TomBenz

Thanks Stephen. I was using "Reveal in Finder". Now destination folder is opening up as I have used {var:newBaseFolder} in Open File action. Selecting moved files at destination would have been ideal but this will be for future

On 10/17/2023 at 3:56 AM, exposition said:

Thank you very much for all of your hard work, @Stephen_C!

@Stephen_C hi Stephen, this is a great workflow to move files to new folder.

I would like to use this as base and see if I can create new workflow that moves selected files to destination (existing or new folder) and then open the new location with moved files selected at this location. Is this feasible? Pls guide

On 6/8/2023 at 9:34 PM, jdb said:

Refactor released here https://github.com/johandebeurs/alfred-mstodo-workflow/releases/tag/0.2.0 and on Packal. Still pending MS graph endpoint refactoring but Py3 refactor is largely done

@jdb Request you to look into this issue @vitor

https://github.com/johandebeurs/alfred-mstodo-workflow/issues

On MacOS Sonoma, I'm getting the following error when trying to setup td worflow. This also happens when running _td-full-reset and _td-reset.

Here's my settings from ENV

 ➜  ~ which -a python3
/opt/homebrew/bin/python3
/usr/bin/python3

21 minutes ago, Stephen_C said:

I'm clearly missing something but, surely, outside Alfred (e.g., in Finder) ⌘P and pressing the spacebar respectively (i.e., no need for Universal Actions)? Inside Alfred (i.e., looking at Alfred's results) see Alfred Preferences → Features → Previews.

 

Stephen

Thanks for your reply. Print command doesn't give option to print only selected text in outlook / safari etc. Got this code and Alfred workflow with universal action to achieve my desired outcome.

tell application "System Events"

keystroke "c" using {command down}

end tell

tell application "TextEdit"

activate

set newDoc to make new document

tell application "System Events" to keystroke "v" using command down

delay 0.2

activate

-- Ask the user if they want to print before closing

set printResponse to display dialog "Do you want to print the document before closing?" buttons {"Print", "Don't Print"} default button "Print"

-- Check the user's response

if button returned of printResponse is "Print" then

print front document without print dialog

end if

set saveResponse to display dialog "Do you want to save the document before closing?" buttons {"Save", "Don't Save"} default button "Don't Save"

-- Check the user's response

if button returned of printResponse is "Save" then

set desktopPath to path to desktop folder as text

set rtfFileName to "temp_text.rtf"

set rtfFilePath to desktopPath & rtfFileName

save front document in file rtfFilePath

end if

-- Close the document without saving it again

close window 1 with saving

end tell

1. Is there a workflow that can be used to manually trigger, list all printer, select and change default printer?

2. Is it possible to go further to set it based on office or home wifi network. Request to share your experience on this or guide. I got below from chatGPT:

Changing the default printer based on your network location (home or office) can be automated on a macOS system using a combination of AppleScript, shell commands, and Location-aware settings. There isn't a direct built-in feature in macOS to automatically switch printers based on network location, but you can achieve this through a somewhat manual setup using network locations in System Preferences and running scripts when these locations change.

Setting Up Network Locations

1. Create Network Locations:
   • Go to Apple Menu > System Preferences > Network.
   • Click the Location drop-down menu at the top and choose Edit Locations.
   • Use the "+" button to add new locations, naming one "Home" and another "Office" or as per your preference.
   • Configure the network settings for each location as needed, such as Wi-Fi network SSID, and then switch between them as you move between your home and office.

Script to Change Default Printer

You can write an AppleScript or shell script to change the default printer. Here's a simple example of how to do it in AppleScript:

Automating the Process

Automating this process involves detecting when your network location changes and then running the appropriate script. This can be more complex, as macOS does not provide a direct way to trigger scripts on network location changes. However, you can use third-party tools or create a custom solution to monitor network changes and trigger the script.

1. Third-Party Automation Tools: Tools like Keyboard Maestro or Hazel can be configured to run scripts based on certain triggers, such as connecting to a specific Wi-Fi network.

