Prepending text to clipboard url and opening in chrome

[ericohlsen]

I am trying to create a workflow to send either the URL of the current page or the url on my clipboard to Chrome with "cache" prepended onto it. I've seen several workflows to open the current page in Chrome, and I created a snippet to form the final url (cache:http://....), but, when I've tried to add cache: to the URL field in several options, it just opens a blank Chrome window.

 

Any help would be much appreciated!

[jdfwarrior]

I am trying to create a workflow to send either the URL of the current page or the url on my clipboard to Chrome with "cache" prepended onto it. I've seen several workflows to open the current page in Chrome, and I created a snippet to form the final url (cache:http://....), but, when I've tried to add cache: to the URL field in several options, it just opens a blank Chrome window.

 

Any help would be much appreciated!

 

Could you potentially share the workflow that you've created so that we could take a look at it and see where you might be going wrong with it?

[ericohlsen]

Sure, David. I couldn't figure out what to do with the snippet once I created it, so it just exists. Both of these workflows just open a blank Chrome window. The first thing I tried was:

 

Hotkey

Action: Pass through to workflow

Argument: OS X Clipboard contents

Prefix: cache:

 

leading to:

 

Open URL

URL: {query}

Browser: Chrome

 

The second thing I tried was

 

Keyword

Keyword: cache (with space) (argument required)

 

leading to:

 

Open URL

URL: cache:{query}

Browser: Chrome

 

 

Thanks!

[jdfwarrior]

 

Sure, David. I couldn't figure out what to do with the snippet once I created it, so it just exists. Both of these workflows just open a blank Chrome window. The first thing I tried was:

 

Hotkey

Action: Pass through to workflow

Argument: OS X Clipboard contents

Prefix: cache:

 

leading to:

 

Open URL

URL: {query}

Browser: Chrome

 

The second thing I tried was

 

Keyword

Keyword: cache (with space) (argument required)

 

leading to:

 

Open URL

URL: cache:{query}

Browser: Chrome

 

 

Thanks!

 

 

Is the result you are looking for the same as navigating to this?

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://digg.com

 

It opens a cached version of the site passed in the q variable. If so, then you could just create a custom search for alfred that adds the url into the url above and would work.

[ericohlsen]

Bingo! Thank you!