Choco: add notification about available updates

[CWempe]

It would be nice if chocolatey could notify the user about new available updates ("outdated packages").

The user could create a scheduled task (dayly, weekly, ..) that executes something like this.
choco outdated -notification

Chocolatey could then create a notification in the action center (Win10) or send a mail to the user.
Clicking the notofication could even execute the "upgrade all" command or the GUI.

[ferventcoder]

Thanks for creating that!

[Zalastax]

In the meanwhile you can schedule this script via the Task Scheduler:

$ErrorActionPreference = "Stop"
Import-Module -Name BurntToast

$outdated = (choco outdated | Select-Object -Skip 4 | Select-Object -SkipLast 2 | Select-String '^([^|]+)|.*$').Matches | ForEach-Object {$_.Value}
$pretty = ($outdated -join ', ')

If ($outdated.count -gt 0) {
    New-BurntToastNotification -Text "Outdated chocolatey packages", "$pretty"
}

[davidjirovec]

Thanks for the script, but I've noticed that Chocolatey sometimes appends ad to the output of outdated command

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which breaks the notification text. If anybody is interested I've prepared fixed version here https://github.com/davidjirovec/outdated-choco/blob/master/outdated-choco.ps1

[ferventcoder]

Add -r to the end of choco outdated and it should not have those extra messages from time to time. We've made sure with this in 0.10.8 or vNext.

[davidjirovec]

Ok, I did not know this, thanks :)