Open link on background, in Safari, staying on the same tab

[Yuri]

How to open url or keyword link with Alfred Bar, but to stay on the same tab?

 

I want to open new tab without leaving current focused tab.

 

Thank you for any help!  

[RodgerWW]

Try this with AppleScript :

set myURL to "https://www.google.com" -- Replace URL with your own or with the {query}

tell application "Safari"
	tell front window
		make new tab at end of tabs with properties {URL:myURL}
	end tell
end tell

 

[Yuri]

Rodger, thanks for the quick response.

 

But this workflow doesn't work. https://yadi.sk/d/3d46Aj503LGqev

I don't know what I am doing wrong. What do you think?

[deanishe]

It works for me, although I think it crashed Safari the first time I ran it…

[RodgerWW]

I have no idea why it wouldn't work for you Yuri, sorry.

[Yuri]

Don't know why, but this wf suddenly works for me too! 

 

It works perfect for url address (thank you RodgerWW!), but doesn't work for Alfred keywords. Is there any chance to use it with other workflows? 

For example, in Alfred bar, to search in Google, I usually use: "g test", but if it needs to open the page in background, what if I use: "bg g test" or something like this, maybe action modifier.

 

The case is, I actually don't always have exact url, but have the word which I write with keywords in Alfred Bar.

 

I think there is a solution to use snippets instead default searches, ie "//go" to paste https://www.google.ru/search?q= . And for this feature I need to write snippets for every searches, which is more than 100. Maybe there is a more convenient solution?

[deanishe]

On 22/07/2017 at 3:09 AM, Yuri said:

 I need to write snippets for every searches, which is more than 100. Maybe there is a more convenient solution?

 

Not really, no. Alfred can't possibly guess which URLs you want to open, so you have to write them down somewhere.

 

A better solution than snippets would probably be a List Filter.

[Yuri]

Deanishe, ok then.