2. Custom Solution: Write a daemon or use launchd to periodically check the current Wi-Fi SSID or network location and run the AppleScript to switch the default printer accordingly. This requires a more advanced understanding of macOS scripting and system configuration.

Steps for a Custom Solution

1. Write a script that checks the current network SSID using a shell command like networksetup or by parsing system logs.
2. Use launchd to run this script at regular intervals or upon network changes.
3. The script then determines the location (home or office) based on the SSID and runs the appropriate AppleScript to change the default printer.

Note

This solution requires a bit of setup and possibly learning more about macOS scripting and automation. Depending on your macOS version, some commands or steps might differ, and you may need administrative privileges to change network settings or add launchd tasks.

For more detailed instructions or help with scripting, you might consider looking into macOS scripting communities or forums, as well as the official AppleScript and launchd documentation.

On 4/3/2019 at 3:26 AM, MrAu said:

Hi,

 

This workflow adds a File Action to allow for sending a document to your default printer.

Eg: send a document to printer, print selected files.

 

It takes an Automator workflow

 

and runs it like so

 

    /usr/bin/automator ./print-selected.workflow

 

download here https://github.com/fxjkhr/alfred-workflows/blob/master/print-selected.alfredworkflow

@vitor @Vero Is there a universal action that prints selected content in any application to default printer or open in preview?

On 11/7/2023 at 6:07 PM, chrislemke said:

Dear Alfred Community,

I am writing to share an important update about the ChatFred project.

As the project has grown and evolved, it has been a privilege to work with all of you. Your contributions and feedback have been invaluable, and together, we've built something truly special. However, due to an increasingly demanding schedule, I am no longer able to dedicate the necessary time to maintain ChatFred with the justice it deserves.

The advent of numerous advancements from OpenAI has opened up exciting new possibilities for ChatFred, marking a perfect moment for fresh energy and leadership to take the helm. Therefore, I am in search of someone with the passion and expertise to carry forward this legacy.

If you have a strong interest in the project and believe you have what it takes to lead it into its next chapter, please reach out. Your role would involve steering development, managing the community, and integrating the latest AI technologies to keep ChatFred at the forefront.

I am optimistic about the future of ChatFred under new stewardship and look forward to seeing it continue to thrive. Please direct inquiries and expressions of interest to the contact information listed below.

Thank you for your understanding and continuous support.

Best regards,

Chris

 

BTW: This text was written by ChatFred 😉

Has somebody else taken up further development of ChatFred?

On 10/21/2023 at 1:09 AM, joshuadwagner said:

I just created a workflow that uses Applescript to switch folders in Outlook. @giovanni, If you (or anyone) would like to incorporate it into something else, you're welcome to do so. I'm afraid that this is about the extent of my abilities so I may not be of much help with issues.

https://github.com/joshuawagner/alfred-go-to-Outlook-folder/releases/latest

 

 

This is very good and useful. Thank you for sharing. 

Is it possible to also navigate to Groups or Smart Folders in similar manner?

Are there user that are using both Alfred and Keyboard Maestro? What are things that can be acomplished via KM over and above Alfred. I find Alfred easier to use and maintain especially with Gallery addition in version 5.

Is it worth exploring KM macros? it will be good to get some advice from user that use both and learn few use cases of KM that Alfred can't do easily.

On 9/18/2022 at 10:25 PM, Acidham said:

Should be available in v1.4.

 

Select Search&Add

 

@Acidham is it possible to add a destination folder by navigating to it? I have excluded this location from indexing so search and add don't work. I would like to use universal action to select the source and then navigate to the destination on a non-indexed location on iCloud to add as the destination. 

9 hours ago, TomBenz said:

 

Is it possible to fix this to work on macOS Sonoma? The alternative workflow Open Conference URL is slower atleast on my machine.

as suggested in Open conference url, I have installed icalBuddy. This has improved the performance. for info.

On 9/30/2023 at 7:26 AM, TomBenz said:

Ok, thanks @vitor. Yes, this one works good on macOS Sonoma. 

