Search and pass contact's phone number

[andy4222]

Hi, I'm trying to create a workflow that allows me to search my contacts by name and then pass the phone number to the next step in the workflow. How can I accomplish searching the contacts and extracting the phone number

 

I tried to create a file filter with the address as the scope but didn't know how to proceed further. Can anyone please assist me here?

 

 

Edited October 29, 2022 by andy4222

[sepulchra]

I believe you are looking for a contact action:

 

https://www.alfredapp.com/help/workflows/triggers/contact-action/

[andy4222]

Thanks for answering.

I looked at that but I'm not looking for that. I want something that triggers on a keyword and shows me the list of contacts and I can pass out the phone number to the next step (trigger callback url in this case)

[andy4222]

Commenting for visibility

Edited November 4, 2022 by andy4222

[sepulchra]

Is there a reason why you would be able to save a contact action as a variable and pass it to a callback url?

 

Here is something i built with a contact action that saves variables and passes to a script:

 

 

the first variable saves the number from the contact action, and the second variable captures the message i'm sending, and then it hits this script:

 

tell application "Messages"
set targetBuddy to (system attribute "number")
set targetService to id of 1st account whose service type = iMessage
set textMessage to (system attribute "msg")
set theBuddy to participant targetBuddy of account id targetService
send textMessage to theBuddy
end tell

 

I have another that passed a number to an imessage callback url as well.

 

 

 

[andy4222]

If you can share that workflow, I can take a look and see it that works for me. I want something where I can use a keyword, that triggers contact search, and on pressing enter, passes the phone to the next step

Edited November 5, 2022 by andy4222

[sepulchra]

unfortunately, I can't send the workflow because of other personal details in that workflow but here's the content of the variables

 

 

 

 

[andy4222]

Thanks, I don't think that would be a solve to my question though  

 

@vitor If you could help out, that'd be great. 

[vitor]

Look inside your search scope. You’ll realise you’re essentially dealing with abcdp files, which are binary plists. You’ll have to parse those and extract the number. Use /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy. For example, /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c 'Print :Phone' /path/to/file will dive you a dictionary, in which there’s an array with the numbers.