Alfred Extensions: The best scripts (so far!)

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1. 

   tguidon August 2, 2011 at 5:08 pm

   This is awesome. Can’t wait for the full page.

2. 

   Ingmar Hupp August 2, 2011 at 5:54 pm

   Add Task to The Hit List.app:
   http://dl.dropbox.com/u/136288/The%20Hit%20List.alfredextension

3. 

   lucascimino August 2, 2011 at 6:31 pm

   Amazing !!! ;D

4. 

   Brian Edwards August 2, 2011 at 6:42 pm

   how do recover my powerpack after total reinstall?

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     Vero August 2, 2011 at 6:57 pm

     You can recover your details here: http://help.alfredapp.com/recoveryourlicense

     If you’ve lost the Google Checkout receipt, you can log in to http://checkout.google.com to view it on the web.

5. 

   Ben Smith August 2, 2011 at 8:07 pm

   Alfred extensions for Heap CRM:

   http://knowledgebase.wbpsystems.com/content/Using_Heap_CRM_from_Alfred

   Adds the ability to (complete/create/list/search/export ) (events/history/stats/prospects/people/templates) — and all of the possible permutations of those two lists.

   Alfred extension for Torch Project Management:

   http://knowledgebase.wbpsystems.com/content/Using_Torch_Project_Management_from_Alfred

   Adds the ability to (complete/create/list/export) (time/expenses/events/payments/invoices) — and all of the possible permutations of those two lists.

6. 

   Francesco Turci August 2, 2011 at 8:42 pm

   I would suggest a simple quicklook extension, waiting for a better integration in Alfred itself:

   qlmanage -p {query}

   Make the script extension act on files (tick both Silent and Action marks).

   One can open several quicklook windows ….

7. 

   Paul Calnan August 2, 2011 at 10:15 pm

   Open Terminal Here (AppleScript Extension):
   Opens a Terminal window in the frontmost Finder window’s directory.

   https://github.com/downloads/pcal/alfred-terminal-here/Terminal%20Here.alfredextension

8. 

   Hasse Hansen August 3, 2011 at 7:58 am

   I have another extension which generates a random Lorem Ipsum text and saves it in your clipboard. It uses the http://loripsum.net/ API.

   Try it out http://dl.dropbox.com/u/192313/Ipsum%20Generator.alfredextension

9. 

   revelatorit August 3, 2011 at 8:03 pm

   Start Screen Sharing (AppleScript extension):

   http://grapefruitmoon.net/screen-sharing-with-alfreds-help

10. 

    adamhorner August 4, 2011 at 3:02 am

    @Francesco Turci

    Way ahead of you dude:

    http://techpragmatist.co.uk/content/quicklook-alfred

11. 

    adamhorner August 4, 2011 at 3:24 am

    Just added a new extension for running Applescripts out of your ~/Library/Scripts folder:

    http://techpragmatist.co.uk/content/applescripts-and-alfred

12. 

    alexwlchan August 4, 2011 at 9:27 am

    I’ve got two I can share. The first is a thing for toggling Bluetooth. Download “blueutil” from http://www.frederikseiffert.de/blueutil/ and install it (just open the “install” file on the disk image), then use the script described by spazek in this thread http://discussions.apple.com/thread/3179367 to toggle Bluetooth on or off.

    Second is similar, but for Wi-fi. Change
    1. “usr/local/bin/blueutil” for “networksetup -setairportpower en0”, and
    2. (do shell script blueutilpath & ” status”) for (do shell script “networksetup -getairportpower en0”)
    in Applescript editor, and you’ve got a similar app/script to toggle Wi-fi with.

    Hope these are useful

13. 

