One workflow for searching across emoji and unicode characters?

[chriscalo]

There are great workflows for searching for unicode characters and emoji, the distinction between the two is somewhat arbitrary. Are there any workflows out there that search across both unicode characters and emoji?

[deanishe]

Yeah. I kinda have one: https://github.com/deanishe/alfred-unicode
 
It's still very alpha, however. I've no idea if it even works on anyone's machine but mine.

[raguay.customct]

Just you system. I give me this:

 

Starting debug for 'Unicode Characters'

[ERROR: alfred.workflow.input.scriptfilter] Code 1: 09:27:57 workflow.py:1972 DEBUG    Workflow version : 0.1.0
09:27:57 workflow.py:1646 DEBUG    Cached data saved at : /Users/raguay/Library/Caches/com.runningwithcrayons.Alfred-2/Workflow Data/net.deanishe.alfred-unicode/last-query.cpickle
09:27:57 characters.py:117 DEBUG    50 results for `s`
09:27:57 characters.py:231 INFO     50 results for `s` in 0.072 seconds
09:27:57 workflow.py:1387 DEBUG    Reading settings from `/Users/raguay/Library/Application Support/Alfred 2/Workflow Data/net.deanishe.alfred-unicode/settings.json` ...
09:27:57 icons.py:37 DEBUG    Generating 50 icons...
09:27:57 icons.py:51 DEBUG    cmd : ['/Volumes/Users/daj/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/IconGenerationHelper-bbowvswngqbbjugdvgdqtwpjvgdp/Build/Products/Debug/IconGen', '--outputdir', '/Users/raguay/Library/Application Support/Alfred 2/Workflow Data/net.deanishe.alfred-unicode/icons', '--font', 'ArialUnicodeMS', '--size', '256', '--logfile', '/Users/raguay/Library/Caches/com.runningwithcrayons.Alfred-2/Workflow Data/net.deanishe.alfred-unicode/net.deanishe.alfred-unicode.log']
09:27:57 workflow.py:1990 ERROR    [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/raguay/Dropbox (Personal)/Richard/rag/Alfred/Sync/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows/user.workflow.163952ED-A8FB-4341-B0E6-6FD9CA0F65AC/workflow/workflow.py", line 1983, in run
    func(self)
  File "characters.py", line 252, in main
    size=wf.settings.get('size'))
  File "/Users/raguay/Dropbox (Personal)/Richard/rag/Alfred/Sync/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows/user.workflow.163952ED-A8FB-4341-B0E6-6FD9CA0F65AC/icons.py", line 55, in generate_icons
    stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 710, in __init__
    errread, errwrite)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 1335, in _execute_child
    raise child_exception
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
09:27:57 workflow.py:2008 DEBUG    Workflow finished in 0.123 seconds.
[iNFO: alfred.workflow.input.scriptfilter] <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<items><item valid="no"><title>Error in workflow 'net.deanishe.alfred-unicode'</title><subtitle>[Errno 2] No such file or directory</subtitle><icon>/System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources/AlertStopIcon.icns</icon></item></items>

[deanishe]

Whoops. That was a dumb one.
 
I've updated the repo with a (hopefully) fixed version. Or you can just remove line 90 of config.py that redefines the helper path to point to my build folder

[raguay.customct]

Yep. That did the job. Thanks.

[deanishe]

It works?

 

That's actually surprising… I guess I should think about finishing off the workflow, then. The hard bit appears to be done.