Re: Please help me keep url-retrieve from spamming my *Messages* buffer.

Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> From: Jason Martens <[email protected]>
> Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2026 01:35:05 -0400
> 
> So, I have this script which fetchs JSON data at 30 second intervals using url-retrieve, and I keep receiving the
> message 'Contacting host: www.radiofrance.fr:443' in the minibuffer at every poll. It happens _just_ often
> enough to be distracting.
> 
> I tried to silence it by setting SILENT in url-retrieve and tryint to rebind `url-lazy-message' with cl-letf, but she no
> work.  This happens in both 30.2 and 31.0.90.  31 is a few weeks, old, though.
> 
> Is there a supported way to suppress the connection messages?  I'd like to allow error messages to still go
> through, but beggars can't be choosers.

Did you try setting url-show-status to nil?

If everything else fails, try binding inhibit-message to t around the
code which fetches JSON.
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