    Steffen August 4, 2011 at 1:53 pm

    Alcedo Apple Mail Backup
    http://www.alcedo-backup.de/2011/08/alfred-extension-fur-mailbackup/

    Show Hidden Finder Files
    http://www.firemylazer.de/2011/08/alfred-extensions/

14. 

    bmatheny August 4, 2011 at 3:45 pm

    Spotify integration: http://tumblr.mobocracy.net/post/8473375264/alfred-meet-spotify

15. 

    nutz321 August 4, 2011 at 11:48 pm

    Force empty the current user’s trash:
    http://habibalamin.com/wp-content/uploads/projects/FEmp.alfredextension

16. 

    dfay August 5, 2011 at 7:06 am

    @adamhorner is there any way to get the quicklook extension to produce a preview that responds to esc? I am in the habit of hitting esc to clear a quicklook preview & needing to use a mouse-click to dismiss it is a bit awkward.

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      adamhorner August 5, 2011 at 5:14 pm

      The only way I know of is to upgrade to Lion!

      I never did discover a way to get the QL window to dismiss in Snow Leopard other than by pressing the little X in the top left corner. Sorry.

17. 

    Steffen August 5, 2011 at 12:20 pm

    @nutz321: You can´t perform a sudo command within the alfred shell extensions.

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      nutz321 August 5, 2011 at 1:23 pm

      Ah, my bad!

18. 

    Steffen August 5, 2011 at 12:41 pm

    MD5 Decrypter
    http://www.firemylazer.de/2011/08/alfred-extensions/

    md5 + hash = profit!

19. 

    commondream August 5, 2011 at 12:48 pm

    I wrote up a set of extensions to control Rdio:

    http://commondream.net/post/8512275636/alfred-extensions

    It would be really nice if there were a good way to create extensions with multiple actions.

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      ps August 10, 2011 at 4:29 am

      I totally agree — I found myself wishing the same thing putting together a controller for spotify, though I am really liking the extension framework so far…

20. 

    Zachary Yocum August 5, 2011 at 8:37 pm

    Here are a couple simple shell scripts for hiding and unhiding files in Finder. Check the boxes for both silent and action.

    To set a file as hidden:
    setfile -a V {query}

    To set a file as visible:
    setfile -a v {query}

21. 

    Ingmar Hupp August 5, 2011 at 10:06 pm

    View man page in browser (requires man2html: brew install man2html):
    http://dl.dropbox.com/u/136288/man2html.alfredextension

22. 

    alan August 7, 2011 at 6:35 pm

    Quickly add to-do items to a short list: http://www.schussman.com/article/using-alfred-to-manage-tasks

23. 

    Steffen August 8, 2011 at 2:10 pm

    Random Password Generator
    http://www.firemylazer.de/2011/08/alfred-extensions/

    Usage: randompw + size

24. 

    ErrolC August 9, 2011 at 12:22 am

    Copy and paste this as an applescript.

    Thought I’d share it.

    #For setting the rating of the currently playing song in itunes
    #Ratings [0|20|40|60|80|100] or on percentage

    on alfred_script(q)
    tell application “iTunes”
    set rating of current track to q
    end tell
    end alfred_script

25. 

    seapy August 9, 2011 at 4:33 pm

    Bluetooth Toggle Extension http://seapy.com/1779
    don’t need install other application.
    it’s run with python and mac(mac default install python)

26. 

    David Valdez August 10, 2011 at 4:01 am

    Hi.

    Exists documentation about how make alfred extensions?

    I want to create a extension where the user be able to choice a option from the results box (where my extension will provide this results) and the extensions will use this as the {query} for do something, is this possible in this moment?

27. 

    rt August 10, 2011 at 4:26 am

    I wrapped some of the spotify applescript controls in this extension (allows for view track info, pause, play, next, previous, mute, unmute):

    plasticstare.com/plasticware/alfred/spotifycontrollerextension.zip

28. 

    Jeff Johns August 10, 2011 at 8:30 pm

    Another spotify example. Complete with every control, track information, and growl notifications with album artwork icon. Enjoy.

    https://github.com/phpfunk/alfred-spotify-controls

29. 

    Kim Lokøy August 12, 2011 at 1:56 pm

    One more way to control Spotify from alfred. Download from github: https://github.com/klokoy/Spotify-Alfred-scripts

30. 

