Batch workflow metadata update and export

[jeffsui]

I've created a handful for workflows that we use at my office and I would love to have an easy way to batch export and update the metadata so that i can share them with people. 

 

Right now when i make a change export the workflow to disk and email it to people.  It would be great if there was some way to automate this or script this out.  so i could just run

 

alfred -package workflow_name outputFile

 

and then upload the workflows to an internal server or something like that.

 

It this possible or just wishful thinking?

 

Thanks

 

[deanishe]

Here's the build script I use.
 
It's tailored to Python and the Alfred-Workflow library, so you'd probably want to change it (i.e. it excludes Python-specific files from the build and reads the workflow version number from a version file, which Alfred-Workflow expects to be present).

[jeffsui]

So I ran your script and it seemed to still be picking up my .git directory which is odd.

 

I added 

        dirnames[:] = [d for d in dirnames if not d in ['.git','.idea']]

right after this block of code

 

 # build workflow
    command = [u'zip']
    if not verbose:
        command.append(u'-q')
    command.append(zippath)
    for root, dirnames, filenames in os.walk(u'.'):
   

and it worked for me.  Not sure if this is helpful feedback - but

Edited August 31, 2016 by jeffsui

[deanishe]

Yeah. I keep my workflows code in a subdirectory of the repo. That way I can symlink it to Dropbox safely.

Putting a .git directory in Dropbox can have unwanted consequences.