Send Notifications to Mini App Users

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Overview

Farcaster miniapps enable developers to send notifications to users who have added the mini app to their Farcaster client and enabled notifications.

Neynar provides a simple way to:

• manage approved notification tokens, no need to store on developer side
• send notifications in a single API call, no need to batch
• automate handling of notification permission revokes, and mini app “remove” events
• target notifications to specific user cohorts
• send notifications using the dev portal without having to write code
• track notification analytics including open rates

Mini app analytics will automatically populate in the Dev Portal dashboard once you use Neynar for notifications.

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Set up Notifications

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Step 1: Add events webhook URL to Mini App Manifest

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a) Locate the Neynar frame events webhook URL

The Neynar mini app events webhook URL is on the Neynar app page. Navigate to dev.neynar.com/app and then click on the app.

It should be in this format -https://api.neynar.com/f/app/<your_client_id>/event. See the highlighted URL in the image below.

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b) Set this URL in the mini app manifest

Frame servers must provide a JSON manifest file on their domain at the well-known URI. for example https://your-frame-domain.com/.well-known/farcaster.json.

Set the Neynar frame events URL as the webhookUrl to the Frame Config object inside the manifest. Here’s an example manifest

{
  "accountAssociation": {
    "header": "eyJmaWQiOjE5MSwidHlwZSI6ImN1c3RvZHkiLCJrZXkiOiIweDNhNmRkNTY5ZEU4NEM5MTgyOEZjNDJEQ0UyMGY1QjgyN0UwRUY1QzUifQ",
    "payload": "eyJkb21haW4iOiIxYmNlLTczLTcwLTE2OC0yMDUubmdyb2stZnJlZS5hcHAifQ",
    "signature": "MHg1ZDU1MzFiZWQwNGZjYTc5NjllNDIzNmY1OTY0ZGU1NDMwNjE1YTdkOTE3OWNhZjE1YjQ5M2MxYWQyNWUzMTIyM2NkMmViNWQyMjFhZjkxYTYzM2NkNWU3NDczNmQzYmE4NjI4MmFiMTU4Y2JhNGY0ZWRkOTQ3ODlkNmM2OTJlNDFi"
  },
  "frame": {
    "version": "4.2.0",
    "name": "Your Frame Name",
    "iconUrl": "https://your-frame-domain.com/icon.png",
    "splashImageUrl": "https://your-frame-domain.com/splash.png",
    "splashBackgroundColor": "#f7f7f7",
    "homeUrl": "https://your-frame-domain.com",
    "webhookUrl": "https://api.neynar.com/f/app/<your_client_id>/event"
  }
}

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Step 2: Prompt users to add your Mini App

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a) Install @neynar/react

npm install @neynar/react

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b) Set up the MiniAppProvider context provider

Wrap your app with the MiniAppProvider component:

import { MiniAppProvider } from '@neynar/react';

export default function App() {
  return (
    <MiniAppProvider>
      {/* Your app components */}
    </MiniAppProvider>
  );
}

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c) Prompt the user to add your mini app using the useMiniApp hook

import { useMiniApp } from '@neynar/react';

export default function HomePage() {
  const { isSDKLoaded, addMiniApp } = useMiniApp();

  const handleAddMiniApp = async () => {
    if (!isSDKLoaded) return;
    
    const result = await addMiniApp();
    if (result.added && result.notificationDetails) {
      // Mini app was added and notifications were enabled
      console.log('Notification token:', result.notificationDetails.token);
    }
  };

  return (
    <button onClick={handleAddMiniApp}>
      Add Mini App
    </button>
  );
}

The result type is:

export type FrameNotificationDetails = {
  url: string;
  token: string;
};

export type AddFrameResult =
  | {
      added: true;
      notificationDetails?: FrameNotificationDetails;
    }
  | {
      added: false;
      reason: 'invalid_domain_manifest' | 'rejected_by_user';
    };

If added is true and notificationDetails is a valid object, then the client should have called POST to the Neynar frame events webhook URL with the same details.

Neynar will manage all mini app add/remove & notifications enabled/disabled events delivered on this events webhook.

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Alternative: Using the Mini App SDK directly

If you prefer to use the Mini App SDK directly instead of the Neynar React components:

yarn add @farcaster/frame-sdk

Then prompt the user:

import sdk from "@farcaster/frame-sdk";

const result = await sdk.actions.addFrame();

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Step 3: Send a notification to users

Notifications can be broadcast to all your mini app users with notifications enabled or to a limited set of FIDs. Notifications can also be filtered so that only users meeting certain criteria receive the notification.

The target_fids parameter is the starting point for all filtering. Pass an empty array for target_fids to start with the set of all FIDs with notifications enabled for your app, or manually define target_fids to list specific FIDs.

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a) Target specific users with filters via the Neynar dev portal

The Neynar dev portal offers the same functionality as the API for broadcasting notifications. Navigate to your app and click the “Mini App” tab. Once your mini app is configured with your Neynar webhook URL and users have enabled notifications for your mini app, you’ll see a “Broadcast Notification” section with an exandable filters section.

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b) Target specific users with filters via the API

The following example uses the @neynar/nodejs-sdk to send notifications to users and includes a set of filtering criteria.

const targetFids = []; // target all relevant users
const filters = {
  exclude_fids: [420, 69], // do not send to these FIDs
  following_fid: 3, // only send to users following this FID
  minimum_user_score: 0.5, // only send to users with score >= this value
  near_location: { // only send to users near a certain point
    latitude: 34.052235,
    longitude: -118.243683,
    radius: 50000, // distance in meters from the lat/log point (optional, defaults to 50km)
  }
};
const notification = {
  title: "🪐",
  body: "It's time to savor farcaster",
  target_url: "https://your-frame-domain.com/notification-destination",
};

client.publishFrameNotifications({ targetFids, filters, notification }).then((response) => {
  console.log("response:", response);
});

Additional documentation on the API and its body parameters can be found at /reference/publish-frame-notifications

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Step 4: Check analytics

Notification analytics will automatically show in your developer portal once you start using Neynar for frame notifications.

When using the MiniAppProvider context provider, you’ll get additional analytics including notification open rates.

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