    Tiago August 12, 2011 at 2:39 pm

    Anyone knows if there is a way to interface ms communicator 2011 and Alfred ? It would be nice to be able to type the name of the person we want to chat with.

31. 

    blargh August 13, 2011 at 3:51 pm

    A plist search filter.
    http://cl.ly/9HZs

32. 

    Scott Murray August 15, 2011 at 4:58 am

    Initiate Skype calls from Alfred!

    http://alignedleft.com/projects/2011/Call%20with%20Skype.alfredextension.zip

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      Kevin August 26, 2011 at 1:08 pm

      Skype chats from Alfred!

      http://kevink.info/projects/alfred/skype_chat.alfredextension

      Simply type “- [first few letters of person's first name] [message]”

      It searches your Address Book contacts by first name and then looks at the “Nickname” field to find the contact’s Skype username. You’ll have to manually enter these by going to the Address Book menu Card > Add Field > Nickname

      I would like it to (in the future):
      - search skype for users by contact’s email address
      - set an option flag to focus on skype chat after sending – right now it just sends it.

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      KP August 30, 2011 at 3:58 pm

      Doesn’t work very well under Lion. Skype opens up hundreds of windows confirming the s the security. When it does make a call it seems to do it in the background and you can’t hang up the call.

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        Scott Murray September 1, 2011 at 3:28 pm

        Yes! I’m on Snow Leopard, but for me, Skype sometimes also opens a few confirmation dialogs. (“Do you want to allow AppleScript to access Skype…?”) If you select “always allow” that shouldn’t happen anymore.

        And yes, making the call in the background could be considered a feature, not a bug. But you could add “tell Skype / activate / end tell” if you want it to pop to the foreground. I prefer to keep Skype in the background, as I don’t usually want to look at it while I’m talking.

        As for hanging up, I’ll have to make a separate “hang up” script.

33. 

    YJ Soon August 16, 2011 at 3:32 am

    Here’s an extension to toggle your proxy (requires Lion; minor changes needed for Snow Leopard): http://yj.sg/qaTV1G

34. 

    Scotsman August 16, 2011 at 4:24 pm

    Don’t suppose anyone could knock up an extension for adding Reminders to iCal via a hotkey?

    TIA

35. 

    David Valdez August 17, 2011 at 5:14 pm

    Open AirDrop from Alfred.

    http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1720494/Open%20Airport.alfredextension

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      David Valdez August 17, 2011 at 5:18 pm

      Wrong link, this is the good one:

      http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1720494/Open%20AirDrop.alfredextension

36. 

    Nick August 20, 2011 at 9:53 pm

    Here are a few more I just made after purchasing alfred’s powerpack a few days ago. I’m working on replacing my favorite features of quicksilver that haven’t reached alfred yet. Includes reminders and easy dropbox sharing of files and screenshots.

    http://nicolasartman.com/alfred_extensions

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      Zachary Yocum August 23, 2011 at 8:26 pm

      Thanks for the extensions Nicolas, one small bug I’ve noticed is that when I make a reminder set for a 1 minute delay and then list my reminders, it states the reminder as 180 mins away. The reminder still displays after a 1 minute delay. Can you reproduce this?

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        Tiago August 23, 2011 at 9:05 pm

        You have to reveal in the finder the script allowing you to list the reminders and change the timezone. Default time zone is “America/Los_Angeles” time. Once you changed this to the same time zone as your system, the time will be displayed correctly.

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        Nick August 24, 2011 at 5:47 am

        Hi Zachary. As tiago noticed, this was an error with my timezone setting which I have now fixed (along with a couple other bugs). I posted the new versions of my extensions on my site so please update to those when you have a chance and that should fix things!

