Web Highlight — Link to web pages and highlight text fragments

[vitor]

Usage

Copy the URL to a specific text section of a webpage by triggering the Universal Action or Hotkey with text selected on a website. The resulting URL automatically scrolls to frame the text and highlights it.

Rerunning on a different selection adds the new text to the previous fragments, allowing for multiple disconnected highlights. Running the Universal Action with ⌘↩ removes all other selections.

⤓ Install on the Alfred Gallery | Source

[vitor]

Note that text fragments are a feature which may not work on all web browsers, such as Firefox and Brave, or on all web pages. For best results, avoid highlighting partial words.

 

When reporting issues, please include your exact installed versions of:

• The Workflow.
• Alfred.
• macOS.
  

In addition to:

• The debugger output. Perform the failing action, click “Copy” on the top right and paste it here.
• Details on what you did, what happened, and what you expected to happen. A short video of the steps with the debugger open may help to find the problem faster.
  

Thank you. Accurate and thorough information is crucial for a proper diagnosis which allows me to help you better.

[vitor]

Updated to 2024.2.

Rerunning on a different selection adds the new text to the previous fragments, allowing for multiple disconnected highlights. Running the Universal Action with ⌘↩ removes all other selections.

[outlander]

Wow that's very cool! I didn't even know such functionality existed!

 

I playing around with it, and when using via keyword, on some websites it keeps appending new stuff instead of resetting. For example, in this forum selecting text and <hotkey> creates a new link each time. But on this website it keeps repeating the original one. Does that depend on the website itself? I am using Safari browser.

 

Alfred 5.5 [2257]

macOS Sonoma 14.7 (23H124)

 

In the example below first I select "Control Windows", which works well, and second time I select "You don’t actually need to use Cmd + F to start a search - simply start typing and the search box will appear.", but it still shows "Control Windows".

 