 

Not pososible to fix the earlier one? 

Is it possible to fix this to work on macOS Sonoma? The alternative workflow Open Conference URL is slower atleast on my machine.

thank you @vitor

I could download .vtt file without downloading video with yt-dlp.

To download only the .vtt subtitle file without downloading the video itself using yt-dlp, you can use the following command:

yt-dlp --write-subs --sub-format "vtt" --skip-download "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N45KtLPcRS8"
 

This command tells yt-dlp to:

• --write-subs: Download subtitles.
• --sub-format "vtt": Specify the subtitle format as .vtt.
• --skip-download: Skip downloading the video itself, only download the specified subtitles.

Replace "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N45KtLPcRS8" with the URL of the YouTube video from which you want to download the subtitles.

1 hour ago, vitor said:

 

yt-dlp should have an option.

 

Download Media already downloads and embeds subtitles in the downloaded file.

Download Media already downloads and embeds subtitles in the downloaded file. -- this works great. It will be great to have an option to download transcripts / captions only without downloading video or audio.

On 1/18/2022 at 3:04 AM, vitor said:

You’re still thinking in terms of Excel. Forget about that. Don’t describe your steps, describe the data you have as input (where you get it from) and what you want to have in the end.

@vitorIs it possible to download Youtube video transcript in vtt or SRT file format? i.e. you tube video transcript download as an added option to YouTube video download? 

@Acidham I love this workflow and use it for backup. Request for some info on it:

1. rsync_log lists files getting added or deleted during the sync process. How are these identified? I sometimes get files that have stayed the same during the incremental backups. It will be good to understand this better

2. Is rsync_log storing the last sync time somewhere or does it create a complete rsync list by comparing source and destination fully? How much time should this step typically take for 50/100 GB of data?

3. I am using rsync to do a backup of OneDrive to iCloud. OneDrive files are not always on disk (even after marking it to download all) so build the list takes a long time. Is it the reason for the long time to generate file list? Is anybody using using OneDrive and facing challenges in keeping all files local?

10 hours ago, sepulchra said:

Thanks @vitor. That is much much cleaner and instructive. I didn't put it on github as I didn't know if it would be of value beyond being an example to the wider community. In essence everytime i start a new project with its own set of folders, I would replicate this and created the specific folder paths etc. Look how much cleaner this looks:

 

I never have used the split argument object and it works as I have configured it, but is this how it "should" be?

Pls share updated version via Github. Many thanks in advance

On 10/12/2023 at 2:46 AM, royaljerry said:

I have updated my project creator workflow with Python 3.x, which creates a folder structure defined in a text file. This post is an update from my 10 years old entry.

 

Prerequisites

• Python 3.x
• Alfred Powerpack

Usage

 

Create an UTF-8 encoded text file – the definition file, select it in Finder (or any file manager app), get Alfred actions panel (with the hotkey set in Preferences → Features → Universal Actions → Selection Hotkey), and run RJ: Create Project. The folder structure will be created where the definition file resides.

 

 

Syntax

• One line represents a folder.
• Lines on the same indention level represent sibling folders.
• A positive indention to the previous line represents a subfolder.
• A negative indention to the previous line represents a parent folder.
• Indentions must be written with TAB characters.
• The script will replace the %date% string in the definition file with the actual date.

 

Example 1

 

Contents of the definition file:

 

root-folder-1
root-folder-2
	sub-folder-1
	sub-folder-2
	sub-folder-3
		sub-sub-folder-1
		sub-sub-folder-2
	sub-folder-4
root-folder-3

 

Example 2

 

Contents of the definition file:

 

root-folder-1
root-%date%-folder-2
	sub-folder-1
	sub-folder-2
		sub-sub-%date%-folder-1
		sub-sub-folder-2
	%date%
root-folder-3

 

Downloads

 

RJ: Create Project

 

GitHub

 

Project GitHub Page

 

Very nice and simple. 

https://github.com/zeitlings/alfred-workflows/releases/tag/v1.1.1-ocr

In OCR Light, please consider adding universal file action to process OCR image file and copy the content to clipboard. This is similar to one done for PDF.

