nikitavoloboev/alfred-web-searches

Alfred workflow to search through any website (easily extendable list)

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alfred-web-searches's Issues

Add google searches by site

By month/year and so on.

Allow for user's custom searches to be added. Persist them across updates.

Download and cache the websites.csv searches from GitHub

Support picking browser

Feature ✨

Based on this forum post

Was thinking that it would be nice if we could add a keyword that allowed us to pick the browser, for example maybe I default to Chrome, but I can add a prefix / postfix / something where I say firefox

Why: People use different browsers for different things sometimes, even worse if you use multi profile in Chrome

use goreleaser

should release the alfred workflow file in workflow dir

Uppercase all entries

Updating doesn't work well

AwGo thinks the latest update is v2.4 and not v2.5

add logo

Make special arguments for Reddit, Stack Exchange

Can you add more details on how to use this

I thought I would be able to open alfred and type in a query like d: rust actix and it would search the rust docs for query=actix.

But that doesn't seem to be the case. I had to set up a shortcut inside the extension in alfred, and that only seems to search for things that I have selected with my mouse.

What if I know a word I want to search for that I don't have written down yet so I can't select it with my mouse?

URL encode queries

Currently it doesn't seem to break things but still needs to be added so it works properly 100 % of times.

create algorithm for making a search actionable

given an url with {query} where the user's query will be, it will swap this {query} with url friendly query

add auto update

add modifier to scope searches to recent (reddit, stack)

add action to open websites.csv in user's editor

Check git repos workflow to see how to do it

add some more haskell websites

Read the websites.csv file occasionally and cache it.

Doesn't work on macOS Catalina

Bug Summary 🐞

When calling workflow from extarnal trigger or keyword, I receive this window:

I have the Gatekeeper disabled.
macOS v10.15

add custom icons to to prefixes

i.e. r: = reddit logo, g: = github logo and so on

Search in google by URL

Feature ✨

In google you can do a query and search only specific site. Add that as modifier key search on the results.

Read the file and update the file periodically from GitHub

Check occasionally if .csv file was changed, and if it was download it to user's workflow directory.

So all users have the latests links.