[08:20:13.349] Logging Started...
[08:20:24.779] Web Highlight[Hotkey] Processing complete
[08:20:24.785] Web Highlight[Hotkey] Passing output 'Control windows' to Automation Task
[08:20:24.786] Web Highlight[Automation Task] Running task 'URL Encode Text' with arguments (
    "Control windows"
)
[08:20:24.825] Web Highlight[Automation Task] Processing complete
[08:20:24.829] Web Highlight[Automation Task] Passing output 'Control%20windows' to Replace
[08:20:24.830] Web Highlight[Replace] Processing complete
[08:20:24.831] Web Highlight[Replace] Passing output 'Control%20windows' to Arg and Vars
[08:20:24.832] Web Highlight[Arg and Vars] Processing complete
[08:20:24.833] Web Highlight[Arg and Vars] Passing output '' to Automation Task
[08:20:24.834] Web Highlight[Automation Task] Running task 'Current Front Browser Tab' with no arguments
[08:20:25.020] Web Highlight[Automation Task] Processing complete
[08:20:25.024] Web Highlight[Automation Task] Passing output 'https://culturedcode.com/things/support/articles/2785159/' to Conditional
[08:20:25.025] Web Highlight[Conditional] Processing complete
[08:20:25.026] Web Highlight[Conditional] Passing output 'https://culturedcode.com/things/support/articles/2785159/' to Conditional
[08:20:25.027] Web Highlight[Conditional] Processing complete
[08:20:25.028] Web Highlight[Conditional] Passing output 'https://culturedcode.com/things/support/articles/2785159/' to Arg and Vars
[08:20:25.029] Web Highlight[Arg and Vars] Processing complete
[08:20:25.030] Web Highlight[Arg and Vars] Passing output '' to Conditional
[08:20:25.031] Web Highlight[Conditional] Processing complete
[08:20:25.032] Web Highlight[Conditional] Passing output '' to Automation Task
[08:20:25.041] Web Highlight[Automation Task] Running task 'Close Current Front Browser Tab' with no arguments
[08:20:25.042] Web Highlight[Arg and Vars] Passing output '' to Copy to Clipboard
[08:20:25.257] Web Highlight[Automation Task] Processing complete
[08:20:25.263] Web Highlight[Automation Task] Passing output 'https://culturedcode.com/things/support/articles/2785159/' to Open URL
[08:20:33.350] Web Highlight[Hotkey] Processing complete
[08:20:33.365] Web Highlight[Hotkey] Passing output 'You don’t actually need to use Cmd + F to start a search - simply start typing and the search box will appear.' to Automation Task
[08:20:33.367] Web Highlight[Automation Task] Running task 'URL Encode Text' with arguments (
    "You don\U2019t actually need to use Cmd + F to start a search - simply start typing and the search box will appear."
)
[08:20:33.400] Web Highlight[Automation Task] Processing complete
[08:20:33.406] Web Highlight[Automation Task] Passing output 'You%20don%E2%80%99t%20actually%20need%20to%20use%20Cmd%20%2B%20F%20to%20start%20a%20search%20-%20simply%20start%20typing%20and%20the%20search%20box%20will%20appear.' to Replace
[08:20:33.408] Web Highlight[Replace] Processing complete
[08:20:33.409] Web Highlight[Replace] Passing output 'You%20don%E2%80%99t%20actually%20need%20to%20use%20Cmd%20%2B%20F%20to%20start%20a%20search%20-%20simply%20start%20typing%20and%20the%20search%20box%20will%20appear.' to Arg and Vars
[08:20:33.411] Web Highlight[Arg and Vars] Processing complete
[08:20:33.412] Web Highlight[Arg and Vars] Passing output '' to Automation Task
[08:20:33.413] Web Highlight[Automation Task] Running task 'Current Front Browser Tab' with no arguments
[08:20:33.588] Web Highlight[Automation Task] Processing complete
[08:20:33.593] Web Highlight[Automation Task] Passing output 'https://culturedcode.com/things/support/articles/2785159/#:~:text=Control%20windows' to Conditional
[08:20:33.595] Web Highlight[Conditional] Processing complete
[08:20:33.596] Web Highlight[Conditional] Passing output 'https://culturedcode.com/things/support/articles/2785159/#:~:text=Control%20windows' to Conditional
[08:20:33.597] Web Highlight[Conditional] Processing complete
[08:20:33.598] Web Highlight[Conditional] Passing output 'https://culturedcode.com/things/support/articles/2785159/#:~:text=Control%20windows' to Arg and Vars
[08:20:33.599] Web Highlight[Arg and Vars] Processing complete
[08:20:33.600] Web Highlight[Arg and Vars] Passing output '' to Conditional
[08:20:33.601] Web Highlight[Conditional] Processing complete
[08:20:33.602] Web Highlight[Conditional] Passing output '' to Automation Task
[08:20:33.603] Web Highlight[Automation Task] Running task 'Close Current Front Browser Tab' with no arguments
[08:20:33.604] Web Highlight[Arg and Vars] Passing output '' to Copy to Clipboard
[08:20:33.793] Web Highlight[Automation Task] Processing complete
[08:20:33.799] Web Highlight[Automation Task] Passing output 'https://culturedcode.com/things/support/articles/2785159/#:~:text=Control%20windows' to Open URL

 

Edited October 26 by outlander

[vitor]

I can’t reproduce the behaviour you’re describing at all, on that same website, with the same browser, with the same text selected. You are, however, not on the latest version of Alfred, nor macOS, and perhaps not of Automation Tasks.

[outlander]

Well I can't update my MacOs since it's company policy, but I just updated Alfred.

 

Perhaps I am simply misunderstanding this. When it's amended URL, all items are highlighted but only first one is shown when accessing page I pressume. In my case seems like sometimes it replaces and sometimes it amends. When does your workflow decide when to amend or when to replace when using hotkey? I can only see 'replace_previous' being set when doing universal action, but probably I am overlooking it 😅

[vitor]

It always appends with the Hotkey.

[vitor]

Updated to 2024.3.

When appending, remove all fragments before attempting to add text fragments.