Florian

UPDATE by Vero (Alfred's mum):
The AlfPT site was a pilot project for an installer/updater by Tom Hunt and is no longer available.
   
AlfPT was a wonderful idea by an Alfred user, Tom Hunt, to create a way for workflows to be updated and gathered in one place. However, Tom has decided to take the project offline (due to school/work commitments and the bandwidth requirements of that project). As such, documentation in this thread is now outdated.
 
Here's what's coming soon:
- Other users are working on their own repositories for workflows
- We are working on an official v2 Extras site, which will include curated workflows (which we've tested and checked) and themes
 
We'll also be publishing a few blog posts with our favourite and your favourite workflows very soon, so keep an eye on the blog for the links to the above!
 
 
 
 

The Unofficial Alfred Workflow Repository
 
 
 

 
 
Hi all
 
Introducing AlfPT - the easy way to install and update your Alfred v2 Workflows.
 
Download the AlfPT workflow here
 
 
Workflow Users
 
Once you've installed AlfPT use the following commands:
 
alfpt install {query} :  to find new workflows to install
alfpt install {query} -a {author} -b {bundleid} : filter results by author/bundle id. Both flags are optional.
alfpt update : to list any workflows you've installed through AlfPT that have new versions available. Select one to update.
alfpt update -f : to list all of your workflows, regardless of whether there are new versions available. Select one to update.
 
Workflow Developers
 
Want to get your workflows into the repo?
 
Visit the AlfPT homepage to register and start uploading workflows. 
 
If there are any files in your workflows that you do not want to be overwritten during the update process (config files and the link) prefix them with an underscore e.g _icons 
 
 
It's very likely that the AlfPT workflow will be updated regularly over the next few days so keep alfpt update-ing to get the latest release.
 
If you run into any problems just let me know.
 
Happy workflowing!
 
 
Tom

Thanks for the suggestions Florian. I've reworked the workflow. It now handles existing comments and leaves them intact. I'm not keeping a list of ignored files. I use mdfind to dynamically construct the list. I've change the keyword to a default keyword ignore not to confuse people.
 
 
Download: http://cl.ly/032U2J2l2f0z

What about typing a * in front of "Haze" ? 

Just wanted to share a few quick tips for debugging. If you're using /bin/bash to run a script, you can add "2> error.log" to output errors to a file. Example:
ruby script.rb "{query}" 2> error.log  
All errors will then be logged to error.log in your workflow's folder.
 
Or if you want all output logged (perhaps so you can view the xml from a script filter), you could use tee:
 
ruby script.rb "{query}" 2>&1 | tee output.log  
That'll log errors from stderr in addition to standard output. Note that PHP doesn't output to stderr, so if you're using PHP you'll have to check PHP's error log instead.
 
Also, if you have any formatting errors in a script filters' XML, Alfred will log it to Console.app.
 
Hope this helps, and feel free to share your own tips.
 

It seems awfully clunky to create a new text snippet. Alfred makes a lot of stuff so much quicker, so to have to stop, go to the preferences and manually enter a new piece of text for a saved snippet feels like a drag. I wonder if there couldn't be an easier way of creating snippets on the fly. The simplest way would be to allow you to perform an action on one of your clipboard history entries, to "store as snippet". Or, just a command in Alfred: "snippet <new text clipping>".
 
Heck, this would be a perfect thing for a user-created workflow. I'd do it myself, but that "snippets.alfdb" file is a bit to impenetrable for me (and, I'm assuming, not designed to be messed with externally).

You can do anything with Alfred 2

I just use sox coupled with lame. Since I only ever convert to high quality MP3 (I mean as high as mp3 quality goes   ) when I want to send a file or something, it's easy to have a simple command. But sox does many formats and qualities.  

Hello,
 
It would be great if you could somehow enter configurations in a workflow and these configurations would apply to the entire workflow. This could simply be a textbox with some JSON that the workflows could access and parse. I don't think anything fancy is needed.
 
For example, in my CloudApp workflow (more on this here), I need people who use it to edit a file to enter the credentials for their CloudApp account and archive the files themselves. It would be way easier if they could just import the workflow and fill out the needed fields.

Hi, 
 
I've created a simple workflow to manage my 'alfred ignore list'. It reuses some PHP code from jdwarrior. I hope that's not a problem :-)
 
The workflow contains a file action to add the alfred:ignore comment to a file. This will make Alfredapp ignore the file and not show it as a search result anymore. Type 'ignorelist' to display a list of all currently ignored files. Selecting a file will remove all spotlight comments (beware!) and will make Alfred list it in the search results again. 
 
I hope it's of use to anyone else. It helps me to get rid off all the annoying and useless apps showing up in my results. Again, it blatantly removes all spotlight comments right now and I've not tested it thoroughly yet, but I'll try to fix any issues asap.
 
