Florian

I want to do this for the challenge There is no real reason except that i like having everything done through Alfred. I had done pretty much the same thing you did. Thanks though. Any more ideas?

Hey gang, I had in mind to create a very simple and straightforward Fantastical workflow. A few were already made but they don't do what I would like them to do: I want to type something in alfred and have it being typed in fantastical at the same time (the focus stays on alfred at all times), and then only switch to fantastical when i press enter. You could imagine the same use case for the "Help" search box from every app, or from "Shortcat"... The applescript for Fantastical is rather simple: tell application "Fantastical" to parse sentence "{query}" Is there a way to trigger that applescript without Alfred losing focus ? I have also tried a simpler thing: tell application "AppleScript Editor" to quit And Alfred will lose focus if "AppleScript Editor" is the frontmost app but not if it isn't.

Is there a thread that sums up all requests for "better handling of script filters"?

I like this idea, but i think it would (often but not always) mean longer response times (loading an image, downloading more data...). Thus this should only happen if it finally is possible to: - have dynamic results (they display as soon as they are ready and not the whole list at once) - kill a script (when you type a N character query, a script starts for the first character and might slow down the N character query).

A workflow triggered by a shortcut could directly take the selected text or the text in the clipboard and return translation within Alfred. Translations would literally be one keystroke away from anywhere.

Hey community, So here's my use case, and i'm sure we could come up with dozens more: I'm using fniephaus's awesome gmail workflow and when i type "gmail INBOX" i get a list of emails. Now some of those i want to mark as read. Then I have to individually go to each one of these and press enter and press "mark as read"... So I figure: ideally i'd press Alt+DOWN on a few of these and they'd stack up and then i'd be able to trigger an action. So of course there are ways of doing this without Alfred's native file buffer. And of course it would mean writing more script for the developer. But wouldn't it be great to take advantage of this nice little piece of UI? Cheers.

Yeah that's cool And I can't think of a concrete application of having the IP handy, but I remember needing it in the past. And it's just cool

yes :-)

That's cool. Could you add a secondary result with the resolved DNS matching the resolved address? I think it could be useful sometimes and it wouldn't take any extra time i believe.

Hey guys, here's an über simple workflow that relies on Urban Dictionary's hidden API to provide definitions for words that might not be in the default dictionary. download link packal page github repo

It definitely seems feasible, there is an API http://www.utorrent.com/community/developers/webapi But i've never used utorrent so I don't really have any motivation to spend time on this, sorry.

Wow that's actually great Any chance of a "mark as read" action through another modifier key (like "fn")? That'd perfectly fit the way i use my gmail.

I guess I mainly use it to find characters that aren't on the keyboard (arrows, boxes...) and I appreciate the ability to look by keywords. I do know about your workflow but somehow it never really fitted my purpose.

And where you do have this alfred_filter.py?

That sounds smart. I would love to do that. But I have no idea how to. To me if feels that option 1 is to actually rewrite Alfred and execute the code myself with a given query, option 2 is to intercept the queries and their related XML outputs from the real alfred. What would be your approach?

I don't really see what could be extracted from the info.plist. Could you help me out? Below is what describes a "state" of alfred in my simulation. What in there should come from the plist? { "alfred": { "title": " an input query", "icon": "imgs/icon.png", "list": [{ "title": "result 1", "sub": "explanation of result 1" }, { "title": "result 2", "sub": "explanation of result 2", "selected": true }] }, "duration": 1000 }

I like this Here's what I use on a very regular basis (except my own, they always start from personal need ) Dash by Bogdan Popescu. Search programming documentation with the Dash app. Couldn't code without it. So, so good. (i'm just repeating deanishe's words because they are so true) Audio Switch, by Sampayo. Switch between your inputs and your outputs. A must have for anyone making music with their computer. movie lookup, by Simonbs. Gives you ratings, actors, trailer, synopsis... for any movie Colors, by Tyler Eich. Smart and fast workflow to get a color in different notations (rgb, hsb, hex...) CoffeeCofee, by Vitor. Toggles a caffeinate so that your computer does not go to sleep. Units, by designandsuch. Converts any unit to any other. Distances, currencies, weights... Also I feel like this is the place to say this: I'd love a good amp-what.com workflow as well as a grunt one. Developers?

Wow I had never seen that you implemented my request, super nice

Then if that's all it takes... There you go It's now up for all browsers. I'm also thinking, when alfred iOS will come out, this could extend to iphones as well but for now it'll do. I take requests by the way: what does it still need to be useful? Do you have ideas of workflows that could be well illustrated with that method? It can pause, play in any direction, loop, trigger events at any state...

The original thread was deleted. The workflow could indeed be extended to more trackers. You can find the code on github and contribute or send me a private message so tha we can talk about it. I did have in mind to optimize workflow speed more than anything (and having a single source is a big part of it) and i never really had a use for other trackers.

Hey guys, I just made a very simple framework to enable people to demo their alfred workflows in a prettier way than a gif. It's a mockup of alfred all in javascript and CSS, with fake osx notifications and pretend key display. Scripting is very easy and all in json and there is all the callback, timing and looping you might want. Here is the live demo; it should be fully operational. More is coming but feel free to fork it on github already ! To all those who have somewhat complex workflows, now you can explain in a very simple way. I'm also thinking Packal could integrate this Detailed instructions on github.

Hey guys, the piratebay workflow will stop working soon because it relies on an API that is closing down. I suggest you head over to the new one I made on this forum, packal or github. It's better and faster anyway

A workflow called "menu" by ctwise does this. And other ones have spawned over time. You should be able to find it in this forum or on Packal maybe.

Ah ah that was me the terminal quote. I wish i had more time to dedicate to Alfred... Anyway. So this Pashua or CocoaDialog (yes, with dependency bundler ) option is a good one for a specific case : a long running process. What if you have a short one (say ~3 seconds for an install or for fetching whatever data)? it's barely worth it to get out, trigger a progress bar, and pop alfred back up. So in my opinion, the self refreshing workflow i made up there would be an okay alternative so long as actual dynamic workflows aren't an option. But what about multiple output workflows? Say I fetch the metadata of a bunch of movies on separate pages. It's gonna take a little time for each of them and it'd be cool to display the first ones you get before the latest ones. Any clue on how to do that? I was thinking that maybe changing the plist file to dynamically add a new Script Filter for each movie fetched could work (but that depends on how alfred is implemented, someone would have to try that if we don't get a better idea). Anything else?

I meant frowned upon because my workflow streams any movie / tv show / music album to vlc with torrents in a matter of seconds. But apart from that i agree with you.