Mark all notifications as read ("Ghost notification" remover)

github-unghost.sh

#!/bin/sh
# Mark all notifications as read, including "ghost" notifications.
# Works on Linux, requires a "classic" auth token be present in `~/.github-oauthtoken`
# and also that `gh` is installed. You could presumably use `gh auth login` instead
# if you want to authenticate that way.
# 
# Works for me, use at your own risk.
#
# https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/6874
# https://docs.github.com/en/rest/activity/notifications?apiVersion=2022-11-28#mark-notifications-as-read
GH_TOKEN="`cat $HOME/.github-oauthtoken`" gh api \
  --method PUT \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \
  -H "X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2022-11-28" \
  /notifications \
  -f last_read_at="`date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ`" \
  -F read=true

Nice, thanks for posting! :)

The following worked for me (without setting GH_TOKEN):

gh api \
  --method PUT \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \
  -H "X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2022-11-28" \
  /notifications \
  -f last_read_at="`date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ`" \
  -F read=true

Excellent! Don't know why I thought permissions were necessary.

It’s a good solution, but if you only want to remove the ghost notifications (and not all notifications), I recommend using:

gh extension install emmanuel-ferdman/gh-gonest
gh gonest

See this original post https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/6874#discussioncomment-14491447

Yeah gh-gonest looks better offhand.

thanks worked great!