Hatmaker: Workflows Installer & Updater

[bpinto]

Hatmaker for Alfred - Alfred V2 Workflow

https://github.com/bpinto/hatmaker

 

 

Install & update alfred workflows straight from Alfred. Currently only alfredworkflow.com workflows are supported.

 

 

 

Download the workflow

Download the workflow below and open in Alfred.

 

 

 

Features

Currently only supports installing and updating. The rest will be added soon.

 

Install a workflow
install [workflow name]

 

List outdated workflows
outdated

 

Update a workflow
outdated > Select the outdated workflow

 

Open workflow homepage

Hold option key when installing or listing outdated workflows.

 

Credits

Everyone at this community.

Edited April 24, 2013 by bpinto

[lmartins]

Really useful, thanks for sharing.

[parekh]

Sorry if this question sounds stupid, but how do you know when a workflow is outdated?

[Ddyracer]

Sorry if this question sounds stupid, but how do you know when a workflow is outdated?

You don't, unless you follow the forums or manually check using the outdated keyword for this particular workflow.

[bpinto]

Sorry if this question sounds stupid, but how do you know when a workflow is outdated?

 

Technically, once a workflow is installed using hatmaker, its version is recorded and then this version is used to check if there's a newer version of this workflow released on alfredworkflow.com

 

Soon, I will add support for some already installed workflows!

[Ddyracer]

Technically, once a workflow is installed using hatmaker, its version is recorded and then this version is used to check if there's a newer version of this workflow released on alfredworkflow.com

 

Soon, I will add support for some already installed workflows!

Outside of alfredworkflow.com?

[bpinto]

Outside of alfredworkflow.com?

Do you know more websites like this? Where people share their workflows? If so, I would like to integrate with them!

 

IMHO, alfredworkflow.com is the best solution to share your workflows at the moment and giving full support for workflows that are available on it is my main goal. I'll also add some limited support for alleyoop's update.json on the next update.

[Ddyracer]

Do you know more websites like this? Where people share their workflows? If so, I would like to integrate with them!

 

IMHO, alfredworkflow.com is the best solution to share your workflows at the moment and giving full support for workflows that are available on it is my main goal. I'll also add some limited support for alleyoop's update.json on the next update.

 

 

No, i meant some of the workflows here that aren't on alfredworkflow, will you be supporting them?

[bpinto]

No, i meant some of the workflows here that aren't on alfredworkflow, will you be supporting them?

I do plan to support them, but it's not among my top priority at the moment.

[bpinto]

Released a new version – 1.1.

 

If you have hatmaker installed already, wait for alfredworkflow.com site to be updated and it will be updatable through outdated command. If you don't, what are you waiting for?

 

Release Notes:

- Fixes a bug while installing some workflows that had double quotes on its description.

- Handling download errors (404).

 

Next features:

- Use workflow uid to determine whether two workflows are the same instead of using its names. This will require a server to be released online and thus, all the filter logic can be done on the server side for a faster feedback.

- Cache json responses and use proper caching mechanisms such as etags.

- Provide support for workflows not released on alfredworkflow.com but that are updatable through alleyoops update.json file.

[mklement0]

Great workflow and surrounding ecosystem - I hope it catches on.

 

Unfortunately, v1.1 is broken for me - see https://github.com/bpinto/hatmaker/issues/6

 

Also, I see that your own workflow is present both as the current (1.1) and the previous (1.0)  version - both on http://www.alfredworkflow.com/ and when using `install hatmaker` in Alfred.

 

Is that intentional, or should the old version just be removed?

If intentional, then `install hatmaker` should display the version numbers so the entries can be distinguished.

[erist]

Does this update workflows directly (thus a security issue) or does it use Alfred's native processes to pull in the workflows and check for maliciousness?

[bpinto]

@mklement0

That's wrong, thanks for warning. At this moment, we will only support the latest version so it should only be showing one hatmaker.

 

@erist

I haven't heard about any check that alfred does for maliciousness. However, if it does, than this workflow will also do as this is how it works:

1. Downloads the workflow to a temporary folder.

2. Ask the system (osx) to open the downloaded file.

3. OSX will recognize the downloaded file extension and tell Alfred to open it (as if you had double clicked the file).

 

Resuming, this workflow is doing exactly what you would do, but on an automated process. 

[bpinto]

Version 1.3 released!

 

Release Notes:

 

- When installing or checking the outdated workflows, if you hold option key and press enter, you will be redirected to the workflow homepage instead.

- Fixes:

  - Handling broken workflows that would cause hatmaker to crash.

  - Fix on hatmakers paths.

 

 

Special thanks to mannerisms, mkelement0, enhorn for their help and ideas.

[javatseng]

It works perfect. Thanks.