GOTIFY n8n INTEGRATION: AUTOMATE GOTIFY WITH N8N

The Create Message action is the cornerstone of any Gotify n8n workflow—it's how you actually send push notifications to your devices. Whenever your automation needs to alert you about something important, this is the action you'll reach for.

Key parameters:

• Credential to connect with: This dropdown lets you select which Gotify credentials to use for authentication. It's required and determines which Gotify application the message will be sent through.
• Resource: Pre-set to "Message," indicating you're working with Gotify's notification system. This is a required dropdown selection.
• Operation: Set to "Create" to specify you're sending a new message. Required for the action to function.
• Message: The text input field where you enter the actual content of your notification. This is the core of the action—whatever you type here (or dynamically populate via expressions) appears on your devices. Required.
• Additional Fields: An expandable section for optional parameters like message title, priority level, or extras. Use these to customize how the notification appears and behaves.

Practical use cases:

• Send an instant alert when a website monitoring service detects downtime
• Notify yourself when a long-running database backup completes
• Push real-time updates when a new lead comes through your HubSpot n8n integration
• Alert on-call team members when error logs exceed a certain threshold

The Delete Message action helps you maintain a clean notification history by removing specific messages from your Gotify server. This is particularly useful for automated cleanup routines or when building workflows that manage notification lifecycle.

Key parameters:

• Credential to connect with: Dropdown to select your Gotify authentication credentials. Required to authorize the deletion request.
• Resource: Set to "Message" to indicate you're operating on Gotify notifications. Required dropdown.
• Operation: Set to "Delete" to specify the removal action. Required.
• Message ID: A text input where you provide the unique identifier of the message you want to delete. This field accepts fixed values or dynamic expressions, making it flexible for both static cleanup and dynamic workflows. Required.

Practical use cases:

• Build a retention workflow that deletes messages older than 30 days
• Remove resolved alert notifications once an incident is marked as fixed
• Clean up test messages after verifying a workflow works correctly

The Get Many Messages action retrieves multiple messages from your Gotify server at once. It's essential for building reporting workflows, creating notification digests, or analyzing your alert history programmatically.

Key parameters:

• Credential to connect with: Dropdown for selecting authentication credentials to connect to Gotify. Required.
• Resource: Set to "Message" to specify you're retrieving notification data. Required.
• Operation: Set to "Get Many" to fetch multiple records at once. Required.
• Return All: A toggle switch that, when enabled, ignores the limit and returns every available message. Optional—leave it off if you only need a subset.
• Limit: A numeric input specifying the maximum number of messages to retrieve (default is 20). Required when "Return All" is disabled. Expects a positive integer.

Practical use cases:

• Generate a daily email digest summarizing all notifications from the past 24 hours
• Feed message history into a spreadsheet or Airtable database for trend analysis
• Build a dashboard that displays recent alerts from multiple Gotify applications
• Audit notification patterns to identify recurring issues