Yes, agreed, thank you for note:
The original intent was to link to that thread, since this was the first hit in google, and I had a solution
I have recently written an applescript to send boxcar notifications. It would be accessed via a Terminal command:
osascript /path/to/script boxcar_username "Title of Notification" "Body of Notification" "URL/to/54x54icon"
This in turn maps to:
on run {BoxcarUSER, boxcartitle, boxcarmessage, BoxcarICONURL}
The BoxcarUSER variable is the only required one, the rest will use defaults.
If you have your own provider, you can open the script in script editor and change the property at the top of the script(I currently have it setuo with a provider I created, so feel free to change that)
Other defaults could be changed within the set {
in the run{}
handler.
Some of the error catching is rough, as if you do not have an internet connection, cURL will fail with a non zero status (I think, no real expert there) so the script can't catch the error message.
Some ideas I have thought about.
Since you can map the icon that shows in boxcar, you could use different 57x57 icons to show the user different things that are happening. So maybe you could push out a red icon for stop, green for go, etc.
If someone could design a better icon, that would be great =p