Open URL providing a URL directly

[thierrylemoulec]

Hi everyone,

 

I'm currently building a workflow for searching my kippt bookmarks using script filter.

 

The result from the API give me directly an URL that I provide in the XML string I return to alfred, like this :

 

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<items>
  <item uid="kipptsearch" arg="http://another-url.com/test">
    <title>test kippt</title>
    <subtitle>kippt search</subtitle>
    <icon>icon.png</icon>
  </item>
</items>

 

Then I link this to the "Open url" action and add {query} to the search url field. But as you may expected, my url is encoded and then nothing happened. 

 

I would like to really open a url with the "open url" action not simply make a search. Is there a way to do that ?

[simonbs]

That is correct. That will not work currently. However, I'm not sure I agree that it should be changed as that action is meant for searching. If you want to open a specific URL, you could just use an AppleScript.

 

In the current version of Alfred 2.0 you can just add an AppleScript as action and set the contents of the ActionScript to:

on alfred_script(q)
  open location q
end alfred_script

This only works if the URL contains http:// but you can make sure that's add in your trigger or modify the AppleScript to add it if necessary.

[thierrylemoulec]

I'm not saying it should be change, but maybe we can add another field for opening an URL and choose between the two. But for now I will do with the AppleScript thanks for the help simonbs

[judsondunn]

I would like this also, specifically for opening a URL in an alternate browser, I thought the same thing thierrylemoulex mentioned might work also. (mentioning for usability reasons)

 

For example:

 

opera http://example.com

chrome http://example.com

[mwaterfall]

Hey guys, just saw this topic and thought you might be interested in the workflow I just made for searching your Kippt bookmarks!

 

http://www.alfredforum.com/topic/1890-kippt-search-search-your-bookmarks-on-kippt/