nikivi

I'm guessing you don't realise that what Raycast is doing is about 10% of what you're actually requesting.
 
OAuth is very complex to implement. Dealing with your own application's various keys and secrets and scopes is one thing. Building something that can handle arbitrary application IDs and scopes is a whole different ballgame.

@nikivi the metadata tool is no longer used, it was superseded by the built-in file troubleshooting within Alfred's help preferences.
 
The metadata tool itself has no intrinsic link to Alfred, it's a completely independent app, and I suspect just the act of opening the file is causing macOS to update the last used metadata flag, which is fixing the single metadata record in your broken index.
 
You might find that creating a script to touch, open, or mdls each of those files will have exactly the same effect.

@nikivi Alfred is given the type to add by macOS, he doesn't make it up himself. Whatever type is given to Alfred by macOS is added to that File Types: field, so if your metadata is broken, and macOS is giving Alfred nothing, or something bogus, Alfred has no way of determining that this is correct or incorrect.

[Original reply from when this was posted as a Bug Report]
 
@nikivi If you've been messing with your metadata and it's gone from working to not working, without any changes in Alfred, there is unlikely to be a bug in Alfred.
 
For due-diligence, I have taken the time to create a workflow to reproduce the bug you've reported, and everything is working as expected in macOS 11.0.1. Contacts are indeed parsed correctly.

I want to exclude one app Tweetbot so that when I search for it in Alfred, nothing is returned.
 
The reason I want to do it is that I work in Focus sessions similar to Pomodoro where I block all distracting things for 1 and half hour and focus on what I need to do. Only issue is that I sometimes do want to post a tweet and thus use Tweetbot's create tweet action.
 
I activate Tweetbot app with Keyboard Maestro macro that will not open Tweetbot when I am in the focus session because I create a file at start of Focus session and erase it in the end. The macro looks like this if anyone is interested: 

 
However I still can access Tweetbot quickly from Alfred and I want to block that.
 
Is there a way to blacklist an app from Alfred search?
 

@nikivi as it's extremely unusual for people to want to downgrade, and we always encourage people to use the latest version, we don't have any info for older versions on our website. Unlike many products, if a actual issue was found in the latest build, I'd turn a fix and release within minutes of this, which makes older builds irrelevant.

Your issue you mention here was a macOS issue, and reinstalling older, and upgrading again coincidentally fixed your issue.
https://www.alfredforum.com/topic/16210-422-update-broke-external-triggers/
 
Is there an actual reason you need to downgrade, if so, let me know and I'll address it in the latest build.

This won't have anything to do with the External Triggers, and currently is only internally being used for the URL handing from Alfred's Contacts Viewer (e.g. tel:). It will eventually replace all URL handling within Alfred though.

Which is almost certainly a macOS issue, not an Alfred one. Try logging out and back in or rebooting.

I told you before when you opened an issue about it on GitHub. I don't have a problem with signing the binaries, I have a problem with paying Apple €99 to be able to do so.
 
Apart from objecting in principle to paying Apple to be able to release open-source software for their platform, I don't have a credit card I could pay it with, anyway.
 
If it were possible to sign the binaries with a free certificate (which I've had for years), I would have signed them all long ago.
 
EDIT: Going by the screenshot you posted, signing binaries with a free cert shows an "unknown developer" warning. So I guess that's what I'll have to do.
 
But I’m still not sure about what else I’d need to do to get a Go workflow running on ARM. Do I have to prefix every command with arch -x86_64 or will it automatically run the Go binary with Rosetta?

Hey! I forgot to chime in when I saw this originally - very impressive! Richer content natively within Alfred is something which has always been on the plan for the future, but this really does provide a solid stepping stone.
 
It wouldn't be a huge amount of effort to post a distributed notification for the quicklookurl, but due to a whole host of reasons (of which you outline some above), I wouldn't make Alfred post this by default.
 
Having said that, for fun, I wouldn't be adverse to make it a defaults write on Alfred's prefs just to see this working better, and see where you take it
 
Cheers,
Andrew

Scripts were excluded because Apple couldn't figure out how to reliably sign text files. I doubt that has changed.
 
 
Almost certainly excluding tax (the norm for US prices). All it says for me is "I will be billed on an annual basis for €99. Taxes may apply."
 
 
There's already an M2?
 
 
That's completely untenable. Some users may be able to compile workflows for themselves, but it's too complex for the large majority.
 

I’ve combined your two posts. Once again I must ask you don’t serial post in the same thread, it makes things hard to follow.
 
More importantly, rather than a random thread which already got corrections, it would be better to link to someone who has been discussing signing and notarisation for quite a while, paid attention when this was officially announced by Apple, and covered it in detail: https://eclecticlight.co/2020/08/22/apple-silicon-macs-will-require-signed-code/
 
 
This still sucks, but presumably (from my limited understanding) it means your things won’t break on day one and you can continue to build things for yourself (at a bigger inconvenience).

It remains unclear if scripts are affected. If they’re not, Alfred Workflows will continue to be viable to share, depending on what the situation is regarding the interpreters.

I understand that does complicate things for you and the time you’ve invested in Go, though. I also have things I’d like to sign and notarise, but $100/year (is that before or after tax, even? USAmericans are weird in that regard), while not breaking the bank, is hard to justify when I’d be paying to give away work.
 
