vinyldust Posted February 9, 2013 Share Posted February 9, 2013 Hey, As a creative person who uses alfred - I love being able to call up "Define - fantasticexample" ... but another that comes up frequently is me having to log on to thesaurus.com to find other words for fantasticexample. There was a plugin/extension someone wrote for alfred v1 that would search thesaurus.com and return the results in notification centre. Any chance of it being built in to the main function, and display results as an actual window, or list of items (instead of notification centre) or will it be left to become an extension again? Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdfwarrior Posted February 9, 2013 Share Posted February 9, 2013 The person that made that extension would be me I'll get it created as a workflow this weekend and post it in the Share Your Workflows area. Just keep an eye out there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdfwarrior Posted February 9, 2013 Share Posted February 9, 2013 Actually, the initial extension was executed by requesting the url and then scraping the page. It appears that thesaurus.com has an API now but you have to request access to it. So, I'm about to request access now and I'll get you a workflow for it as soon as they grant it to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinyldust Posted February 14, 2013 Author Share Posted February 14, 2013 Oh - That'd be great! I'm decent at plugins and some light setup - but I'm definitely not a code writer... Look forward to seeing what you cook up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinyldust Posted February 14, 2013 Author Share Posted February 14, 2013 BTW, I use a lot of your extensions David - Thanks a lot for expanding some of Alfred's powers. The two combined are stellar! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdfwarrior Posted February 14, 2013 Share Posted February 14, 2013 Thank you sir I still haven't heard back from them about my api access request.. Wonder what's taking them so long.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mccamel Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 Just wanted to throw in that I'd love to see this implemented also! I would find the functionality of "define" (listing results as you type a word) applied to thesaurus entries to be very, very useful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdfwarrior Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 I guess Thesaurus.com/Dictionary.com forgot about me or something. The automated response email I got from them said they would reply within 3 business days. It's been 10. So I'll ping them again and see what the deal is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikedvzo Posted March 24, 2013 Share Posted March 24, 2013 Wondering why this feature cannot just be built into Alfred and just query the built in Thesaurus in the Dictionary.app instead of gong to Dictionary.com ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdfwarrior Posted March 24, 2013 Share Posted March 24, 2013 Wondering why this feature cannot just be built into Alfred and just query the built in Thesaurus in the Dictionary.app instead of gong to Dictionary.com ? Define and spell are. Some people just prefer using the online dictionary because it provides more results. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikedvzo Posted March 24, 2013 Share Posted March 24, 2013 Sorry if I was not totally clear I am talking about building in the Thesaurus function to Alfred along with Define and Spell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaspalx Posted April 19, 2013 Share Posted April 19, 2013 This isn't precisely what was asked for, but is a thesaurus workflow. Please don't laugh at the code, I write applescript by copy-tweaking! Uses thesauras.altervista.org and phyllestein's Alp library. Enjoy! https://www.dropbox.com/s/42st1gjf44ggdmv/Thesaurus.alfredworkflow If anyone makes this nicer/cleaner etc. please let me know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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