Subject22

Thanks! I've updated the repo and the first post.

On 7/31/2019 at 9:04 PM, Chris Spiegl said:

Hi @Subject22, I sent you a private message with the new version. Please test it and update your main download if everything works out normally. I don't want to provide a secondary download here because it can get way too confusing by doing so, having the current version be represented in the main forum post is best I think.

Thanks! Unfortunately I took too long to get to it and the file transfer expired. Instead I’ve put the workflow on GitHub (and added a link to the first post). Please feel free to fork the repo and/or submit a pull request. I will endeavour to keep the first post in this thread in sync with the GitHub repo.

On 5/9/2019 at 1:46 PM, gandalfsaxe said:

Np I'll wait

Hey, finally got around to this. Obviously feel free to fork and/or submit a pull request. I will also endeavour to keep the first post in sync with the GitHub repo.

https://github.com/AndrewC-B/alfred-open-in-chrome

Can do. Yes, that would be handy. Thanks!

Not at all. Just gotta find time to do it  I’ve put it on my todo list, but probably won’t get to it until next weekend at the earliest. Please free to do so yourself (but if you do I’d appreciate it if you linked to this thread from the readme).

@gandalfsaxe Almost certainly. But I haven’t looked at this in ages, and have moved most of my work to iOS, sorry! If I have time over the weekend I might take a look. But it shouldn’t be hard to change, with some reference to AppleScript docs.

That's one old typo. Fixed, thanks!

I see the same issue on iOS 9 beta 5. Just for reference. Looking forward to having Remote back in action, whenever that may be

I removed the drives from Alfred's search scope in settings and use a workflow to search them explicitly when needed.

Awesome! Cheers Shawn.

No worries! I'll check out your updated version

I made a similar workflow a while back and managed to bolt together a script filter which lets Alfred tell you if hidden files are currently visible or if they're hidden. This may or may not be useful to you

#!/bin/sh

#check the current value and display the result as subtitle
CURVALUE=$(defaults read com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles -bool)

if [ $CURVALUE = 0 ]; then
	subtitle="Hidden files are currently invisible"
else
	subtitle="Hidden files are currently visible"
fi

echo '<?xml version="1.0"?><items>'
echo "<item arg=\"{query}\" uid=\"ssid\" valid=\"yes\">"
echo "<title>Toggle hidden files</title>"
echo "<subtitle>$subtitle</subtitle>"
echo "<icon>icon.png</icon></item></items>"
echo "</items>"

[Crazy magic]

Yeah, that's bizarre, and awesome. I'm quite happy with that workaround, thanks! I wonder if there's a way to view the output from the Applescript compiler. There could conceivably be some informative message in there.

Are you able to try it on your machine, to confirm that I'm not crazy? >_<

Yep, I know Thanks for that. I may end up having to use a workaround in the end.

Yes, there is. There's some additional logic in the script I took that snippet from. I pause iTunes, play a sound file, and then resume iTunes, but only if it was playing to start with. That's why I need to control playback within the script (I need to know if iTunes was playing to start with before I tell it to start playing again).

There are some fairly nasty workarounds that I can think of, but what I really want to know is why the script can't control iTunes when called from the shell. It's very irritating!

Cheers for the reply

This isn't directly related to Alfred, but I need to call an Applescript in one of my workflows (I can't run it directly from the workflow because reasons) and for some reason it's not working. Here's the relevant snippet.

if application "iTunes" is running then
	tell application "iTunes"
		set state to (get player state as string)
		if state is "playing" then pause
	end tell
end if

When I run that from Script Editor everything works just fine (iTunes pauses if it was playing, if it was running). But if I save that as a script and run it from Bash with osascript my_script.scpt nothing happens. No error message, nothing. iTunes keeps on playing.

Anyone have any wisdom they can impart?

It probably is, but I won't be doing it, sorry.

The script is bundled with the workflow. You can find it by viewing the workflow in Alfred, double clicking it in th sidebar and clicking "show in finder".

Let me know if you have any trouble

Me too . For anyone who has the same problem, I found a more permanent solution than switching networks.

