iMessage focus with part of name/handle

[JvdMeulen]

Hi guys,

 

i often check my iMessages to see if someone is online.

With this workflow you can search for people based on their name / handle (email / telephone / etc) and full name

 

If it's a gtalk users it displays the online status

 

When you enter it focusses the iMessages app, selects the user and you're ready to type a message.

 

 

 

 

 

todo: the other protocol (bonjour) but let me know if anyone's interested.

 

 

Let me know what you think of it 

 

Download 0.01

 

 

Edited March 18, 2013 by JvdMeulen

[samvlu]

Awesome!

 

Just what I was looking for!

Good work sir.

[nemrod]

1 - PERFECT !

2 - THANKS !

 

 

Can we add a message directly too, so we have only to send ?

[funkymonkey]

I <3 this.

[sigalakos]

Amazing workflow, makes my daily dealing with Messages much more bearable. Thanks!

[JvdMeulen]

Any other (feature) suggestions?

 

 

ps: @nemrod I'll look later to see if that's possible

[brymonster]

only seems to work for emails (gTalk/iMessage).. wont iMessage phone #'s?

[iEnno]

Thanks so much for this!

[JvdMeulen]

only seems to work for emails (gTalk/iMessage).. wont iMessage phone #'s?

To me it does phonenumbers too (see images at the top) or am i misunderstanding you?

[brymonster]

sorry, i meant searching with a name wont show a contacts phone numbers that are valid for imsg only the email handle. correct? u have to search by # or by email. 

any way to just use a contacts name for iMessaging the email or phone number? 

great workflow by the way.. 

To me it does phonenumbers too (see images at the top) or am i misunderstanding you?

[buzr]

awesome.. jsut works fine... the next step:

 

write the message/reply directly through alfred!!! this would be so cool!!!!

[mariva]

I was trying to accomplish something similar, but I was hoping to use simpler inputs and methods:

 

http://www.alfredforum.com/topic/1687-workflow-to-message-a-specific-contact/

http://www.alfredforum.com/topic/1741-how-to-launch-an-app-messages-using-a-specific-contact-from-contacts/

 

I guess I'm a little flummoxed that such a seemingly simple task would require so much scripting. Alfred has email-a-specific-contact built in, so why not message-a-specific-contact as well?

[mariva]

awesome.. jsut works fine... the next step:

 

write the message/reply directly through alfred!!! this would be so cool!!!!

 

Not to seem ungrateful, but I agree. ;-)

[POR7O]

Hoi,

 

i like the workflow to a lot! Thank you very much for it!

Sending Text through it would be even better, that´s true. But i ilke that i just land exactly on the person i want to write and can start typing.

 

I added a Facebook Chat account this morning via Jabber and since then the workflow takes like several minutes to find the name.

https://www.evernote.com/shard/s105/sh/eeb8317d-06b3-4d0e-b8cd-d364724a8efd/b46e4a536647e0ee7c4a54c2b6306ac9

Starting Messages.app... please wait.

 

Before adding facebook it worked perfect. I assume, of course, that FB is the reason, but i would like to know why and to keep FB also...

 

Thanks in advance,

Daniel

[ayn]

this is an awesome workflow, pure genius, thank you!

[vitor]

So far, it seems to work great, thank you for this. May I suggest Alleyoop integration?

Also, I think it’d be interesting that if you typed “im” (without a name), it would just show the currently online contacts (this would only make sense for the gmail contacts, naturally).

[ayn]

So far, it seems to work great, thank you for this. May I suggest Alleyoop integration?

Also, I think it’d be interesting that if you typed “im” (without a name), it would just show the currently online contacts (this would only make sense for the gmail contacts, naturally).

 

Yeah, currently online contacts as well as contacts with open conversations (iMessage mostly), if possible. I use this mainly to quickly go to an open conversation as the keyboard shortcuts is slow, and built-in search is useless (I also re-mapped to Chatology).

[johannieuwerth]

Hi Jasper,

 

I love the concept of your workflow and tested it, but it seems after Mavericks it no longer works, at least not on my Messages.

I noticed in the script that it looks for "Gmail" service specifically, could that be the cause?

[suan]

Yeah, I'm on Mavericks and it doesn't seem to work for me either

[jhinden]

Would love something like this but that opened Google and Hangouts to chat instead of Messenger. Is that possible? Thanks!

[hugobert]

Love this workflow and use it since 2013 but sadly it broke with installing Big Sur.

 

[20:28:29.115] iMessages[Script Filter] Queuing argument ''
[20:28:29.266] iMessages[Script Filter] Script with argv '(null)' finished
[20:28:29.270] ERROR: iMessages[Script Filter] Code 1: 28:36: execution error: Die Variable „services“ ist nicht definiert. (-2753)
[20:28:29.939] iMessages[Script Filter] Queuing argument 'k'
[20:28:30.038] iMessages[Script Filter] Script with argv '(null)' finished
[20:28:30.046] ERROR: iMessages[Script Filter] Code 1: 28:36: execution error: Die Variable „services“ ist nicht definiert. (-2753)

 

Any chance to get it fixed? 

[JvdMeulen]

It's from 2013, you shouldn't use it anymore ;-)

 

Besides, i think more and better people have created nicer scripts.

I can't help you, sorry

[vitor]

16 hours ago, hugobert said:

Love this workflow and use it since 2013 but sadly it broke with installing Big Sur.

Because Messages on Big Sur is a different app than it had been so far. It’s the iOS app ported to macOS, which probably (I’m not on Big Sur yet to confirm) means no automation anymore.

 

Who you should complain to is Apple. Open the Feedback Assistant and ask for scriptability in their apps. They’ve been gutting it left and right.