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Gotify Server is a self-hosted message and notification server written in Go.

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Gotify Server is a self-hosted message and notification server written in Go. The idea is that you run it on your own machine or virtual server, and other programs send short messages to it over a REST API. Anything connected to the same server, such as the official Android app or the web interface, then receives those messages in real time over a WebSocket connection. The README says the project started because the authors wanted something simple and open source for this job, and most existing options were either abandoned or were commercial push services they could not self-host. The feature list in the README is short. You can send messages via the REST API and receive them via WebSocket. The server lets you manage users, the client devices that connect to it, and applications, which are the named sources that send the messages. There is a plugin system documented on the project website, a web interface bundled with the server in the ui folder, a separate command-line tool in the gotify/cli repository for sending messages from a shell, and an Android app in the gotify/android repository. The Android app is published on Google Play and on F-Droid. Documentation, install steps, configuration reference, and the REST API description all live on the project website at gotify.net. The README simply links out to those pages rather than repeating them. Docker images are published on Docker Hub, and tagged releases are available on GitHub. Contributions of bug reports, feature requests, documentation, and UI work are welcomed, with guidelines in a CONTRIBUTING.md file in the repository. The project follows semantic versioning for its tags. The license is the MIT License. Community chat is on Matrix in the gotify room, and continuous integration runs through GitHub Actions with code coverage reported through Codecov and a Go Report Card badge linked from the README.

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