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        Zachary Yocum August 24, 2011 at 2:42 pm

        I tried changing the time zone in the php script, but it still isn’t displaying the time correctly when listing notifications. I live on the east coast of the US so I tried both America/New_York and America/Boston, but neither work (Los_Angeles makes the times too early, New_York and Boston make the times 2 hours late). My machine’s time is set automatically from the Date & Time system preference pane which displays my correct location from the location services. The other issue I had was I had to add an echo “/n”; to the list script because it was not putting line breaks in between reminders. Another suggestion I have, if you are intent on working on this more, would be to add the ability to create a reminder at a specific time (maybe making use of the unix ‘at’ command. I made some shell scripts (http://cl.ly/0Z322M28332O050I3p1V) to regain reminder support after switching from Alfred to Quicksilver, but they are different from yours and I’m not as proficient a scripter as you so I didn’t know how to show a list of reminders once they were created (though the ‘at’ command has a way to show anything created by it). You can contact me at philofrog@gmail.com for a better communication channel.

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      Nick August 24, 2011 at 7:31 am

      Hi Zachary – glad you found the extensions useful! As Tiago noticed there was a timezone setting error on my part that I have now fixed (along with a bunch of other display bugs). Please download all of the reminder extensions again when you have a chance and they should work much better now.

37. 

    Bob August 21, 2011 at 7:35 pm

    I created an currency converter extensions for Alfred based on Google Currency Converter.
    A default target currency can be set in the script (default = EUR), and the extension can be used in different ways:
    convert 1 GBP to EUR
    convert 1.234 USD GBP
    convert 2.345 SEK
    (-> the last one converts to the default currency)

    https://github.com/downloads/theFeverDog/alfredextensions/CurrencyConverter.alfredextension

38. 

    Eric Newcomer August 24, 2011 at 8:43 am

    Extension for controlling Napster music player:

    http://eric.newcomer.org/control-napster-player-using-alfred

    Supports play, pause, next, previous, save track, remove track, view album, etc.

39. 

    John Franey September 1, 2011 at 2:35 am

    I’ve thrown together a bunch of extensions over the past few days (my appologies if any of these have already been made):

    - Appender: Append the specified line of text to the end of the selected file in Finder
    - CharPalette: Show the OS X character palette
    - CopyPath: Get the POSIX path of the selected item in Finder, then copy it to the clipboard
    - FileFromClip: Create a text file in the active Finder window and write the clipboard contents to that file
    - ReplaceInFile: Find and replace the specified text in the selected file
    - Symlinker: Create symbolic link(s) to the selected Finder items in the chosen folder
    - TerminalHere: Open a Terminal with the frontmost Finder window as the working directory
    - TerminalHere&&: Open a Terminal with the frontmost Finder window as the working directory and run the specified shell command
    - Touch: Create a blank file in the active Finder window
    - Uploader: Upload the selected Finder items to the specified folder in your webspace

    If you’re interested, you can check them out at my website!

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      Fabian May 17, 2012 at 3:17 am

      These look awesome. However, your website didn’t seem to be working

      http://johnfraney.ca/projects/AlfredExtensions/index.html

40. 

    Mitchell Weholt September 2, 2011 at 6:52 pm

    Just got this one working…. it’s an extension that allows will play a track in Spotify without having to select it and play. just give Alfred a track name and artist and it will play it automatically.

    http://cl.ly/2e1X333U2p09303Z0s47

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      Mitchell Weholt September 2, 2011 at 6:59 pm

      oh, you also need XML tools for this to work.

      http://goo.gl/7rNKG

41. 

    Daniel Schildt September 2, 2011 at 10:59 pm

    There are several errors in script for getting current IP address to the clipboard.

    Working version:

    curl -silent http://checkip.dyndns.org | grep -Eo “([0-9]{1,3}\.){3}[0-9]{1,3}” | pbcopy

42. 

    Panrubius September 7, 2011 at 5:38 pm

    I made my very first Alfred extension, it creates a blank MultiMarkdown file in a particular folder that you can specify. Grab it here: https://github.com/panrubius/create-new-multimarkdown-file

43. 

    Nick Tidey September 12, 2011 at 11:30 pm

    In lieu of a better place to write this. I thought I’d share a nice delicious / Alfred integration.

