Welcome to Alfred-Workflow

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Alfred-Workflow is a Python helper library for Alfred 2, 3 and 4 workflow authors, developed and hosted on GitHub.

Alfred workflows typically take user input, fetch data from the Web or elsewhere, filter them and display results to the user. Alfred-Workflow takes care of a lot of the details for you, allowing you to concentrate your efforts on your workflow’s functionality.

Alfred-Workflow supports macOS 10.7+ (Python 2.7).

Features

Alfred 3+ features

Quick example

Here’s how to show recent Pinboard.in posts in Alfred.

Create a new workflow in Alfred’s preferences. Add a Script Filter with Language /usr/bin/python and paste the following into the Script box (changing API_KEY):

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import sys
from workflow import Workflow, ICON_WEB, web
# To use Alfred 3+ feedback mechanism:
# from workflow import Workflow3

API_KEY = 'your-pinboard-api-key'

def main(wf):
    url = 'https://api.pinboard.in/v1/posts/recent'
    params = dict(auth_token=API_KEY, count=20, format='json')
    r = web.get(url, params)
    r.raise_for_status()
    for post in r.json()['posts']:
        wf.add_item(post['description'], post['href'], arg=post['href'],
                    uid=post['hash'], valid=True, icon=ICON_WEB)
    wf.send_feedback()


if __name__ == u"__main__":
    wf = Workflow()
    sys.exit(wf.run(main))

Add an Open URL action to your workflow with {query} as the URL, connect your Script Filter to it, and you can now hit ENTER on a Pinboard item in Alfred to open it in your browser.

Warning

Using the above example code as a workflow will likely get you banned by the Pinboard API. See the Tutorial if you want to build an API terms-compliant (and super-fast) Pinboard workflow.