sirris

Thanks both. This worked great, after I copied the .mjs and node_modules folder into the Workflow folder. I could have also referenced an external file location just as easily, i.e., ~/Scripts/covert-epoch.mjs.

Thanks @giovanni! I'm at a loss at how to do this, and still trigger my script with a hotkey:

6 hours ago, deanishe said:

 

As a rule, the solution Vítor suggested (altering PATH) is a much better one. Adjusting the local environment to a script is preferable to hardcoding a script to a specific environment.

Thanks, makes sense. Any advice on how to do so? I can't seem to add a PATH statement to my .mjs script (it's in JavaScript). I'm attempting to following this instruction: Method 3: Set PATH before calling your tools. 

I attempted putting it before the #! line-- it didn't work. Nor did creating a bash shell script (with the PATH statement) to run prior to my .mjs script.

@vitor, thank you! That makes perfect sense. For anyone else following, here's the line I added at top of my .mjs external script file:

#!/opt/homebrew/bin/node /opt/homebrew/bin/zx

For those less familiar, use 'which node' and 'which zx' at the terminal to discover the appropriate path for your binaries.

Thanks much @vitor! Using External Script.

Here's what I get with two attempts:

#!/usr/bin/env zx
console.log('Testing 123');

Gives error:

[19:30:10.675] Logging Started...
[19:30:12.617] ScrScriptipt[Hotkey] Processing complete
[19:30:12.619] Script[Hotkey] Passing output '' to Run Script
[19:30:12.632] ERROR: Script[Run Script] env: zx: No such file or directory
[19:30:12.633] Script[Run Script] Processing complete
[19:30:12.633] Script[Run Script] Passing output '' to Post Notification

...

#!/opt/homebrew/bin/zx
console.log('Testing 123');

Gives nothing:

[19:33:06.696] Script[Hotkey] Processing complete
[19:33:06.701] Script[Hotkey] Passing output '' to Run Script

Both paths resolve at shell to zx. And I can run the script in terminal with: "./script.mjs". I use zsh as my default shell.

Google released an excellent new shell-scripting tool called zx that allows you to write shell scripts in JavaScript/JS with a bunch of helpful modules: https://github.com/google/zx -- i.e. things like Fetch built in.

I've been unsuccessful at getting a zx script (.mjs) to work as an external script in an Alfred workflow. I've chmod +x, ensured paths are correct, and it still won't execute.

I've even tried using a bash script to initiate the zx script:

#!/bin/sh

/opt/homebrew/bin/zx /Users/username/myscript.mjs

Any advice? I'd love to be able to use this versatile new tool with Alfred!