Workflows previewing search results no longer working in Alfred 4

[Skone]

One of my most used workflows has been the google inline search: https://github.com/ethan-funny/Google-Alfred3-Workflow

 

This no longer works, and goes straight to fallback options. Anyone else had this problem after updating?

 

Moving to Alfred 4 has stopped this working, permissions are all correct in accessibility settings. No change when disabling firewall.

[Vero]

@bazerman Have you tried Alfred's built-in Google Suggest workflow? Go to the Workflows tab > Examples > Google Suggest. As far as I can see, it does the same thing as that workflow

 

Cheers,
Vero

[deanishe]

4 minutes ago, Vero said:

As far as I can see, it does the same thing as that workflow

 

It doesn't. The above workflow shows search results, not suggestions.

 

@bazerman You should try posting an issue on the workflow's issue tracker on GitHub. The author isn't a member of the forum AFAIK, and they're the best person to help you.

 

For future reference, if you're having problems with a workflow, either ask in the workflow's thread in the Share your Workflows forum, or if it doesn't have one and there's no issue tracker, ask in the Workflow Help & Questions forum. I'm going to move this thread there now.

[Skone]

Thanks - will do and I'll report back.

 

Saying that, I'm not 100% that it's a problem specific to that workflow: currently, any workflow that involves calling online results from within alfred seem to have broken down since updating 3 → 4. 

[deanishe]

9 hours ago, bazerman said:

any workflow that involves calling online results from within alfred seem to have broken down since updating 3 → 4.

 

Which error messages are you seeing in Alfred's debugger?

[Skone]

1 hour ago, deanishe said:

 

Which error messages are you seeing in Alfred's debugger?

[21:54:26.690] Logging Started...

[21:54:32.155] Google Search[Script Filter] Queuing argument ''

[21:54:32.523] Google Search[Script Filter] Queuing argument 't'

[21:54:32.645] Google Search[Script Filter] Queuing argument 'te'

[21:54:32.723] Google Search[Script Filter] Queuing argument 'tes'

[21:54:32.791] Google Search[Script Filter] Queuing argument 'test'

[21:54:34.128] Google Search[Script Filter] Script with argument '(null)' finished

[21:54:37.172] Google Search[Script Filter] Script with argument '(null)' finished

[21:54:37.176] Google Search[Script Filter] <items />

[deanishe]

The issue is that Google isn't returning the page the workflow expects. The results are there, but the workflow's parser doesn't understand the HTML in the returned page.

 

You'll need to ask the workflow's author to fix it.