solved How: macOS Text Replacement -> Alfred Snippets

[CMA]

Hi, I have a lot of text expansion snippets in macOS system preferences and have managed to export these into a plist file.

 

Is there a way to simply import these into Alfred or do I have to manually add them in, one by one?

 

Many thanks.

 

C

[deanishe]

Here’s a script that can import your macOS text replacements into an Alfred snippet collection.

 

[CMA]

Brilliant. Thank you. this worked liked a dream and saved me tonne of typing!

[Shantni]

@deanishe

hi 

I am trying to get the sun macOs text replacements to alfred snippets using the script but I am not making any progress

I am total noob so Please be Patient with me an help me out. 

First I made a folder called snippets here (Please see image)

Then I modified the script as mentioned by replacing SNIPPETS_DIR to snippets(the folder I created)

Then finally i ran the script and i get this error

any help will be much appreciated

 

 

 

[deanishe]

3 hours ago, Shantni said:

First I made a folder called snippets here (Please see image)

 

No, the “snippets” folder is inside the Alfred.alfredpreferences bundle. Right-click on it and choose “Show Package Contents"

 

That should be clear from the “Configuration” section on the page linked above. It's important to read carefully if you're a noob.

[Shantni]

@deanishe

Thank you  for your reply.

 I did read that part but I guess I am simply too dumb to understand that. So I just copy the script and run instead of making any changes?  I'm getting the same error message still?  

 I tried running  the terminal from both snippets directory in the bundle you suggested and also from the macOS sub directory 

zsh: event not found: /usr/bin/python is the error I get 

Edited July 15, 2021 by Shantni
Added more info

[deanishe]

7 hours ago, Shantni said:

I tried running  the terminal from both snippets directory

 

Just run it from this directory. You seem to be running it wrong. I don’t know what app you’re using in your screenshot, but it isn’t a code editor. The script must be plain text, not some RTF or DOC file. If you haven’t made the script executable with chmod +x shortcuts2alfred.py, you have to run it like in a shell this: /usr/bin/python shortcuts2alfred.py

 

To specify the snippet directory, run SNIPPET_DIR=/path/to/Alfred.preferences/snippets /usr/bin/python shortcuts2alfred.py

 

So if you’re using the standard prefs location (i.e. you aren’t syncing your prefs), the shell command you need would be: SNIPPET_DIR="~/Library/Application Support/Alfred/Alfred.alfredpreferences/snippets" /usr/bin/python shortcuts2alfred.py

 

[Shantni]

@deanishe okay this is what I am doing

1. I copied the text from your blog,

2. opened terminal from the snippets folder in Alfred pref package

3. pasted text in terminal and ran it

this is what I get( its my terminal window)

[deanishe]

5 hours ago, Shantni said:

pasted text in terminal and ran it

 

It’s a script. I explained how to run it. There's a link to download the script on the webpage.

 

If something about my instructions isn't clear, then I'd be happy to clarify.