How to filter selection of texts from that of images/videos

[YuTang]

I make a workflow to pass through selection/clipboard contents(only if there is no selection) to Alfred (for example, to search them on a certain website), they can be texts or images, yet I have no idea how to filter them from each other for different usages. Could you please give me any instruction on this, thank u so so much~

[vitor]

Make a Run Script Action with Language set to /usr/bin/osascript (JavaScript) and code:

 

ObjC.import("AppKit")

function run() {
  const clipboardTypes = $.NSPasteboard.generalPasteboard.pasteboardItems.js[0].types.js.map(c => c.js)

  if (clipboardTypes.includes("public.utf8-plain-text") && !clipboardTypes.includes("public.file-url")) return "text"
  return "not text"
}

 

That will output text or not text, depending. Can’t be more precise without knowing your Workflow. Use a Conditional Utility to filter the output.