ericohlsen Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 I am trying to create a workflow to send either the URL of the current page or the url on my clipboard to Chrome with "cache" prepended onto it. I've seen several workflows to open the current page in Chrome, and I created a snippet to form the final url (cache:http://....), but, when I've tried to add cache: to the URL field in several options, it just opens a blank Chrome window. Any help would be much appreciated! Link to comment
jdfwarrior Posted March 19, 2014 Share Posted March 19, 2014 I am trying to create a workflow to send either the URL of the current page or the url on my clipboard to Chrome with "cache" prepended onto it. I've seen several workflows to open the current page in Chrome, and I created a snippet to form the final url (cache:http://....), but, when I've tried to add cache: to the URL field in several options, it just opens a blank Chrome window. Any help would be much appreciated! Could you potentially share the workflow that you've created so that we could take a look at it and see where you might be going wrong with it? Link to comment
ericohlsen Posted March 19, 2014 Author Share Posted March 19, 2014 Sure, David. I couldn't figure out what to do with the snippet once I created it, so it just exists. Both of these workflows just open a blank Chrome window. The first thing I tried was: Hotkey Action: Pass through to workflow Argument: OS X Clipboard contents Prefix: cache: leading to: Open URL URL: {query} Browser: Chrome The second thing I tried was Keyword Keyword: cache (with space) (argument required) leading to: Open URL URL: cache:{query} Browser: Chrome Thanks! Link to comment
jdfwarrior Posted March 21, 2014 Share Posted March 21, 2014 Sure, David. I couldn't figure out what to do with the snippet once I created it, so it just exists. Both of these workflows just open a blank Chrome window. The first thing I tried was: Hotkey Action: Pass through to workflow Argument: OS X Clipboard contents Prefix: cache: leading to: Open URL URL: {query} Browser: Chrome The second thing I tried was Keyword Keyword: cache (with space) (argument required) leading to: Open URL URL: cache:{query} Browser: Chrome Thanks! Is the result you are looking for the same as navigating to this? http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://digg.com It opens a cached version of the site passed in the q variable. If so, then you could just create a custom search for alfred that adds the url into the url above and would work. Link to comment
ericohlsen Posted March 21, 2014 Author Share Posted March 21, 2014 Bingo! Thank you! Link to comment
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