Alfred feedback - Display web image as XML Icon?

[smirky]

Is there currently a way to use a link to an icon (say, "http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/34/71168880.png") as the Icon arg for an Alfred XML feedback item?

 

I know that I can download the image temporarily and use it, but it would pretty nice to not have to do that all the time. Especially when querying a web service API that provides the direct links in its returned XML.

 

Long shot question but worth asking, I hope.

[jdfwarrior]

Is there currently a way to use a link to an icon (say, "http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/34/71168880.png") as the Icon arg for an Alfred XML feedback item?

 

I know that I can download the image temporarily and use it, but it would pretty nice to not have to do that all the time. Especially when querying a web service API that provides the direct links in its returned XML.

 

Long shot question but worth asking, I hope.

 

Unfortunately, right now there isn't. I'm not sure if Andrew has plans to add this in the future or not. He's definitely aware of the developers desire for it though.

[smirky]

Thought that was the answer, since I hadn't seen anyone do it differently. Thanks for giving me an 'official' answer, though. 

[mikeswimm]

I'd just like to voice my opinion in favor of being able to directly link to an image as well. 

 

I have a API reading workflow nearly done. It was nearly instantaneous until I had to deal with saving resource icons locally. Not it's a lot slower than I'd like. 

[Andrew]

I'm aware how useful this will be and it's definitely on my list