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Chris Caron edited this page Jan 10, 2026
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- Source: https://github.com/Finb/bark-server (Bark itself identified here)
- Icon Support: No
- Message Format: Text
- Message Limit: not set
Bark is an iOS App which allows you to push custom notifications to your iPhone.
Valid authentication syntax is as follows:
bark://{host}/{device_key}bark://{host}:{port}/{device_key}
The secure versions:
barks://{host}/{device_key}barks://{host}:{port}/{device_key}
You can also notify more the one device at a time.
bark://{host}:{port}/{device_key1}/{device_key2}/{device_keyN}/
| Variable | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|
| device_key | Yes | The device key you wish to notify |
| sound | No | Optionally set a sound file to be played with notification sent. Supported sounds are identified here |
| click | No | Provide a hyperlink that should be associated with the notification |
| level | No | Specify the message level. Can be either active, timeSensitive, or passive. |
| badge | No | Provide a numerical value of 0 (zero) or greater to associate a badge with the bark icon on the iOS device. |
| category | No | Associate a category with your notification |
| group | No | Associate a group with your notification |
| image | No | Set to no if you do not want the Apprise alert level being placed as the icon associated with the message. |
| call | No | Boolean-like input. Accepts yes/no, true/false, 1/0, +/-. When enabled, payload includes 1. |
Send a Bark notification to all devices associated with a project:
# Assume:
# - our {hostname} is localhost
# - our {port} is 8080
# - our {device_key} is j300012fl9y0b5AW9g9Nsejb8P
apprise -vv -t "Test Message Title" -b "Test Message Body" \
bark://localhost:8080/j300012fl9y0b5AW9g9Nsejb8P