Send desktop notifications in Go

In this article, I will show you how to send desktop notifications in Go (golang). You can also make alerts and beep sound.

First, create a Go project and add following dependency into the project:

$ go get -u github.com/gen2brain/beeep

The beeep library provides a cross-platform library for sending desktop notifications, alerts and beeps.

To send a beep:

// send a beep

func execBeep() {
	err := beeep.Beep(beeep.DefaultFreq, beeep.DefaultDuration)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
}

To send notification:

// send notification

func execNotify() {
	err := beeep.Notify("Hello", "Nice to meet you", "info.png")
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
}

To send an alert:

// send alert

func execAlert() {
	err := beeep.Alert("Alert!", "Timeout! You need to take a break!", "warning.png")
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
}

That’s it, now you know how to send desktop notifications in Go, right?

Have fun!