In Alfred Preferences go to the Advanced tab and tick "Use OS X http proxy settings for scripts". Then head over to System Preferences>Network select the relevant network in the sidebar and then go to Advanced>Proxies. Enable "Web Proxy (HTTP)" and enter your proxy settings (if they don't appear automatically). Hit OK and apply your new network settings. You may or may not need to restart Alfred to get everything working.

Yep, I can open that site in Safari. No problems.

EDIT: Ah. Got it. There's a proxy server for the network I was on. I switched to a different one and everything worked fine.

I just gave this workflow a shot and see <urlopen error [Errno 61] Connection refused> in Alfred. I don't have time to poke around at the moment, but I wonder if it could be an API key issue? Or perhaps there are some restrictions on my network that I don't know about. I haven't had trouble with other workflows though. Anyhoo, I thought I'd let you know in case it's something obvious

Cheers!

EDIT: Here's the dump from Alfred's script debugger.

[ERROR: alfred.workflow.input.scriptfilter] Code 1: 14:29:55 workflow.py:1972 DEBUG    Workflow version : 2.1.0
14:29:55 workflow.py:1990 ERROR    <urlopen error [Errno 61] Connection refused>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/curtisan/Dropbox/Stuff/Alfred Preferences/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows/user.workflow.32CEBDB1-9C78-47F5-A3FA-1121F372809C/workflow/workflow.py", line 1983, in run
    func(self)
  File "media.py", line 48, in main
    configuration = wf.cached_data('tmdbconfig', wrapper, max_age=604800)
  File "/Users/curtisan/Dropbox/Stuff/Alfred Preferences/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows/user.workflow.32CEBDB1-9C78-47F5-A3FA-1121F372809C/workflow/workflow.py", line 1616, in cached_data
    data = data_func()
  File "media.py", line 46, in wrapper
    return get_tmdb_configuration(api_key)
  File "media.py", line 80, in get_tmdb_configuration
    return web.get(url, params).json()
  File "/Users/curtisan/Dropbox/Stuff/Alfred Preferences/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows/user.workflow.32CEBDB1-9C78-47F5-A3FA-1121F372809C/workflow/web.py", line 540, in get
    auth=auth, timeout=timeout, allow_redirects=allow_redirects)
  File "/Users/curtisan/Dropbox/Stuff/Alfred Preferences/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows/user.workflow.32CEBDB1-9C78-47F5-A3FA-1121F372809C/workflow/web.py", line 528, in request
    return Response(req)
  File "/Users/curtisan/Dropbox/Stuff/Alfred Preferences/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows/user.workflow.32CEBDB1-9C78-47F5-A3FA-1121F372809C/workflow/web.py", line 211, in __init__
    self.raw = urllib2.urlopen(request)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 127, in urlopen
    return _opener.open(url, data, timeout)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 404, in open
    response = self._open(req, data)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 422, in _open
    '_open', req)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 382, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1214, in http_open
    return self.do_open(httplib.HTTPConnection, req)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1184, in do_open
    raise URLError(err)
URLError: <urlopen error [Errno 61] Connection refused>
14:29:55 workflow.py:2008 DEBUG    Workflow finished in 0.061 seconds.

There's no way to get Alfred to call the search and show the returned suggestions in its fallback results.

That's what I was wondering. Ah well. Cheers!

Hey Andrew, on a related note I feel that the contextual menu for Run Workflow Trigger in the Remote section of Alfred Preferences could get quite cluttered. By the time I have 50 workflows all offering remote triggers things are going to get quite out of hand! Before I updated to 2.6 I was kind of expecting some sort of drag and drop interface.

Just some random ramblings

Since it's possible to configure colours for remote pages you could also apply this colour to the tabs.

I found this out the hard way and had to reboot.

Another good trick for this is to throw in a try block.

I'd like to use this as a toggle. i.e.: There'd just be one trigger (keyboard shortcut, keyword, remote etc.) and activating it would toggle Caffeine on (indefinitely) or off. What would be the best way to do this?