Alzibro (a simple Alfred Zip browser)

[odapg]

Hello,

Here is a workflow that I originally made to browse my personal ZIP archive files.
I publish it in case someone else could find it useful!

Any comments/bug reports/suggestions welcome.

 

You can find the source and the first release here : https://github.com/odapg/alzibro
 

 

Alzibro — A simple Alfred ZIP browser

 

Introduction

Alzibro in an Alfred 5 workflow that allows browsing a ZIP file without fully opening it: navigate the hierarchy and extract individual files/folders.

 

Usage

• Go to the configuration window to set options,
• Use the keyword (defined in the configuration) to call the workflow and then indicate the ZIP file,
   
  or 
• Apply the Universal Action 'Browse ZIP file' to a selected ZIP archive.

 

then

• Navigate with ↑, ↓, ↩ (open a folder) and ⇧↩ (go backwards in the hierarchy), 
• Possibly search by name,
  
• Unzip a particular file/folder with ⌘↩.

 

Remarks

• Alzibro does not modify the ZIP file in any way,
• It tries to recover macos' metadata (tags, etc.) together with the file.

 

Changelog

• 1.0 → 1.1: changed ↵ to ↩ in the configuration window and in the hints, changed the 'destination folder' field in the workflow by using a File Picker
  (thanks to @vitor for the suggestions)
• 1.1 → 1.2: bug correction 

Edited Saturday at 04:58 PM by odapg
Changelog

[vitor]

Thank you for sharing, @odapg. A couple of suggestions for improvement:

• Don’t use a Text Area for the Destination Folder, it’s the wrong tool for the job. Use instead a File Picker, which exists exactly for that purpose. Make it work only for folders.
• I recommend you always use ↩ and not ↵, for accessibility reasons. If you want to see why that’s important, enable VoiceOver and select each of these pieces of text: ⇧↩ / ⇧↵. On the first one, it correctly reads it as “shift return”. On the second one, it’s read as “shift downwards arrow with corner leftwards”.
  

[odapg]

Thank you @vitor for the insightful remarks!
 

I updated the workflow by changing ↵ to ↩ everywhere (this is indeed a good advice — I did not know about that), and I also modified my original post correspondingly. I also replaced the Text Field with a File Picker for the destination folder in the configuration window. That's indeed clearly better suited!

 

A small remark concerning the symbol ↵: to write it, I used the !!return snippet from the Mac Symbols snippets collection I found on Alfred's website 😀. Maybe this could be modified as well?

[Vero]

On 11/29/2024 at 8:17 PM, odapg said:

A small remark concerning the symbol ↵: to write it, I used the !!return snippet from the Mac Symbols snippets collection I found on Alfred's website 😀. Maybe this could be modified as well?

 

@odapg The Mac symbols snippet pack has now been updated to use the better ↩