On 9/30/2023 at 8:34 PM, zeitlings said:

 

You pass the variables on to a script, for example, like so:

./scripts/highlight.py "$loc" "$1" "$docx"

 

Btw., I found that the example you posted is quite flawed. Only the last sentence of a paragraph that contains a keyphrase will be highlighted as with each loop, the entire work that is done previously gets erased. With this fixed, each sentence containing a keyword is highlighted; the downside then is that you are likely to encounter large chunks of highlighted text. At this point the script forfeits it's usefulness as the desired result is a document with highlighted key sentences. One approach would be to drastically lower the keyword count... or to process really large docx-files. To find out which sentences are really important would require more NLP though.

 

Anyway, I went down the rabbit hole for you: Alfred-Workflow.

 

You will want to play with "highlight.py" a bit. There are three methods you can test:

- highlight_keywords to highlight all the keywords.
- highlight_sentences to highlight all sentences containing a keyword.
- highlight_original to highlight in the flawed fashion described above.

 

Sure made for an interesting Saturday... 😅

 

 

Many many thanks @zeitlings for your inputs and time on this. I will experiment with highlight.py and revert in few days.

15 hours ago, zeitlings said:

Hey @TomBenz, that sounds like a job for a different workflow and somewhat niche.

If you want to adapt the workflow to do that, I'd start with passing (a) the text file location $loc and (b) the keywords, i.e. the query as $1 for zsh argv to a “Run Script” object that runs your python script.

 

The script should look something like this (not at all tested):

 

import os.path
import sys
from docx import Document
from docx.enum.text import WD_COLOR_INDEX
from nltk.tokenize import sent_tokenize

filename = sys.argv[1]
keywords = sys.argv[2]

search_words = keywords.splitlines()
matches = []
sentences = sent_tokenize(text)
for word in search_words:
   for sentence in sentences:
       if word in sentence:
           matches.append(sentence)

doc = Document(filename)

for para in doc.paragraphs:
    for items in matches:
        start = para.text.find(items)
        if start > -1:
            pre = para.text[:start]
            post= para.text[start+len(items):]
            para.text = pre
            para.add_run(items)
            para.runs[1].font.highlight_color = WD_COLOR_INDEX.YELLOW
            para.add_run(post)

# Save the output in new doc file at selected file location
root, extension = os.path.splitext(filename)
output_filename = root + "_KeySent_Highlights_C1" + extension
doc.save(output_filename)
sys.stdout.write(output_filename) # e.g. to reveal the file with Alfred

 

@zeitlings thanks for your help.  

I'd start with passing (a) the text file location $loc and (b) the keywords, i.e. the query as $1 for zsh argv

-- how to do this exactly? Is it possible to post a seperate workflow for it. 

I have tried but no clear how I can pass $loc and keywords from earlier workflow into my Python code. I get two errors:

1. line 8, in <module>
    keywords = sys.argv[2]
IndexError: list index out of range

2. Upon hardcoding keywords for testing, I get the error

I get line 12, in <module>
    sentences = sent_tokenize(text)
NameError: name 'text' is not defined 

I have only basic understanding of Python so trying to learn and make this work. Thanks in advance for your help.

7 hours ago, vitor said:

@TomBenz Use the workflow by @caleb531: Open Conference URL.

Ok, thanks @vitor. Yes, this one works good on macOS Sonoma. 

Not pososible to fix the earlier one? 

One of my favorite work is this Video conference. This works good on macOS Ventura but running into calendar access issue on macOS Sonoma. @vitor @deanishe and others -- request for review and resolution of this. 

