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Pushcut#

Pushcut is an app for iOS that lets you create smart notifications to kick off shortcuts, URLs, and online automation.

Credentials

You can find authentication information for this node here.

Basic Operations#

  • Notification
    • Send a notification

Example Usage#

This workflow allows you to send daily weather updates via a push notification using the Pushcut node. You can also find the workflow on n8n.io. This example usage workflow uses the following nodes. - Cron - OpenWeatherMap - Pushcut

The final workflow should look like the following image.

A workflow with the Pushcut node

1. Cron node#

The Cron node will trigger the workflow daily at 9 AM.

  1. Click on Add Cron Time.
  2. Set hours to 9 in the Hour field.
  3. Click on Execute Node to run the node.

In the screenshot below, you will notice that the Cron node is configured to trigger the workflow every day at 9 AM.

Using the Cron node to trigger the workflow daily at 9 am

2. OpenWeatherMap node (Current Weather)#

This node will return data about the current weather in Berlin. To get the weather updates for your city, you can enter the name of your city instead.

  1. First of all, you'll have to enter credentials for the OpenWeatherMap node. You can find out how to do that here.
  2. Enter berlin in the City field.
  3. Click on Execute Node to run the node.

In the screenshot below, you will notice that the node returns data about the current weather in Berlin.

Using the OpenWeatherMap node to get weather updates for Berlin

3. Pushcut node (send: notification)#

This node will send a push notification with the weather update, which was sent by the previous node.

  1. First of all, you'll have to enter credentials for the Pushcut node. You can find out how to do that here.
  2. Select a notification from the Notification Name dropdown list.
  3. Click on Add Field and select 'Title' from the dropdown list.
  4. Enter Today's Weather Update in the Title field.
  5. Click on Add Field and select 'Text' from the dropdown list.

  6. Click on the gears icon next to the Text field and click on Add Expression.

  7. Enter the following message in the Expression field: Hey! The temperature outside is {{$node["OpenWeatherMap"].json["main"]["temp"]}}°C..

  8. Click on Execute Node to run the node.

In the screenshot below, you will notice that the node sends a push notification to your device with the weather update.

Using the Pushcut node to send weather updates via a push notification

Activate workflow for production

This example workflow uses the Cron node, which is a Trigger node. You'll need to save the workflow and then click on the Activate toggle on the top right of the screen to activate the workflow. Your workflow will then be triggered as specified by the settings in the Cron node.