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Power Thesaurus Search for Alfred
Search for synonyms and antonyms on Power Thesaurus from Alfred 4.

 
Installation
Get Power Thesaurus for Alfred from GitHub or Packal.
 
Usage
Primary commands:
pows <word> — Search Power Thesaurus for synonyms of <word>. powa <word> — Search Power Thesaurus for antonyms of <word>. For both primary commands:
↩ or ⌘+NUM — Copy highlighted entry to the clipboard ⌘+L — Show full query in Alfred's Large Text window  
Results
Resulting synonyms or antonyms will be sequentially listed according to user rating.
 
Troubleshooting
SSL Errors
If you're having SSL issues, try temporarily disabling it by setting the workflow environment variable ALFRED_PT_SSL_VERIFICATION to False. This will bypass SSL verification as a workaround while waiting for the SSL certificate to be rectified. You can check Power Thesaurus's SSL certificate status here. Be sure to set it back to True when all's green.
Other Errors
For other errors, please open an issue describing how you got the error and together with the logs from Alfred > Workflows > Debugging Mode if possible. There's no proper error handling in place yet, so we'll have to troubleshoot things this way for now.
 
Licensing and Acknowledgement
This workflow is released under the MIT Licence.
It is heavily based on deanishe's Alfred-Workflow, also MIT-licensed.
By using this workflow, you acknowledge, understand and signify your agreement to Power Thesaurus Website's terms and conditions, and privacy statement.
 

Thanks for reporting the error and sorry about that, did a silly mistake in the code introduced in the previous version. This small update should fix it.

I just installed this and got the following error. Help is appreciated. Thanks in advace.

Instead of making it a Workflow Environmental Variable that the user needs to toggle, why not catch the exception (that’s presumably thrown), then disable SSL verification and retry? That way the user doesn’t have to do anything and you’re still getting the best behaviour.

Yes. I downloaded the previous version with verification still turned on. I'm also on Catalina 10.15.5.
 
Can you open Keychain Access, check the "Certificates" category and see if you have this certificate:

Not having that would explain why it doesn't work for some users.
 
 
The right thing to do is to contact Powerthesaurus and tell them that they're sending an expired certificate. You could also try bundling the above CA cert with requests until Powerthesaurus fix their servers.
 
 
Chrome is probably using its own bundled copy of the USERTrust CA certificate to verify the certificate chain.
 
 
It is, but by turning off certificate verification, you aren't only ignoring this error. You've more or less disabled SSL.
 
It's not a big deal with this workflow: there are no sensitive data being passed around. But in general, turning off certificate verification is not something you should do.
 
Seeing as only some users are having the issue, it would be a better idea to make disabling certificate verification a workflow option that users can turn on only if they need it. That way, machines that can connect securely to the API will continue to do so.
 

You're a star. Really appreciate the prompt fix.

Thanks for this update! Works like a charm again. 😃 

Yep, I'm getting this issue as well. Something to do with verification failure of Power Thesaurus' SSL certificates. Will shortly release a hotfix for this. If this persists, please open an issue here.
 
Edit: I've released the fix for this which can be downloaded from here. Will update the packal page with this update later.

Yep, I'm getting this issue as well. Something to do with verification failure of Power Thesaurus' SSL certificates. Will shortly release a hotfix for this. If this persists, please open an issue here.
 
Edit: I've released the fix for this which can be downloaded from here. Will update the packal page with this update later.

Yep, I'm getting this issue as well. Something to do with verification failure of Power Thesaurus' SSL certificates. Will shortly release a hotfix for this. If this persists, please open an issue here.
 
Edit: I've released the fix for this which can be downloaded from here. Will update the packal page with this update later.

Yep, I'm getting this issue as well. Something to do with verification failure of Power Thesaurus' SSL certificates. Will shortly release a hotfix for this. If this persists, please open an issue here.
 
Edit: I've released the fix for this which can be downloaded from here. Will update the packal page with this update later.

Thank you. As a writer, this is one of my most used workflows!

Power Thesaurus Search for Alfred
Search for synonyms and antonyms on Power Thesaurus from Alfred 4.

 
Installation
Get Power Thesaurus for Alfred from GitHub or Packal.
 
Usage
Primary commands:
pows <word> — Search Power Thesaurus for synonyms of <word>. powa <word> — Search Power Thesaurus for antonyms of <word>. For both primary commands:
↩ or ⌘+NUM — Copy highlighted entry to the clipboard ⌘+L — Show full query in Alfred's Large Text window  
Results
Resulting synonyms or antonyms will be sequentially listed according to user rating.
 
Troubleshooting
SSL Errors
If you're having SSL issues, try temporarily disabling it by setting the workflow environment variable ALFRED_PT_SSL_VERIFICATION to False. This will bypass SSL verification as a workaround while waiting for the SSL certificate to be rectified. You can check Power Thesaurus's SSL certificate status here. Be sure to set it back to True when all's green.
Other Errors
For other errors, please open an issue describing how you got the error and together with the logs from Alfred > Workflows > Debugging Mode if possible. There's no proper error handling in place yet, so we'll have to troubleshoot things this way for now.
 
Licensing and Acknowledgement
This workflow is released under the MIT Licence.
It is heavily based on deanishe's Alfred-Workflow, also MIT-licensed.
By using this workflow, you acknowledge, understand and signify your agreement to Power Thesaurus Website's terms and conditions, and privacy statement.
 

I've updated the workflow to fix the errors. Please try again with this new version.

I've updated the workflow to fix the errors. Please try again with this new version.

The moment you save this Workflow from Alfred 3, it’s no longer compatible with Alfred 2.

You’re using an old version of Alfred-Workflow. Versions bellow a certain threshold are blocked from running in Alfred.

Power Thesaurus Search for Alfred
Search for synonyms and antonyms on Power Thesaurus from Alfred 4.

 
Installation
Get Power Thesaurus for Alfred from GitHub or Packal.
 
Usage
Primary commands:
pows <word> — Search Power Thesaurus for synonyms of <word>. powa <word> — Search Power Thesaurus for antonyms of <word>. For both primary commands:
↩ or ⌘+NUM — Copy highlighted entry to the clipboard ⌘+L — Show full query in Alfred's Large Text window  
Results
Resulting synonyms or antonyms will be sequentially listed according to user rating.
 
Troubleshooting
SSL Errors
If you're having SSL issues, try temporarily disabling it by setting the workflow environment variable ALFRED_PT_SSL_VERIFICATION to False. This will bypass SSL verification as a workaround while waiting for the SSL certificate to be rectified. You can check Power Thesaurus's SSL certificate status here. Be sure to set it back to True when all's green.
Other Errors
For other errors, please open an issue describing how you got the error and together with the logs from Alfred > Workflows > Debugging Mode if possible. There's no proper error handling in place yet, so we'll have to troubleshoot things this way for now.
 
Licensing and Acknowledgement
This workflow is released under the MIT Licence.
It is heavily based on deanishe's Alfred-Workflow, also MIT-licensed.
By using this workflow, you acknowledge, understand and signify your agreement to Power Thesaurus Website's terms and conditions, and privacy statement.