Replace space by dashes when opening search in URL

[Edouardg]

Hello there,

 

I am totally new to Alfredapp and far from understanding programmation languages. I just want to be able to perform quick search on a website. For that I already created a custom web search but I still have to put dashes between words to make it work. Here is some more info:

 

If I want to look for "Villa Yoga", my URL must look like this: https://www.villa-bali.com/en/villa/seminyak/villa-yoga

 

So in the custom search I wrote https://www.villa-bali.com/en/villa/seminyak/{query}

 

Unfortunately, that means I have to write exactly "Villa-Yoga", not really the best.

 

Do you think I can create some kind of script to replace the spaces by dashes before the URL is being opened?

 

Thank you for your help,

Best regards,

[Andrew]

Hello there,

 

Do you think I can create some kind of script to replace the spaces by dashes before the URL is being opened?

 

Thank you for your help,

Best regards,

 

Hi there,

 

I've popped together a simple workflow which will do this for you...

 

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6749767/Alfred/Workflows/URL%20with%20Dashes.alfredworkflow

 

Download and double click to install into Alfred, then use the keyword 'villa' in Alfred e.g.

 

villa villa yoga

 

A little about how this workflow works...

 

There is a keyword input which is set to 'villa' connected to a php script containing the following:

// replace spaces with -
$query = str_replace(' ', '-', "{query}");

// setup the URL to open
$command = "open 'https://www.villa-bali.com/en/villa/seminyak/$query'";

// open the URL
shell_exec($command);

This takes {query} and replaces spaces with -, then constructs the command to open that URL in OS X, then runs the command.

 

Hope this helps!

 

Cheers,

Andrew

[Edouardg]

Hi Andrew, thank you very much! That's exactly what I needed!