mmroczka

Hey Alfred friends!

I'm spinning my wheels on a workflow trying to accomplish something that seems like it should be straightforward, but is giving me a headache.

The high-level idea was that I wanted to recreate an alias I have in the commandline. The alias is:

alias howto="cat ~/.aliases ~/.functions ~/.commands | grep $1"

The aliases, functions, and commands files are basically just files that have commands I'd like to use frequently or aliases that I have and want to reference quickly. It works great for when I forget how to do a thing on the commandline in git – as an example, let's say amend a commit message – and I can just type "howto amend" and it'll spit out every instance of "amend" referenced in any of the above files. This would be far more useful if I could access it from alfred though so I can store non-commandline specific things and don't always have to have a terminal around.

The problem I'm facing is figuring out how to display the grep results properly in Alfred. I don't want a notification I want a list of results that I can scan, then ideally press "Enter" on one of them to get a copy of the key (but that's a later issue).  Surely someone has already done something like this? From what I've seen it looks like the best thing to do would be to pass the results of the grep to a JavaScript file and then read in the query in JavaScript, parse it, and return the answer in JSON to that Alfred can understand it. I can't really find a good example of someone doing this with dynamic data though, only the static one referenced here.

Any help or general guidance would be appreciated!

-Mike

Alfred Wifi Speedtest

Alfred Wifi Speedtest is a workflow for Alfred 4, that uses speedtest-cli and reports back in a notification the upload/download speeds of the current wifi you're on.

Why?

Since COVID hit, my wifi speeds have plummeted (Verizon cap/bottleneck maybe?). I hate needing to google for a wifi speedtest every time I have to check if my wifi speed will be good enough for the call I'm about to join. I have to open another tab, ads clutter my screen while running the speedtest, and it's one more thing cluttering my screen. This workflow makes a wifi speedtest just an alfred keyword away.

Important

You will always find the latest version, changelog and updated documentation on GitHub as is difficult to use the forum to keep track of updates and support. 

Download

Download directly from Github releases page, make sure to download the latest release. Download here.

Installation Instructions

After downloading the workflow from the release page, be sure to install the wifi speedtest-cli using the command below

brew install speedtest-cli

Then, simply run the Alfred workflow by summoning Alfred and typing speedtest.

This is my first real contribution to any sort of open source community so suggestions are welcome! I thought about adding automatic updates, but figured something is better than nothing to start and I can iterate on this if people have suggestions/feature requests. Thanks in advance for any suggestions to improve this workflow!

No error, that's the strange part. The screencapture command just doesn't work. It captures the background instead of the current window. I documented it here:

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/374158/why-is-screencapture-taking-the-screenshot-of-the-desktop-image-and-not-the-wind

I get the strangest behavior on Catalina. I'd run the workflow and it'd give me no errors, but it'd also give an empty notification saying it was "done" but their wouldn't be anything in my clipboard. It turns out that the screenshot command sort of isn't working on Catalina. It'll run and take a screenshot, but whenever you take a screenshot of something on the computer, it'll actually take a screenshot of your desktop BEHIND the window you're trying to capture. 🤯 Does anyone even know where to begin debugging this? It seems like their is something wrong with the `screenshot` method itself, but isn't that a core library component?

So is this the explanation on why this gem has stopped running? It uses a bash script under the hood.

https://github.com/nicooprat/alfred-ocr

How do we get something like this working again?  I used this daily and now it's broken. 😕 

It seems like the token is valid and works. Does no one else use this workflow? It seems like it'd be pretty helpful to more than just me...

I know this is a super old thread and I'm not sure if this has been addressed or not recently, but I went through the whole process of getting an API key and put into the workflow the User ID and token, but if never asks for a password. It also doesn't work when I try querying something. I don't know PHP at all. Can anyone help?

I'm also searching for this feature. I have 3 monitors and they are in a row from left to right. I sometimes write something on my notebook and then look up and try to activate alfred and I think my keyboard shortcut isn't working because it's just on the screen in the opposite that I'm looking.