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I was calling you a distributed version control system.

Your rapier wit is no match for my entire lack thereof!

I think alfred_filter.py is meant to symbolise any Script Filter script. A lot of us write Script Filters as command-line scripts and run them from Alfred via bash: /usr/bin/python alfred_filter.py "{query}"

The keywords and corresponding icons with a template for adding the demo output. Stephen's ZotQuery has over 20 keywords. I can't see him entering them all by hand, plus example items. Basically, try to make it as easy as possible to create a demo because the alternative—creating an animated GIF—is pretty darn simple.

Git.

Good idea. Being able to create a skeleton configuration file from info.plist would save a lot of mindless typing.

Good thinking, Batman. I've changed my links to point to the authors' Packal pages.

That's a marvellous idea! Not going to consider using it, like, until it works on Safari and Firefox, but I'll be keeping an eye on it.

It can be tricky finding workflows on the forum, so I thought it'd be a good idea to have a list of those true gems you just can't live without to help other users get themselves some great new workflows. So let's hear about those four or five workflows that make a Mac feel broken when they're missing! Workflow authors: no pimping your own wares; if they're that good, someone else will mention them Here are mine: Dash by Bogdan Popescu. Search programming documentation with the Dash app. Couldn't code without it. So, so good. ssh by Robin Breathe (isometry). Open ssh connections without grubbing around in Terminal. MarkdownBulletin by Vítor. Convert Markdown to BBcode. Markdown rocks, BBcode sucks. Wrote this post (and all the others) with it. Chrome Bookmarks by Marat Dreizen. No more clicking around in Chrome's GUI, or trying to tell your bookmarks from your history in the URL bar. Application Chooser by Gabe Weatherhead. Search applications by tag. Don't use it often, but it's a true lifesaver when you can't remember the name of that app you rarely use but really, really need right now. As long as you remembered to tag it (which you will after the third time grubbing through /Applications looking for the darn app). Let's hear yours.

Same here. I love this workflow so much. Use it all the time, and it's soooo good.

90% laziness, tbh. I thought it was something for academic types to manage their citations. Didn't know much more than that.

Cool. What's Zotero?

Truth be told, I actually have no idea what it does Can it manage my Ebook collection?

IIRC, that was mostly just a dumb mistake by me. That one, at least, is fixed in the newer code.

If you use pint in a workflow, it's a good idea to remove the call to git in __init__.py. If a user doesn't have git installed, OS X will ask them to install Xcode, which is confusing.

Web stuff is a bit of a chore in AppleScript. It'd be a lot easier with something like Ruby or Python. PHP can do it, too, but PHP's HTTP libraries are much lower level, and therefore more complicated, than Ruby's or Python's (but also more powerful). My own Python library makes sending POST requests a doddle, and there are some great libraries available for many languages. If you need to handle logging in, sessions/cookies, navigating pages and the like, you can use something like requests or mechanize (both Python libraries). For parsing HTML, BeautifulSoup is your friend.

With regard to non-default fonts, Alfred could do what CSS does and allow you to specify a list of fonts, and fall back to a built-in font if none of the specified ones are found.

It's a nice idea, but how could it be implemented? The way Alfred runs workflows means the interface is essentially text-only and language agnostic. To pass native objects, Alfred would have to embed the Python, Ruby, PHP and bash interpreters in the application (like Sublime Text or Vim). You can do that with Python and Ruby, but I don't think PHP/bash are embeddable. Any more complex types than "text" would have to be passed in a text format, like JSON, YAML or XML.

It should be fixed now.

Updated to fix a problem with git/Xcode. You will no longer be prompted to install Xcode if git is not installed on your system.

Do you mean this workflow? If so, could you post in that thread? This one is for different software. To actually answer your question, yes, I've figured out what the problem is. I'll post an update in the appropriate thread once I've fixed it (maybe an hour).

Update: Added 5 new search engines: Amazon eBay Google Images Google Maps YouTube

I've just made a workflow that supports quite a few auto-suggest search engines. It's written in such a way that you can (relatively) easily add new ones. A bit of coding is necessary, though. The problem I had was finding search engines that support the auto-suggest interface. If you know of any, please let me know. I'd love to add a few more.

Added support to Alfred-Workflow. Currently only used internally to save parsing info.plist, but I'm sure someone will think of other uses.

I was getting confused again. I meant OPT+ESC, which is the system default completion key.