Self-contained workflow for caniuse

[chrillek]

Several years ago, Will Farrell posted a workflow to search the caniuse.com database. It was written using PHP.

 

I re-wrote that workflow in JavaScript, so it does not depend on a PHP installation. Code and the complete workflow are on GitHub

 

Note: The workflow relies on a static JSON file provided by the caniuse.com author. This file does not contain all data from the website, though.

 

 

Edited October 29, 2022 by chrillek

[Pyetro]

Hello @chrillek, looks like the workflow stopped working since a while, as also reported on the GitHub issue page.

 

I got the following error:

 

[15:53:56.767] Search Caniuse.com[Script Filter] Script with argv 'animation' finished
[15:53:56.774] ERROR: Search Caniuse.com[Script Filter] Code 1: /Users/pyetro/Library/Caches/com.runningwithcrayons.Alfred/Workflow Scripts/88DD1F81-5185-473D-9D1E-4427A3E3E4BD: execution error: Error: SyntaxError: JSON Parse error: Unable to parse JSON string (-2700)

 

Thanks in advance for your help!

[chrillek]

I can't reproduce this (Sonoma 14.1.1, Alfred 5.1.4). But then the folder you mentioned is empty here. I have the workflow in this folder

 

/Users/ck/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/Alfred/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows/user.workflow.8750F239-B45D-49D4-94B6-9A1BD6B1DB68

 

(as I use iCloud sync). And in the folder, there are three files

 

 

-rwx------@ 1 ck  staff  193043 26 Nov 15:15 data.json
-rwx------  1 ck  staff   10699 27 Okt  2022 icon.png
-rwx------  1 ck  staff    9687 29 Okt  2022 info.plist

 

So, the data.json is fairly recent. And the info.plist, which _is_ the workflow. I also ran the current version of data.json (see here: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Fyrd/caniuse/main/fulldata-json/data-2.0.json) through a validator and that came out fine.

 

The error itself is raised by Apple's framework when it tries to parse the JSON it downloaded from GitHub. I just tried doing that here and it worked without a glitch, too

 

Perhaps you can provide more information, e.g. the content of the folder you mentioned above? It's difficult to fix an error that one can't reproduce.

 

[Pyetro]

Thank for your fast support @chrillek!

You are absolutely right, that folder path was suspicious as it was located in some cache folder!

I just deleted the workflow and reinstalled from the Alfred Workflow Gallery website and it's working again like a charm..

 

Sorry for the false alarm, but thanks for having pointed out immediately the possible issue.

 

Thank you!