You probably need to reload Alfred's cache after using this workflow: just type 'reload' and select 'Reload Alfred Cache'.
PS: Any way to do that programmatically?
 
Download: http://cl.ly/3P092T38282j
 
regards, J.

Hi everybody,
 
On the one hand, this is an adaptation of an v1 extension I used, 
Color Chooser by TDB ( http://plugins.ro )
 

 
On the other hand, you can also copy some hex color codes into alfred and see the color itself:
 

 
Which you then can proceed to copy as rgb values.
 
The code for this is a quickly thrown together, horrible amalgamation of php, ruby, sh and apple script; but it works nicely
 
Download: http://cl.ly/0M0L1w1B0S3Q
 

Convert numbers between binary, octagonal, decimal, hexadecimal
 


 
Download: http://cl.ly/2a01053F2g29

So I made a workflow with fed back results.
 
But I made it a somewhat special way in that currencies are defined within the workflow. I really like how simple it makes it though.
 
But it's easy to change for your own currencies (if like me you only ever use the same) or to combine with the one posted by theFeverDog (first post of this topic) to get something more dynamic.
 
http://cl.ly/MBJ8

Ok, so I can't yet post the complete workflow because my batteries are dying (Mac and me both) but here's a little teaser http://cl.ly/M8Vf
 
The workflow pulls each apps icon from the itunes store as well as the link. Then it forms a proper affiliate link and copies it to clipboard.
 
Tomorrow I'll post the complete workflow... Just couldn't go to bed without joining in on the fun
 
NIght all
PL

Hey guys,
 
So I've been making this little extension. It works quite simply really. Just open the script, enter a valid RSS feed (must be xml) and your good to go! 
 
 
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14050630/RSS.alfredworkflow  
Don't hesitate to ask for anything.
 

Hey guys, 
 
so I'm not trying to steal anybody's thunder here so let me start by saying that Ryan Paul and Stephen Millard did all the work here.
 
I just compiled the whole thing in one workflow with which you can create a new note, add content to a previous one, search a note by title in alfred, and search a note's content in evernote. Just take a look at the workflow to see what it does and what modifier keys to use.
 
http://cl.ly/MAiE
 
What what is cool with this is how to append text to a note:
- type the keyword "evernote"
- start typing the name of a note and then <tab> to autocomplete
- type the content you want to add starting with ":"

Hey guys, 
 
so I'm not trying to steal anybody's thunder here so let me start by saying that Ryan Paul and Stephen Millard did all the work here.
 
I just compiled the whole thing in one workflow with which you can create a new note, add content to a previous one, search a note by title in alfred, and search a note's content in evernote. Just take a look at the workflow to see what it does and what modifier keys to use.
 
http://cl.ly/MAiE
 
What what is cool with this is how to append text to a note:
- type the keyword "evernote"
- start typing the name of a note and then <tab> to autocomplete
- type the content you want to add starting with ":"

So I made a workflow with fed back results.
 
But I made it a somewhat special way in that currencies are defined within the workflow. I really like how simple it makes it though.
 
But it's easy to change for your own currencies (if like me you only ever use the same) or to combine with the one posted by theFeverDog (first post of this topic) to get something more dynamic.
 
http://cl.ly/MBJ8

So I made a workflow with fed back results.
 
But I made it a somewhat special way in that currencies are defined within the workflow. I really like how simple it makes it though.
 
But it's easy to change for your own currencies (if like me you only ever use the same) or to combine with the one posted by theFeverDog (first post of this topic) to get something more dynamic.
 
http://cl.ly/MBJ8

Hey guys,
 
here is a Google Translate workflow i made based on Anders Bech Mellson's work. Once again, I don't want to take credit for a work that isn't mine. I'm just feeding back to alfred the results of an already good extension.
 
Press enter to copy to clipboard, FN to look up on the actual translate.google.com website. 
 
It's really easy to add / remove / edit for your own set of languages, just look at the workflow.
 
http://cl.ly/MAI3

Hey guys, 
 
so I'm not trying to steal anybody's thunder here so let me start by saying that Ryan Paul and Stephen Millard did all the work here.
 
I just compiled the whole thing in one workflow with which you can create a new note, add content to a previous one, search a note by title in alfred, and search a note's content in evernote. Just take a look at the workflow to see what it does and what modifier keys to use.
 
http://cl.ly/MAiE
 
What what is cool with this is how to append text to a note:
- type the keyword "evernote"
- start typing the name of a note and then <tab> to autocomplete
- type the content you want to add starting with ":"

Hey guys,
 
here is a Google Translate workflow i made based on Anders Bech Mellson's work. Once again, I don't want to take credit for a work that isn't mine. I'm just feeding back to alfred the results of an already good extension.
 
