Programmatic syncing of snippet file to spreadsheet

[danielque]

I have a list of items in a spreadsheet that I'd like to have at my fingertips with Alfred snippets. I'm planning to write a script to sync a `.alfredsnippets` file with that maintained spreadsheet ~once a day. However, I opened a `.alfredsnippets` file in a text editor and can't make sense of the encoding.

 

Can anyone help me out how to encode/decode a `.alfredsnippets` file, so I can make my dream a reality?

 

EDIT: I found this thread which mentions https://github.com/derickfay/import-alfred-snippets, which is useful to me. Also realized the snippets in the Alfred.alfredpreferences package are stored in json, which is easy to work with.

Edited September 14, 2020 by danielque

[vitor]

Welcome @danielque,

 

Just to confirm, does your edit mean you no longer need help and can handle it from here?

[danielque]

Yes, thanks. It would still be helpful to know the .alfredsnippets encoding for future reference though.

[deanishe]

12 hours ago, danielque said:

Can anyone help me out how to encode/decode a `.alfredsnippets` file, so I can make my dream a reality?

 

They're just ZIP files with a different file extension (containing JSON files), though as you've noticed, you'll just want to save them as JSON files to Alfred's preferences bundle.