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On 4/24/2022 at 7:39 AM, dfay said:

Yes, see the first post in this thread.

Given:

//a[contains(@href, "UPPERCASE")][contains(@href, ".pdf")]

the script appears to insert backslash characters (\) on four locations below:

//a[contains\(@href, "uppercase"\)][contains\(@href, ".pdf"\)]

Any way to fix this?

I've set up a simple Hotkey-triggered NSAppleScript that will keystroke the query currently in the clipboard:

on alfred_script(q)
	tell application "System Events"
		keystroke q
	end tell
end alfred_script

My question is, what if I use this to keystroke passwords? Can I do it securely?

Obviously there is a clipboard history that needs to be disabled.

Are there also Alfred logs somewhere that keep the results of the workflow/applescript?

Does it matter if the script uses the "compile" settings or not?

Thanks!

Bump. (Hope that's okay).

Does anyone know if Alfred Remote can initiate workflows on the computer, if it's locked or sleeping?

53 minutes ago, deanishe said:

This should do the trick:

 

set myName to computer name of (system info)

if myName = "MACHINE NAME" then

    tell application "Alfred 3" to search

end if

 

 

Thanks a lot!

Got it to work by assigning hotkey and binding it to a Run NSAppleScript with these contents:

on alfred_script(q)
	set myName to computer name of (system info)
	if myName = "Computer-A" then
    		tell application "Alfred 3" to search
	end if
end alfred_script

4 hours ago, dfay said:

You can use Applescript to write a workflow that behaves differently depending on which computer it's running on.  Basically you'd set your hotkey to call an Applescript like this:

 

set theComp to computer name of (system info)
if theComp = "computer A" then
	// do something
else if theComp = "computer B" then
	return
end if

 

Thanks for that dfay, that should work nicely.

I tried assigning an Alfred Hotkey to SHIFT + ALT + SPACE, and then tried to bind it to Run NSAppleScript and alternatively Run Script, can't get it to work however.

Should this script be functional?

set theComp to computer name of (system info)
if theComp = "Computer-A" then
	tell application "System Events" to keystroke "space" using {option down}
else if theComp = "Computer-B" then
	return
end if

I also tried to prepend/append:

on alfred_script(q)
end alfred_script

… which didn't do anything.

FYI, I got computer name via 

scutil --get ComputerName

Is there some way to exclude a certain workflow from syncing between my two computers running Alfred? I'm using Dropbox to sync Alfred.

The reason is that when I access computer A from computer B via screen sharing, pressing ALT + SPACE will Show Alfred on computer B, and not computer A.

So I've set up an alternative Hotkey to Show Alfred. But now I need to be able to only use it on computer A, and not computer B.

Thanks!

Create a File Action (or File Filter) and connect it to a Run Script Action with Language = /bin/bash and with input as argv (i.e. the defaults).

 

Put this in the Script box:

basename "$1"

 

That will print the, well, basename (the bit after the last /) of the actioned file. Connect that to your Open URL Action and you're good to go.

Perfect – it works. Alfred is such a great tool. Thanks!

Hello everyone! I've started working on an Alfred workflow that's supposed to take a Finder item, and search for its filename on the web (preferably on a specific site using Google).

My thought was to use the File Filter to select the file in Finder, and then use the Action menu to open my workflow.

It should then just be a matter of passing the filename to Open URL along the pattern of: 

https://www.google.com/search?q={query}%20site%3Amyhomepage.com

But how do I get the filename and create a query out of it?

Is there an easy way to do this using Alfred's native tools, or is a Bash/AppleScript/etc solution necessary?

Advanced: What if I want to add some conditional rules, like removal of substrings or extension from the filename? (I'm still happy with just the basic functionality though)…

Thanks!

Are you using option-space as your hotkey for Alfred?  The script is trying to get Evernote to do something by simulating an option-space keypress in System Events.

Keen observation! That solved my problem, thanks.

Funny coincidence that they were using the same key combination, so I changed the one used in Evernote.

Edit: I realized that the thread topic is ambiguous. The problem I'm having is that including a certain AppleScript in my Alfred workflow makes the Alfred bar behave weird, refusing to go away.

I've made a workflow that uses a List Filter to open a set of URLs depending on the argument provided.

I also included an AppleScript that tells Evernote to open a certain notebook/stack. The script is visible as the /usr/bin/osascript in the image below.

When I run the workflow with the AppleScript attached to it, the Alfred Input Window closes but then displays again – with the previous input still there. It behaves very erratically each time, sometimes "blinking" on/off in perpetuity, which seems to be impossible to stop, except by rebooting the computer.

When I run the workflow without the Applescript attached, the Alfred Input Window closes normally.

Something seems to force the Alfred window to remain open. Is it a bug in Alfred, or something with the AppleScript and how it's implemented in the workflow?

