Need Help: Website search with 2 arguments

[Sssascha]

Hi folks,

i need your help with a pretty easy workflow i think but i don't get it.

 

I want to search the website dejure.de. If you search for example like for paragraph 433 BGB (german law) the url looks like this: 

http://dejure.org/gesetze/BGB/433'>http://dejure.org/gesetze/BGB/433

I now want to use 2 arguments to search for like 433 BGB so the url in the Alfred workflow would look like 

http://dejure.org/gesetze/"argument 2"/"argument 1"

 but i dont know how to write the script to do that. Unfortunately i have no experience with scripting at all.

 

I would appreciate any help with that.

Edited August 13, 2013 by Sssascha

[jdfwarrior]

This could be done but not so much with a custom search unless you put the full thing in the custom search. For instance, you could just make a custom search with the url "http://dejure.org/gesetze/{query}" and, using your example, just pass "BGB/433" as the parameter

 

The other way would require using a simple script to read the input and build the url. Wouldn't be hard. How would you prefer to do it?

[Sssascha]

The first version with using BGB/433 as query is what i use for now, but i would be "nicer" when i could write 433 BGB like it is natively written. so i would prefer a simple script. i would write it myself if i had a tutorial.

[jdfwarrior]

The first version with using BGB/433 as query is what i use for now, but i would be "nicer" when i could write 433 BGB like it is natively written. so i would prefer a simple script. i would write it myself if i had a tutorial.

 

If you wanted to do it as a simple shell script you could...

query="{query}"

 

arg1=$(echo $query | cut -d " " -f 1)

arg2=$(echo $query | cut -d " " -f 2)

 

url="http://dejure.org/gesetze/$arg2/$arg1"

 

open "$url"

That would save whatever you input to the workflow as a variable named query and then create two variables that are the first and second word of the input string saved in $query. Then build the new url variable with the values in their correct place and open that url. This script would be done using a Run Script item. Don't forget to untick the option to Escape Spaces.

[Sssascha]

thank you!

 

it just works great.

[hakin]

I am trying to do the same thing in Alfred 3 the above workflow didnt work for me. How do i input 2 seperate numbers and trigger this script when I press Enter?

[deanishe]

The above still works in Alfred 3. You're doing something else wrong (possibly you need to change the input to input as {query}).

 

Please post your non-working workflow, so we can see what isn't working and perhaps tell you why.

 

[Cheiron]

I would like to second this request. 

I am also trying to build a workflow for the same website, but I have no idea how. 

It would be great if someone could help me with it. 

 

Thank you very much in advance!

Cheiron

Edited January 6, 2017 by Cheiron