Collect number of notifications for my user

[Niklas]

Hi there, I want to write a small script that shows me the number of unread notifications for my user. Is there an API to collect the notifications or the number of new notifications via the API for my own user?

I've looked at the internal requests, and found an access to the notification-log.

https://start.atlassian.com/gateway/api/notification-log/api/3/notifications?category=direct&limit=16

However, I was not able to access it via my access token. 

curl -D- \
-u <myuser>:<mytoken> \
-X GET \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
"https://start.atlassian.com/gateway/api/notification-log/api/3/notifications?category=direct&limit=16"

Is there any way to make this work?