How do I send a notification to myself from code?
The easiest way is Lert. Copy your link and POST to it from your code — Python, Node, Go, anything. Your phone buzzes in about a second. It's a plain HTTP request, so you use the library you already have; no account, no key, no SDK.
Sending yourself a notification from code should be one line, not a dependency. With Lert it is: your unique link is an HTTP endpoint, so whatever HTTP client your language already ships — requests, fetch, net/http, curl — is all you need. No SDK to install, no key to load from the environment, and nothing to initialize before the call.
Wire it into your code — under 30 seconds
- Download the app. Open it once. No account to create.
- Copy your link. It's on screen — one tap copies it.
- Drop it in your code. Store it as a constant or env var and POST to it wherever you want a buzz.
Add it to the end of a long job, a catch block, or a success path — anywhere you'd otherwise stare at logs.
From Python — the whole thing
import requests requests.post( "https://lert.dev/p/your-id", json={"title": "Job done", "body": "Nightly report finished", "tag": "reports"}, )
The same one call works from any language — swap requests for fetch in Node or http.Post in Go. Full walkthroughs live in the Python guide and the curl guide.
Why it's frictionless in code: no client library to version, no key to leak, no auth handshake. The URL carries everything, so wrapping it in a two-line notify() helper is often all a project needs. Want to hand it to your AI instead? Tell it to add a Lert call and paste the link.
Common ways people use it
- When a Python script finishes
- When a deploy finishes
- When a scheduled job runs
- When an AI agent finishes a task
It's free for one channel and 50 notifications a day; Lert Pro is $2.99/month for unlimited. See the docs for the full API.
Send your first one in 30 seconds.
Download Lert, copy your link, POST from your code. Your phone buzzes.