 
You have never needed to pay Apple to sign things. Unless you want those signed tools to be valid to anyone you share them without scary warnings, in which case you have always needed to pay. Nothing changed in that regard. The issue here is that not signing now has a bigger cost.

@nikivi I'm currently using Big Sur 11.0.1 Release Candidate 20B5022a and what you describe is working as expected.
 
I notice your screenshot has the contacts icon to the right had side, this suggests you're using a workflow? If your workflow is using a File Filter for Contacts this likely won't work as your Spotlight index looks very broken.
 
Have you tried searching for contacts in Alfred's default results?
 
NOTE: For searching in the default results, ensure you have the following settings in Alfred for Big Sur:
Contact searching ENABLED in default results in Alfred's Features > Default Results. "Use Spotlight metadata for searching contacts" DISABLED in Alfred's Features > Contacts, as per your screenshot above. Other than this, if your Spotlight is broken as much as you show, it might be worth reinstalling Big Sur.
 
Cheers,
Andrew

Not a question but just wanted to say that the recent new update to Alfred Forum is very awesome. I like how warm it looks. 😻

Not a question but just wanted to say that the recent new update to Alfred Forum is very awesome. I like how warm it looks. 😻

@nikivi Ensuring you're using Alfred 4.1.1, go to Alfred's preferences > Help > Troubleshooting and run the File Search Troubleshooting, dragging in some of the files you are expecting to see in your File Filter.
 
This will give you more information on whether the metadata for these files is complete, and if their file type matches what you've included in your File Filter.
 
Cheers,
Vero

@nikivi if you copy the selected text, then open Alfred's clipboard manager, you can use cmd+s on the selected clipboard entry, and this will open Alfred's preferences and pre-fill a snippet for you to save.

This is possible with a more advanced workflow. It would take a initial setup. But once setup should pretty straight forward. Created a POC. If you would like to see it and modify it please let me know.
 
https://streamable.com/vxekr6
 
 

Running av exposes the harsh reality of how many apps I have on my system. It takes legit 20 seconds to get some results back. 
 
Thanks for sharing it though.

Have you tried https://github.com/nikitavoloboev/alfred-web-searches

I will try to push an update for support of truly custom searches. But the idea behind the workflow is that is that it searches over a list of searches defined here (https://github.com/nikitavoloboev/alfred-web-searches/blob/master/workflow/websites.csv)
 
As example, here is a line in the csv file
`
Pinboard,https://pinboard.in/search/?query={query}&all=Search+All `  
Then you search for Pinboard in workflow
 

 
And on return you start typing query, that query will be what will be placed in {query} exactly the same as what alfred allows.
 

 
I use it all the time but didn't get to making it more user friendly to other contributions in case you don't want to use any of the 500 searches defined that come with workflow I want to allow users to have custom lists.
 
Also now that I am typing this out, Alfred allows you to create keywords for each of the queries (forces you too actually). Would be nice to solve this use case too perhaps. 

The only way I see how to solve it is to generate Alfred objects in similar way that https://github.com/deanishe/alfred-searchio does. Don't see any other way.
 
But if you do want to have many custom searches with unique keyword, workflow will get big (many objects generated) and thus slow to use.
 
Actually never mind all that, I have a solution that doesn't require object generation. Create hotkey blocks that send a keyword like `PInboard` and the workflow will know what to do with it. Will try to solve this and let you know @chris as I believe it should solve the issue you have nicely. Alfred web searches are way too limiting and require too much friction in creating a new search. Web Searches allows creating a new search by opening a file (have it bound to km macro) and adding one line.  
 

No it wouldn't. Getting results for a single autosuggest endpoint is trivial.

Then don’t make a mess. There are twelve unnecessary posts—all yours—on the first page of this thread (and they are the reason there’s a second page). You post too much too often and it seems to be getting worse. You make new posts like other people make paragraphs.
 
That’s annoying for other users because we get an absurd amount of avoidable pings and your question is all over the place. You’re making more work for us to help you, which is unreasonable and works against you.
 
Pause before you submit a reply. Make sure everything is in there. If you need to add something to a thread but the last post is yours and it was made in the previous two hours, edit it instead.
 
 
Which is compounded by posting to a forum like if it were a chat.
 
It’s not that you (@nikivi) can’t figure out the answer, but that you don’t think about the question before asking.
Not enough. Don’t ask unless you’re able to describe what you’ve tried and how it didn’t work. Many answers will come to you during this process and you won’t even need to post (rubber ducking is real; use it). If you haven’t tried anything, you haven’t thought about the problem.

Slow down. You’re trying to go faster than you can manage, which is why you always crash and get stuck. Go slower and you’ll reach farther.

Either as one of the options here

 
Or in UI

 

Dropped out. CS and education didn't go well. Was depressed for a bit due to it. Also got fired from a job 4 times because I can't program well enough. Doesn't phase me though, I still want to learn. ✨
 
* the 4th time was because of corona virus and https://rekki.com (app for chef and suppliers) doesn't like corona.

I do both, small workflows in one mono repo (https://github.com/nikitavoloboev/small-workflows) updated with OneUpdater. Workflows with more code are updated with deanishe library https://github.com/deanishe/awgo which is the go version of his python library (and shared either in small workflows or as a separate repo).
 
I like this structure as there is too much friction I feel in sharing a small workflow by creating a new github repo every time.
 
One other thing that's useful to know is how to symlink workflows.