Workflow with 2 arguments

[rrosson]

I am attempting to write my first workflow to assist me with doing a task that I have to perform on a regular basis. The base of this workflow will be to lookup data from a website with a give argument and query, For each argument (type) selects a given URL to apply the query. With it all put together it should open the resulting URL with the information I am looking for. I have written a quick and dirty bash script that takes 2 arguments that works but I would rather do this in alfred's workflow to avoid having to run a terminal command to open a browser window. Below is a sanitized version of my bash script.

 

#!/bin/bash

# $1 will be what we are looking for
# $2 will be what we input as an argument


MYNAME=`basename $0`

if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
  echo "Usage: $MYNAME type query" 1>&2
  exit 2
fi


	case "$1" in
		abc)
		open http://www.myurl.com/blah.aspx?q=$2&v=abc
		;;
		def)
		open http://www.myurl.com/blah.aspx?q=$2&v=def
		;;
		ghi)
		open http://www.myurl.com/blah.aspx?ghi=$2
		;;
		jkl)
		open http://www.myurl.com/blah.aspx?q=$2&v=jkl
		;;
		mno)
		open http://www.myurl.com/blah.aspx?mno=$2
		;;
		pqr)
		open http://www.myurl.com/blah.aspx?$2
		;;
		stu)
		open http://www.myurl.com/blah.aspx?q=$2&v=stu
		;;
		*)
		echo "oops"
		;;
	esac
 

 

any guidance or samples showing how to do this would be awesome

 

TIA

 

[rice.shawn]

Basically the same question is asked here: http://www.alfredforum.com/topic/2041-can-we-use-2-arguments/

 

The simplest way is to create a script that parses the argument and then feeds it to the next script.

[jdfwarrior]

Basically the same question is asked here: http://www.alfredforum.com/topic/2041-can-we-use-2-arguments/

 

The simplest way is to create a script that parses the argument and then feeds it to the next script.

 

Thanks Shawn

[rrosson]

If I am reading this correctly I will have one main script and a script for each based on the first argument. Is there a workflow that is already working that takes 2 arguments that I can look at to possibly see how it is being done?

 

TIA

[rice.shawn]

You could do it that way, or you could just have it as the beginning of the script. Here's a php version:

 

 

 

$var = explode(" ","{query}");
$output = "";

foreach( $var as $key => $val ) :
    $output .= "Arg #" . $key . ": " . $val . "\r\n";
endforeach;

echo $output;
 

 

So, with this, I just turn the query into an array via the explode function, using a space as the delimiter (make sure you don't escape spaces), and then I have them as an array. You can do something similar in bash.