Adding a custom icon to macOS Notifications.

Custom Icons for macOS

Due to restrictions set by macOS, there isn't a way to add a custom icon on the fly. You'll need to create a customized version of the notifier used.

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Clone the notificator repo

git clone https://github.com/vitorgalvao/notificator

Follow the instructions in the README.md for adding a custom icon. It will spit out an .app. You'll need it for later.

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You now have two options.

• You can either build a custom wheel from this repository. This will include your custom notificator.
• You can provide a path to the custom notificator, and tell notify.py to use that one instead of the bundled version.

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Option 1

Clone the notify.py repo.

git clone https://github.com/ms7m/notify-py

Create your virtual environment

python -m venv venv

Install the dependencies to build

python3 -m pip install loguru
python3 -m pip install --user --upgrade setuptools wheel

After that's done, copy the .app into notifypy/os_notifiers/binary folder.

Make sure the executable inside /os_notifiers/binary/Notificator.app/Contents/Resources/Scripts/notificatorhas the needed permissions to execute.

Test before building

import notifypy
n = notifypy.Notify()
n.send()

You can also run the tests inside the tests/ folder. (Install pytest before)

If everything works out, go ahead and build the wheel.

python3 setup.py sdist bdist_wheel

You'll be supplied with a .whl inside the dist/ folder.

How you distribute this wheel is up to you. It's probably best to add it to a git repo, and add it to your requirements.txt file.

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Option 2

If you prefer, you can also forward a path to your custom notificator to notify.py by using the optional kwarg custom_mac_notificator.

import notifypy

n = notifypy.Notify(
	custom_mac_notificator="path/to/custom.app"
)

Make sure that the notificator is executable.