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Thank you Shawn. I very much appreciate your guidance. I'll give it a go. — Robert

The latter. I'd like to avoid having buttons for every player. I'd like to type "Ortiz" and have that convert to "ortizda01" or type "Vic" (or whatever abbreviation makes sense in my head) and have that convert to "victosh01." -- Robert

First, thank you for Alfred Remote. Brilliant new app that really has to be used to be appreciated. I'm trying to construct a URL that I can launch with just a touch from the Remote. Easy enough, but the URL involves converting something typed at the keyboard into a coded reference that's then embedded into the URL. I'll simplify it to just he basics on the hopes that someone here can steer me in the right direction. I want to be able to find the data for a specific baseball player easily. The web page to access David Ortiz' statistics, for example, is: http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/o/ortizda01.shtml That last underlined part is the unique part of the URL. I can easily embed that into the URL in Alfred with: http://www.baseball-reference.com/pl/player_search.cgi?search={query} The trouble is, I don't want to have to remember the unique "ortizda01" code to get to Ortiz' page. I'd rather be able to use something friendlier, like "Ortiz." and have that looked up and converted to "ortizda01". Naturally, I'd like to create a whole table of these so that I can access other players just as easily, converting say, "Victorino" into "victosh01", etc. I suspect there's a bit of coding involved here and I don't mind rolling up my sleeves, but I'd appreciate if I could get a high-level overview of the approach that seems best for this kind of thing. Thanks so much in advance. -- Robert

BRILL-I-ANT! You've taught me to fish, here. I am really grateful. Works like a champ. Thank you! -- Robert

I would love to know how to build it myself, thanks! -- Robert

All -- I'm in search of a workflow that addresses a common use case for me. The situation is simple. I'm browsing the web and want to send a page I find to someone via email. What I'd like is to open a new Mail.app email window with a copy of the URL in the body of the message. Sounds so simple that I'm embarrassed I don't know how to build it myself yet. Thanks in advance for your help. -- Robert

Stellar! Thank you so much for the quick reply!

Switching over from Launchbar, and before that, Google's free search bar utility. In both cases I invoked the tool by double-tapping on the command button. It's sort of muscle memory for me right now. Is there a way I can invoke Alfred with a double tap of the command button? Thanks in advance for your assistance. -- Robert