Using Markdown for Notifications with Compatible Clients

Winify is able to render markdown notifications such that any provided links that are sent as markdown links can be clicked directly as the notification pops up. This is useful because it would take the user from the notification directly to the website that is being monitored just by clicking the link.

In order to accomplish this and assuming Winify already subscribes to Gotify, the following changedetection.io changes can be made as per the following image.

Using words, the notification URL would have to be changed in order to include format=markdown, which tells Gotify to send the notification with the special markdown text body type such that Winify can interpret it. Next, the body of the notification can now contain markdown links, for example:

[Games Hot-List]({{watch_url}}) has been updated!

where:

• {{watch_url}} is a dynamically interpolated variable that will expand to the monitored URL (General → URL)

It is also possible to make Gotify send all notifications as markdown by changing the global settings but unless it is needed for all notification it is much better to switch to markdown on a per-monitored website basis.

In the previous example, changedetection.io is made to monitor a game-list website and send a notification when the list has been updated.