# Best notification app on android?

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**Category:** General\
**Created:** [17 October 2019 11:20 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/best-notification-app-on-android/16809 "2019-10-17T11:20:19Z")\
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**Post date:** [1 October 2020 05:21 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/best-notification-app-on-android/16809/20 "2020-10-01T05:21:11Z")

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You can apparently send an image through discord using the same webhook, but I haven't got to it yet. It seems easy enough, but I haven't figured out the correct syntax for the http request node's "file upload".

To get started, you make a Discord account and create a "server" (not a real server, but that's what they call a chat room). There will be a default channel called "general" which you can use or create a new channel. Right click on the server icon (left pane) and go to server settings --\> integrations --\> webhooks. Give it a name and copy the URL that it generates. This is the URL you put in your http request node. If you do a GET request on this URL, it will return a JSON string containing the auth token and all the other parameters you need to configure a change node that feeds into your http request node.

You could do the initial request in node-red and pass the returned values to more nodes to be processed, but since the values never change, I just do a GET in my browser and manually copy/paste the values into a change node which pipes into an http request node that goes off to discord.

I believe there are a couple of discord node-red modules available which might make it easier, but I haven't tried them because it's easy enough to do it this way.

I could post the flow if you really want it, but since there are a lot of personal values in there, it would take some time to sanitize and I want to go to bed. It did take me a bit to figure out how to properly write the JSONata payload ([this helped](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/guide-to-using-json-option-in-change-node/2478/4)).

The [discord developer docs](https://discord.com/developers/docs/resources/webhook) were also helpful.

Let me know if you need the flow or some screenshots and I might get to it later.

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