    Download and install delimport from here: https://github.com/ssp/delimport
    Delimport saves your delicious bookmarks in the following folder:
    /Users//Library/Metadata/delimport

    Create a search filter extension with that directory as the search scope using a keyword like ‘b’. Then you’ll be able to search your delicious bookmarks by title with ‘b ‘. Now for the kicker: on the advanced tab add a metadata field ‘kMDItemKeywords’ and you’ll be able to search by tag!

    • 

      Nick Tidey September 12, 2011 at 11:32 pm

      The comment sanitation ate some of my text. Let’s try this again:

      Delimport’s save directory is:
      “/Users/{username}/Library/Metadata/delimport”

44. 

    Tobi September 24, 2011 at 12:31 am

    I created to extensions:

    1. Calculate the golden ratio with Alfred
    http://www.tobias-weh.de/alfred-goldenratio.zip

    2. Call texdoc from Alfred to open (La)TeX-manuals
    http://www.tobias-weh.de/alfred-td.zip

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      Tobi September 24, 2011 at 9:01 pm

      I made an update to Golden Ratio (same link) it’s now able to past the result to your clipboard

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      Tobi October 15, 2011 at 11:41 pm

      I deleted the ZIP-Files from my server, pleas send me an e-mail if you like to get it …

45. 

    Phillip Lanclos September 28, 2011 at 4:23 am

    Not sure if anyone will find this useful here but I use this script a whole bunch. I have a Time Capsule at my house that I have to connect to before opening up iTunes because all my music is there so I made a simple way of doing this. The script takes no parameters so you’ll have to change the script itself for it to work for you.

    http://cl.ly/AUQa

46. 

    Mark September 29, 2011 at 4:17 pm

    I made an extension that takes the path of a file you want to share and then spits out a shortened link to the file now hosted on Dropbox. It uses Goo.gl in case you were curious.

    Presently I’ve got to use the “Copy file path to clipboard” option in Alfred’s file browser and then paste it after the keyword in a new Alfred instance. Is there a way to add this script directly to the file browser?

    If you want the script just ask.

47. 

    Kevin October 7, 2011 at 2:47 pm

    Send Skype chat messages from Alfred: http://classyllama.com/productivity/send-skype-messages-with-alfred-extension/

48. 

    Lane October 12, 2011 at 8:02 pm

    I love this app.

49. 

    Joel Gillman October 24, 2011 at 5:37 pm

    I made an Adium extension pack based off of @simonbs’s scripts. It includes a lot of shortcuts and optionally starts your screen saver when going away to secure your computer.
    http://cl.ly/BE4p

50. 

    Zia November 24, 2011 at 4:06 am

    Force Empty Trash with command fempty.
    http://cl.ly/C5dj

51. 

    Jan Jones November 29, 2011 at 3:49 pm

    Here is a 1Password search extension i knocked up:

    http://cl.ly/1123431z1I0o1r1N350s

    Very basic (and you have to disable the master password) but works nicely.

    • 

      Jan Jones December 1, 2011 at 2:48 am

      Updated link for 1Password extension: http://blog.oozou.com/post/13503001092/1password-extension-for-alfred

52. 

    Andrew Proudlove December 7, 2011 at 2:57 pm

    I modified the Open in Firefox extension at Snipt.com to open the link in Chrome instead, mainly because I don’t use Firefox and sometimes need to open stuff in Chrome instead of Firefox, usually due to its flash support.

    For now you can grab it from my blog at http://aproudlove.squarespace.com.

    Cheers,

    Andrew

53. 

    Hugues BR January 4, 2012 at 5:55 pm

    A simple hipchat extension.
    Allow you to send hip chat message directly from Alfred (require an Admin API Token)

    http://cl.ly/1K2Z403A0q3a1B1W332e

54. 

    Scott Lee January 13, 2012 at 6:38 pm

    I created a few extensions (http://bit.ly/AA2VVH) that control Google Music when using Chrome.

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