19:21:07 workflow.py:2080 ERROR    No Access to Calendars
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows/user.workflow.F2AE98BD-B8F2-45B9-AA0E-FFBC6BEBB921/workflow/workflow.py", line 2073, in run
    func(self)
  File "./video-conferences.py", line 240, in main
    raise RuntimeError(data['error'])
RuntimeError: No Access to Calendars
19:21:07 workflow.py:2103 DEBUG    ---------- finished in 0.014s ----------
[19:21:07.683] Video Conferences[Script Filter] {
  "items": [
    {
      "valid": false,
      "subtitle": "No Access to Calendars",
      "icon": {
        "path": "/System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources/AlertStopIcon.icns"
      },
      "title": "Error in workflow 'Video Conferences'"
    }
  ]
}

@zeitlings request to consider and add an option to extract key sentences (sentences where key phrases are located). It will be great if the docx file key sentences are not only extracted but also highlighted in yellow i.e extract and highlight key sentences option. 

See the code below for sample code in Python. You can add such an option or guide how to incorporate this. 

# Code to highlight keysentences using keyphrases extracted from nlp
# import required library
# install textract, rake libraries
import nltk
import textract
from rake_nltk import Rake
from tkinter import filedialog as fd
from docx import Document
from docx.enum.text import WD_COLOR_INDEX
import tkinter as tk
import os.path

#nltk.download('stopwords')
#nltk.download('punkt')

filename = fd.askopenfilename()
text = textract.process(filename).decode("utf-8")
rake_nltk_var = Rake(min_length=2, max_length=4, include_repeated_phrases=False, stopwords={'yet', 'would', 'words', 'wise', 'whether', 'wherein', 'went', 'you', 'what', 'usage', 'ultimately', 'to', 'there', 'then', 'that', 'still', 'site', 'when', 'we', 'wants', 'vertical', 'vary', 'try', 'through', 'this', 'so', 'something', 'see', 'shift', 'will', 'said', 'require', 'say', 'or', 'now', 'no', 'much', 'move', 'me', 'part', 'post', 'require', 'related', 's', 'value', 're', 'of', 'it', 'is', 'instead', 'initially', 'let', 'in', 'if', 'i', 'only', 'pick', 'yours', 'within', 'which', 'used', 'use', 'tried', 'those', 'the', 'taken', 'take', 'shows', 'however', 'similar', 'types', 'how', 'work', 'with', 'where', 'way', 'wanted', 'uses', 'us', 'towards', 'typical', 'show', 'same', 'requires', 'remember', 'referred', 'read', 'question', 'volume', 'volumes', 'one', 'two', 'thing', 'things', 'some', 'overview', 'over', 'other', 'various', 'them', 'on', 'off', 'of'}) # min_length and max_length to control words size in phrases and include_repeated_phrases to keep or remove repeated phrases based on true and false

rake_nltk_var.extract_keywords_from_text(text)

keyphrases_extracted = rake_nltk_var.get_ranked_phrases()[:50]  # to increase or decrease the no. of key_phrases to be selected, change value in [ ]
print("Key_Phrases: ")
print(keyphrases_extracted)
print("\n")
print("No. of Keyphrases extracted are:", str(len(keyphrases_extracted)))

from nltk.tokenize import sent_tokenize

search_words = keyphrases_extracted
matches = []
sentances = sent_tokenize(text)
for word in search_words:
   for sentance in sentances:
       if word in sentance:
           matches.append(sentance)
print("Extracted key sentences: ")
print(matches)
print("\n")
print("No. of Key sentences extracted are: ", str(len(matches)))

doc = Document(filename)

for para in doc.paragraphs:
    for items in matches:
        start = para.text.find(items)
        if start > -1:
            pre = para.text[:start]
            post= para.text[start+len(items):]
            para.text = pre
            para.add_run(items)
            para.runs[1].font.highlight_color = WD_COLOR_INDEX.YELLOW
            para.add_run(post)

    # Save the output in new doc file at selected file location
    root, extension = os.path.splitext(filename)
    output_filename = root + "_KeySent_Highlights_C1" + extension
    doc.save(output_filename)

@giovanni This workflow works very good for outlook search. many thanks. I just wanted to check if it can be enhanced to create new email with selected content in any application / website i.e universal action to create new email in outlook with HTML / RTF format.