File/Folder search Script Filters

[peelman]

So one of my peeves with Alfred and one of the edges I felt Quicksilver held against it was the ability to index just a folder, recursively to a defined level, and search those results.  I keep all my media out on a NAS and having spotlight index those volumes just doesn't bode well for any of the involved parties, so I could never use Alfred quite like I could Quicksilver for quickly finding a TV show or Movie out on my file server.  Thanks to script filters and some of jdfwarrior's great scripting hints, that's no longer true:

 

require_once('extension_utils.php'); 
$utils = new ExtensionUtils();

$query = urlencode( "{query}" );
$results = array();

$pattern = "/$query/i";

$dir = "/Volumes/video/movies";

if (is_dir($dir)) {
    if ($dh = opendir($dir)) {
        while (($file = readdir($dh)) !== false) {
	        if ($file != "." && $file != ".."  && ($query && preg_match($pattern, $file))) {

				switch(pathinfo("$dir/$file", PATHINFO_EXTENSION)):
					case 'mkv': $icon = 'MKV.png'; break;
					case 'avi': $icon = 'AVI.png'; break;
					case 'm4v': 
					case 'mp4': $icon = 'M4V.png'; break;
					default: $icon = 'movie.png'; break;
				endswitch;				

				$item = array(
					'uid' => 'show',
					'arg' => "$dir/$file",
					'title' => $file,
					'subtitle' => "$dir/$file",
					'icon' => $icon,
					'valid' => 'true'
				);
				array_push( $results, $item );
			}
        }
		closedir($dh);
    }
}

echo $utils->arrayToXml( $results );

 

 

 

There's no good way (yet) to make this easily configurable, so posting it out as a full workflow for download seems a bit silly at this point, but perhaps this code might help somebody along the way achieve what they need.

[samvlu]

I feel your pain. It's possible for Alfred v1.

By using the file search filter you can search only folders or only images.

I'm working on getting this feature for Alfred 2.

 

[samvlu]

I got it working in Alfred 2!!!

I'm posting a workflow now!!

 

[samvlu]

Here's the link to my post

http://www.alfredforum.com/topic/995-find-folder-—%C2%A0search-by-folder-name-workflow/