Call Alfred as Subroutine (in Keyboard Maestro)

[Oli F]

This is quite niche, but it was interesting to figure out.

 

There might be an occasion you're creating an automation in another app like Keyboard Maestro or BetterTouchTool but want to make use of Alfred's search as part of that macro.

 

This is an example workflow that returns its output in a variable to Keyboard Maestro.

 

For example, run a macro in Keyboard Maestro, an action will call Alfred as a subroutine, and wait for it to return the file path of the search.

 

More details here:

Keyboard Maestro Discourse: Call Alfred as a Subroutine

[vitor]

Nice interoperability! For those “following along at home”, the objects are, in oder: External Trigger; Arg and Vars Utility; JSON Utility; File Filter Input; Run Script Action; Post Notification Output.

Small note, there’s a typo in the comment for the Run Script (reutrn).