Unread notifications

[willin]

Inbox shows 1, but not found.

[linuxlawson]

Its just a glitch, nothing to worry about. To get rid of it, mark all your notifications as Read.

[willin]

no use...

[linuxlawson]

They all have to be marked 'Read' even the ones that are marked as 'Done'.

[airtower-luna]

I recently had that issue, too, it's a known bug. You can mark the ghost notification as read using the notifications API, you need a token with notifications scope to authorize the request.

I used the Python script below, which lists unread notifications before marking them as read and generally has some more output because I'm curious. It expects the token in the GH_TOKEN environment variable. 😸

import json
import os
import requests
from datetime import datetime, timezone

NOTIFICATIONS = 'https://api.github.com/notifications'

token = os.environ['GH_TOKEN']
s = requests.Session()
s.headers.update({
    'Authorization': f'Bearer {token}',
    'Accept': 'application/vnd.github+json'})

r = s.get(NOTIFICATIONS)
print(json.dumps(r.json(), indent=2))

now = datetime.now(timezone.utc)
print(now.isoformat(timespec='seconds'))

r = s.put(
    NOTIFICATIONS,
    json={
        'last_read_at': now.isoformat(timespec='seconds'),
        'read': True
    })
print(r.status_code)
for k, v in r.headers.items():
    print(f'{k}: {v}')
print(r.text)

[jleverenz]

Thanks for sharing the script! For me, looks like it cleared out the "stuck" notification from the Unread list, but it still shows up as "not done" in some parts of the UI. A smaller issue, but fyi for others. e.g. https://github.com/notifications?query=-is%3Adone still shows 1-0 of 1 with nothing in the list.

And marking a notification done isn't supported by the API yet, it seems: #15669

[airtower-luna]

That was the same for me, and a known issue according to the person who responded to my bug report. 😅 For me the notification reappeared (as read) after a couple hours and I could mark it as done then, not sure how common that is.

[javasgl]

The world is finally clear！

[KubaJastrz]

Thanks, it worked

[willin]

[Algomorph]

Sorry for extra notifications in thread, but this is just such a funny bug.