Findmoji

[rknightuk]

Author: Me
Github: https://github.com/rknightuk/alfred-workflows/tree/main/workflows/findmoji
Dependencies: none
Icon: https://github.com/rknightuk/alfred-workflows/raw/main/workflows/findmoji/src/icon.png
Screenshot: https://github.com/rknightuk/alfred-workflows/raw/main/workflows/findmoji/src/screenshot.png 

[vitor]

This doesn’t affect inclusion, but the Script Filter can be made faster / with fewer steps.

You’re using bash to call osascript to call script.js which spits out some JSON. First way you could simplify that would be to use External Script instead of /bin/bash and call script.js directly, with the proper shebang (#!/usr/bin/osascript -l JavaScript). But the way simpler method is to leave it as /bin/bash and just do a cat on a JSON file!

In other words, you’re calling osascript with a huge object which the script then converts to a string (the JSON) and outputs it to Alfred, that’s repeated unnecessary computation. By doing it once and saving the JSON file with the workflow, you can simply tell the Script Filter to output the file itself. Less code, fewer resources needed, and faster.

[rknightuk]

You're absolutely right and I'm kicking myself now for making it so much more difficult that it needed to be. Both this and HTTP codes have been updated to 1.0.1 used `cat` on the JSON instead of mapping it for no reason.

 

Thanks Vitor, appreciate your help.