: 'Below the subject',
    icon_url: null,
    id: 50103867 },
  { thread_id: null,
    title: 'Subject line',
    send_at: '2012/07/11 19:34:12 +0000',
    app_id: null,
    long_message_preview: 'Preview text',
    subtitle: 'Below the subject',
    icon_url: null,
    id: 50103866 } ]

destroyall ( callback )

Delete all notifications from the server. This won't touch the device(s) as they use a local cache.

faast.destroyall( console.log )

Output

{ Response: { OK: 'OK' } }

feeds ( callback )

Get a list (array) of subscribed RSS feeds.

faast.feeds( console.log )

Unlicense

This is free and unencumbered software released into the public domain.

Anyone is free to copy, modify, publish, use, compile, sell, or distribute this software, either in source code form or as a compiled binary, for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial, and by any means.

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THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

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