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Sometimes I don't want to read the whole blog again to find the paragraph about 'pitfalls' is there a way to use Alfred to search on a page just for a word? maybe is already done and I just don't know about it. let me know

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20 hours ago, deanishe said:

That's an extremely vague description. What exactly are you imagining doing with Alfred and what do you think should happen then?

fair enough...

 

let's pretend I go to https://daringfireball.net and instead of read all his posts I just bring Alfred and write a word I know it's inside of the post I'm looking for... when I hit enter that word is selected in the page I'm reading. 

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19 hours ago, deanishe said:

So you want to trigger Safari's own search via Alfred?

 

Put your query on the find pasteboard with the bash/zsh command echo "$1" | pbcopy -pboard find then simulate ⌘F to trigger Safari’s search.

 

Thanks for your help man. I just need a little bit of direction... where I place that code? Sorry for the stupid question

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