Note that I didn't write the AppleScript myself, but it was retrieved from the forum link above. I understand that this isn't the proper forum for AppleScript support – but is Alfred behaving in an unexpected way here?

Thanks for any help!

on run argv
    set destination to "stack:Communications"


    tell application "System Events"
         -- Let's make sure Evernote is running. If Evernote needs to be started, wait a sec!
         if not (exists process "Evernote") then
              tell application "Evernote" to activate
              delay (3)
         end if
         -- Now let's invoke a collection window by starting a global search.
         keystroke space using {option down}
         delay (0.5)
    end tell


    -- Sometimes it needs a moment for a collection window to be created.
    -- As long as no collection window exists, trying to change its query string will result in an error.
    -- We'll simply try again until we succeed.


    repeat
         set tryagain to true
         try
              tell application "Evernote"
                   set query string of window 1 to destination
              end tell
              set tryagain to false
         on error
              tell application "System Events"
                   keystroke space using {option down}
              end tell
              delay (1)
              set tryagain to true
         end try
         if not tryagain then exit repeat
    end repeat
end run

Can Alfred Remote sleep/shutdown a computer, even if it is locked?

(Or indeed perform other actions, even if the computer is locked).

The reason I'm wondering is because OS X has a Wake-on-LAN function that wakes my iMac whenever I open my MacBook, disconnect or connect my iPhone to power. I have my iMac in my bedroom, and it's pretty annoying that the iMac wakes when I plug my phone in for charging over the night.

So if I could make Alfred Remote force the iMac to sleep, without having to get up and type in the password to my iMac, it would be great.

Thanks for supplying the demo! It did what I wanted to achieve.

Hi @deanishe, thanks for your help!

I'm not sure if I'm quite getting how to do this in practice. Also, I'm not sure how to get the echo to work with the whole Terminal Command (it also does other stuff).

I've added some images just to make it more clear what I'm attempting:

Terminal Command:

(The last image is obviously not going to work with the echo, as it stands).

Based on a File Filter, I want to go to two locations with Terminal, within the same Workflow.

Let's say the file filter path result is: ~/my/folder.

1. The first part of the workflow will simply go to cd {query} which navigates to ~/my/folder.
    
2. In the next part of the workflow, I want to keep the last part of the query – "folder" – i.e. the "Display Name" in the File Filter, and interject it in the path ~/my/other/folder.

I guess there might be multiple ways to achieve this, and the way I've been trying to figure out has been to modify the query via string replacements, so that ~/my/ becomes ~/my/other/

I have also tried to understand upstream variables and if it's possible to get the "Display Name" in the File Filter and simply take that variable and paste it into the path ~/my/other/ so that it becomes ~/my/other/{var} i.e. ~/my/other/folder, but I haven't succeeded.

Appreciate any help with this since I've spent almost an hour now with no results!

Okay, I actually solved this myself within a few minutes after posting the question, d'oh.

What you do, is add a Terminal command. And type in cd {query}.

To make it work with path names that have whitespace in them (space bar), mark the checkbox Escaping: Spaces.

I have created a small workflow that uses a File Filter to match the name of a directory (public.folder), and then open it in Finder when pressing Enter.

However, I also want to open Terminal and go to that path (cd ~/my/folder).

Is it possible to somehow paste the query result from the File Filter, into a Terminal Command, in the workflow?

I'm experienced enough when it comes to Q&A sites that I know when it's appropriate to state the raison d'être in the question, and when it's not. It doesn't help the economy of the question to state superfluous information.

In this case, I decided that it wasn't necessary, and I still don't believe it is. The question speaks for itself, and why I want to do it shouldn't really be a concern of yours. I wasn't grasping for a general answer, but really just wanted to know if this was the fastest way for Alfred to bind a keyboard command to a character.

Besides, I'm not that unexperienced when it comes to programming that I would need to hear proverbs instead of answers to my questions. You're pretty presumptuous.

TBH, it's pretty obvious that you're really just projecting an idée fixe of yours about XY problems. Interesting mental preoccupations for you, surely, but not really relevant here, and frankly a waste of time.

Not sure why that would be a XY Problem.

Either way, I've spent more time the last five minutes trying to understand what's wrong with my question, than it took to solve it.

The answer was using another application that did it faster. Thanks anyway.

I set up a very simple Workflow that allows me to print the back slash key "\" by pressing a keyboard combination.

Trigger: Hotkey

-> Copy "\" to clipboard & Automatic paste to front app

However, this is pretty slow (takes about 2-3 seconds).

Am I doing this the wrong way? Or are there actually options out there that can do this a bit faster?

Thanks a lot!

I have set Alfred to open with ALT + SPACE in Alfred Settings.  

I'm wondering if there is a way to set Alfred to open only when using the LEFT ALT + Space combination.

The reason for this is that I regularly use RIGHT ALT to access special keys on the keyboard, and I therefore sometimes accidentally bring up Alfred instead of typing in the current program.

Thanks!