Luzifer / birthday-notifier

Previously I used an app on my phone to notify me on upcoming birthdays: One day in advance and on the same day. Then that app decided to add a skew of one day and notify me too late…

And that's why there is now a server based solution to notifying my of upcoming birthdays.

Features:

• Sync contacts using CardDAV
• Extract birthdays from the contacts
• Send notifications

Hosted somewhere it's always running and configured properly and birthday notifications are coming in properly.

Usage

# birthday-notifier --help
Usage of birthday-notifier:
      --fetch-interval duration       How often to fetch birthdays from CardDAV (default 1h0m0s)
      --log-level string              Log level (debug, info, warn, error, fatal) (default "info")
      --notify-days-in-advance ints   Send notification X days before birthday (default [1])
      --notify-via string             How to send the notification (one of: log, pushover) (default "log")
      --version                       Prints current version and exits
      --webdav-base-url string        Webdav server to connect to
      --webdav-pass string            Password for the Webdav user
      --webdav-principal string       Principal format to fetch the addressbooks for (%s will be replaced with the webdav-user) (default "principals/users/%s")
      --webdav-user string            Username for Webdav login

For Nextcloud leave the principal format the default, for other systems you might need to adjust it.

To adjust the notification text see the template in pkg/formatter/formatter.go and provide your own as NOTIFICATION_TEMPLATE environment variable.

Notifier configuration

• log - Just sends the notification to the console logs, no configuration available
• pushover - Send notification via Pushover
  • PUSHOVER_API_TOKEN - Token for the App you've created in the Pushover Dashboard
  • PUSHOVER_USER_KEY - Token for the User to send the notification to
  • PUSHOVER_SOUND - (Optional) Specify a sound to use