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Now a reality, thanks to Max Jacobson (via Brett Terpstra)

There is this. I love it.

Not really the same, although a nice workflow. Your linked workflow extracts app icons from existing apps in your Applications folder. Brett's scripts searches the iTunes Store via their Search API and extracts the app icon. This could be for any (iOS) app, not just the ones on your drive.

I would absolutely LOVE if someone could make this in a Alfred workflow, with the ability to automatically apply the included mask. Somebody up for it?

Instantly grab a high-res icon for any iOS app

As a blogger who writes about a lot of apps, I frequently need to grab artwork for iOS apps. iTunes and its web previews don’t make this an easy task, especially for high-res versions. To assist in this process, I wrote a quick script to allow me to search for an iOS app by name and instantly write its 1024px version (or the highest resolution available) to the current directory in Terminal.

I'm afraid that since it's just a script filter, there's no way I can see to do it without adding three more separate scripts or supporting two versions at once, neither of which is hugely appealing. I've been trying to get it to behave like this since the beginning, so I'm more inclined to stick with this version. If the search works the way it's supposed to, I imagine that most people will want to go straight to purchasing an item; if it doesn't, opening a web browser is way more memory-hogging than iTunes or the App Store.

Aw man :-( Is there a way to download the older version which still had the old functionality? Or where is this functionality in the python script so I can modify myself? (and set the script to r/o to prevent future updates).

I would absolutely *hate* it if results open in MAS or iTunes directly :-( I prefer the web view above all, because iTunes and MAS are slow and processor and memory hungry.

If this is going to be implemented, then please with an additional key modifier (like Shift to open in iTunes/MAS)

Any chance you could incorporate an additional key input modifier to open the web page instead of directly in iTunes. I really preferred the initial (older) method and don't want to change scripts

Great workflow.

 

Just one thing though, is there an easy way to change the currency and App Store used (for me this would be from US - GB)?

Or Netherlands/Euro for me :-) All possible options are in the dropdown in the footer on Appshopper.com.

Great work! There are a few things that would make it perfect for me though:

• Is there a way to open results directly in iTunes app for 'iph' and directly in MAS for 'app'

I would absolutely *hate* it if results open in MAS or iTunes directly :-( I prefer the web view above all, because iTunes and MAS are slow and processor and memory hungry.

If this is going to be implemented, then please with an additional key modifier (like Shift to open in iTunes/MAS)

I assure you that we are fully aware of the desire for more flexibility when it comes to chaining items together.

Does this also mean calling a workflow from within another workflow? I was just looking for this to call the 'Shorten links' workflow instead of completely add the same functionality in my own workflow.

+1 for this idea.

Sure. But because I see this as sort of a fringe case and because I don't want to muddy the workflow with a user-visible settings interface, the setup is going to be a little complex. You'll have to run a search once to create the file ~/Library/Application Support/Alfred 2/Workflow Data/com.danielsh.alfred.its/settings.json. That file should contain an empty JSON object. You just need to add the key--value pair "affiliate_string": "&partnerID=2003&tduid=NL1380330" and your affiliate information will be added to the links that the workflow generates. Other users can of course do this as well, with their own affiliate strings.

Thanks! This works beautifully!

We are a member/user of the iTunes affiliate program. It would be awesome if we would be able to parse the found url as ready-made affiliate URL's. Ours is trough Tradedoubler (iTunes Affiiate Europe), but I know US uses Linksynergy.

iTunes Affiliate Resources

Our (European) iTunes affiliate URLs look like this: 

https://itunes.apple.com/nl/app/iculture/id504842981?mt=8&partnerID=2003&tduid=NL1380330

This part is the affiliate part. 

&partnerID=2003&tduid=NL1380330

I've already changed the iph.py and app.py myself (wasn't able to change the its.py), but since the workflow is now Alleyoop compatible it would be awesome if I don't have to think about this to change this every time.

Thanks for the excellent workflow!

Is there a URL scheme, or something, that you could tie into so if you hit ENTER it goes to the web plugin, but if you hit CMD+ENTER it goes to the app with the search pre-filled and you can copy there by hitting CMD+OPT+C?

I would be REALLY happy to see this, but not sure if 1Password currently has an URL scheme or will get one in v4. But this would be an excellent idea, since 1Password DOES support this for their iOS version (I have this in Launch Center Pro).

The URL for the spotify workflows is broken - can anyone else export if for me please!?

 

Cheers

You can still find it on the author's Github. It's just not at the v2 tree link anymore.

Correct link: https://github.com/phpfunk/alfred-spotify-controls/

Direct download: Spotify Controls