productreleasecli

CLI v1 Send notifications from your terminal

March 12, 2026

The API Alerts CLI is here. You can now send notifications directly from your terminal, shell scripts, and cron jobs — no SDK, no code, just a single command.

apialerts send --channel deploys --message "Build complete"

Installation

macOS (Homebrew)

brew install apialerts/tap/apialerts

Windows (Scoop)

scoop bucket add apialerts https://github.com/apialerts/scoop-bucket
scoop install apialerts

Linux support is coming in a future release.

What it’s good for

The CLI is designed for the places where pulling in an SDK would be overkill — cron jobs that need a nudge when they finish, CI pipelines that should ping your phone on failure, or quick one-off notifications while debugging.

# Notify on cron completion
0 3 * * * /usr/local/bin/backup.sh && apialerts send --channel ops --message "Nightly backup complete"
# Notify on deploy failure in a shell script
npm run build || apialerts send --channel deploys --message "Build failed on $(hostname)"

See the full CLI documentation for all flags and setup options, or view the source on GitHub.