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@GuiB

Thanks for the simple example! One thing is that I want to open the search in a new window, instead of a new tab. That's why I started to use applescript in the first place. Is there a way to improve your example so that it does that?

@deanishe

Thanks, I appreciate your help!

The purpose is to make sure my workflow opens a new window, both when the app is running and not running. If I execute

tell application "Google Chrome"
        activate
        open location "https://www.youtube.com"
        end tell

when the app is not running, (running it for the first time after reboot), it then activates a  new window on the homepage, and another window on Youtube. That's why I decided to put 

that do shell line. But after your help, I changed my script around, and here's my result : \

on alfred_script(q)
    if q is equal to "" then
        if application "Google Chrome" is running then
        tell application "Google Chrome"
        activate
        make new window
        open location "https://www.youtube.com"
        end tell
        else
        tell application "Google Chrome" to open location "https://youtube.com"
        end if
    else
        if application "Google Chrome" is running then
        tell application "Google Chrome"
        make new window
        open location "https://www.youtube.com/search?q=" & q
        end tell
        else
        tell application "Google Chrome" to open location "https://youtube.com" & q
        end if
    end if
end alfred_script

I think I'm almost done here, the only problem is 

1. if used q quoted form of q, then youtube searches for the actual quoted form of what I've typed in. So if I search apple, it searches for 'apple'

2. if i don't use quoted form of q, then I can't search for multiple words!

Oh, and I have no idea where to upload my workflow, I did save it as a file.

I really feel like I'm bugging you guys out with something not important at all, I really appreciate your help thanks

Hi guys, I recently bought Alfred and trying to make a workflow of my taste, but I'm having a real hard time. I'm new to programming in general, but I'm trying my best so any help would be appreciated!

Here's my Goal: I want to create a workflow that is triggered by a key word, with optional arguments, so that when there are no argument, a specific (not the default) browser to open a specific (not the homepage) URL, in a new window regardless the web browser app is running or not. When provided with an argument, I want to search for the argument. So for example, if I type "yy" , then Chrome opens Youtube in a new window, and if I type "yy alfred" then Chrome does a search on alfred on Youtube.

The first issue I ran into was that when apps are not running in the background and are activated, if I activate the app and give it an URL, I get 2 new windows. I looked it up and I did fix it (I think).

The real problem is that I cannot find how to retrieve? import? the argument as {query} and search for the argument. I've tried what the default web search does on alfred, but no luck at all. Here's my script

on alfred_script(q)
    if q is equal to "" then
        if application "Google Chrome" is running then
        run script "tell application \"Google Chrome\"
        activate
        open location \"https://www.youtube.com\"
        end tell"
        else
        set theApp to quoted form of "Google Chrome"
        do shell script "open -n -a " &theApp & " 'https://www.youtube.com'"
        end if
    else
        set query to q
        if application "Google Chrome" is running then
        run script "tell application \"Google Chrome\"
        activate
        open location \"https://www.youtube.com/search?q={query}\"
        end tell"
        else
        set theApp to quoted form of "Google Chrome"
        do shell script "open -n -a " &theApp & " 'https://youtube.com/search?q={query}'"
        end if
    end if
end alfred_script

I'd love some hints on how I can make my workflow work! Thanks