Prowl 4 Linux

26th of October, 2009 | Filed under Releases

Prowl must be one of the best apps that is currently offered on the iPhone. It offers push notifications which can be very easily implemented in a application thanks to the handy API. From the website:

“Prowl is the Growl client for the iPhone OS. Notifications from your Mac or Windows computer are sent to your iPhone or iPod touch using push. Prowl has an extensive API, which allows your scripts to integrate beautifully.”

Mac and Windows is nice but it doesn’t mention Linux support. It does however offer a host of libraries that allow easy integration into your project, but no real app. Until now.

Introducing Prow 4 Linux

It allows easy creation of Prowl messages via command-line, thus also helping you use it in various other apps, like rTorrent. More on that here.

Download!

Requirements: curl
(this is included in almost every linux distro)

Instructions:

1. Register at the Prowl website
2. Generate API Key
3. Install Prowl app on iPhone
4. Download the zip
5. Unzip
6. Edit prowl.sh and insert your API key
7. chmod +x prowl.sh
8. Try it!

Usage:

./prowl.sh priority(-2 to 2) appname description

Example:

./prowl.sh 0 "linux" "this is a test"