Tutorial: Build Your Own: Google as You Type

[Mr Pennyworth]

I recently wrote a tutorial on building a "Google as You Type" workflow using AlfredExtraPane.app: https://github.com/mr-pennyworth/alfred-extra-pane#tutorial-search-google-as-you-type

 

Few examples:

[Alfred0]

WOW - really cool!!

 

Mind sharing how did you do the gmap workflow.

[Mr Pennyworth]

@Alfred0 gmap is same as the one shown in tutorial, but just with the URL change

q="$1"

function urlencode {
  echo -n "$1" \
   | /usr/bin/python3 -c "import sys, urllib.parse; print(urllib.parse.quote_plus(sys.stdin.read()),end='')"
}

url_q=$(urlencode "$1")

cat << EOF
{"items" : [
  {"title": "Search $q",
   "subtitle": "using maps.google.com",
   "arg": "https://www.google.com/maps?q=$url_q",
   "quicklookurl": "https://www.google.com/maps?q=$url_q"}
]}
EOF

 

[dood]

This is super cool @Mr Pennyworth! Thanks for the great tutorial.

 

One question – I've noticed that the app rapidly consumes memory in a short amount of time. Besides restarting the app, would there be another way to have it free up the memory once it's no longer in use (i.e. after I've navigated out of the workflow that activated AlfredExtraPane in the first place)?

 

[Mr Pennyworth]

@dood thanks for flagging the issue!

unfortunately, no ways to do that currently.

I'll have to learn more about swift, webviews, and macOS app programming and debugging in general to get to it, so the fix could be far away

unless, of course, someone sends a pull request 😇