Press enter to copy to clipboard, FN to look up on the actual translate.google.com website. 
 
It's really easy to add / remove / edit for your own set of languages, just look at the workflow.
 
http://cl.ly/MAI3

A simple workflow for this very useful website: downforeveryoneorjustme.com
 
http://cl.ly/MBEF

Preface:  Please bear with me on this one, I was a bit excited writing about this feature request so I am sure I repeat myself plenty but a quick read and the screenshot should tell it all. Thank you!
 
The workflow section is amazing and with the new layout of workflows I think it would be even better if workflow creators could give users notes about usage and possible variables that need to be adjusted or can be adjusted in various scripts located throughout the workflow.
 
Yes, I know titles and subtext exist to explain the basic idea behind what a workflow does, but as of now if different parameters can be set within a script the developer either comments the parameters in the script itself, which is always good practice or in the worst case scenario no comments exist and the user searches through the code to figure out what the parameters can be used by double clicking the script icon in the workflow to view the script and/or search for comments containing information about different parameters that the script can take advantage of.
 
I hope this will clear up what I am getting at:
 
Take for example one of Pedro Lobo's wonderful workflows: "Spotlight Comments" - Pedro always comments his code very neatly for users to view parameters and makes a detailed installation and usage instructions for his users wherever he posts the workflow. When a repository is up and running and these wonderful detailed instructions are not joined with the actual workflow download the user is missing a lot.
 
This is what Pedro posted with his workflow:
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"Installation and Setup
  Download and import. As for setup, there isn’t much to it. Simply define what your desired default action should be when encountering existing comments. Change property defaultOverwrite : "append"  accordingly. Possible options are append, replace and interactive.   Extension Usage   Triggering the extension and entering text without any of the following parameters will default the the behaviour discussed above, with the exception of delete of course. -d — Will remove any spotlight comment from the selected files; -a — Will append to existing comments; -r — Will replace existing comments; -i — Will function interactively allowing you to decide on a file by file basis. It will display the existing comment to facilitate your decision too  There is no need to leave any space after the parameter but you can do so if you prefer (it will be stripped from the begging) 
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Sometimes after you download a workflow you forget all of this wonderful information.
 
Solution: 
 
 

 
 
 
In the workflow "environment" allow for the developer and users the option of inserting a text field that spanned the bottom of the workflow screen that can be added by the workflow creator and especially the user to make comments about the workflow.
 
1) It could be used for jotting ideas while creating workflows.
2) Wouldn't require remembering where a workflow was downloaded from and visiting that site (if a site is listed in details) to learn more about it.
3) Usage instructions would be right their for you to see at a glance.
4) When making modifications to someone else's workflow, note your changes.
 
So many great uses for a feature like this and I beg of you, If you implement any feature I ask for during this beta period, PLEASE let it be this one!!
 
Keep interface clean:
The text Field could slide up from the bottom if added and then collapsed again to make the workflow view clean and pretty but when you need the details or want to make a quick note, you can pull it up and edit away never again forgetting important info about the workflow.
 
I am sure Andrew will have a great way to implement this. Please vote it up so it happens, thank you to everyone for sharing their workflows and again to the Alfred team for letting me beta test and make feature requests. Cheers!

Some feature requests that I documented over the weekend while writing my first workflow:   Ability to buffer input for script filters (Wait until user is finished typing before calling script)Usage scenario: more reliable usage of web script filters that hit slow web APIs (e.g. GitHub repo search) Debugging tools for script filters, or at least a mechanism that lets me see stdoutUsage scenario: It'd be great to be able to know if my Python script raised an exception or emitted bad XML. Allow keyboard shortcut to open Alfred file browser at a certain pathUsage scenario: cmd+ctrl+shift+d to browse ~/Dropbox. I was able to do this in previous version of Alfred, but can't find v2 equivalent Allow keyboard shortcut to pass arbitrary text string as argUsage scenario: I want to have keyboard shortcuts for my Hue workflow that set the value to 0 or 255 (highest and lowest brightness) Support JSON output for script filtersXML is a pain to generate and properly encode. Serializing a dictionary into JSON from Python is much easier. Add an option that enables piping to script actions so that we have the choice of reading from stdin instead of using {query}.Usage scenario: this would be desirable for things like my markdown processor where I'm potentially taking a large amount of arbitrary text as input A way to name scripts actions (or provide some other way to make them easily distinguishable)Usage scenario: If I have several in a workflow, it's sometimes hard to find the one I'm actually looking for Hotkey option for "selected text OR clipboard" that will use clipboard as input when no text is selected.Usage scenario: this is something that I wanted for my Markdown workflow so that I don't have to have two separate shortcuts. Thanks!

I'd be nice to be able to cycle thru the history, i.e. when I reach the oldest command, I can hit ↑ again to see the most recent element. 
 
What do you think?