Advanced Drupal Workflow for Alfred V2

Submitted by Brian Gilbert on March 15, 2013 - 12:18pm

I've been a longtime fan of Alfred App, an award-winning productivity application for Mac OS X.

They've just released Alfred v2 which is re-written from the ground up to be faster, more efficient and easier to use, as a powerpack user of V1 I've been beta testing it for several months now.

Alfred 2 has a new replacement for extensions called workflows and I have written a Drupal workflow that handles the Drupal API integration in a much faster way than the old Version 1 extension.

Along the way I found a bug in the api modules handling of function dumps which is now fixed and live on api.drupal.org thanks to jhodgdon, verified that this workflow causes less requests to api.drupal.org than the Alfred V1 extension, and generally had a lot of fun debugging things until it was working properly.

This workflow caches the Drupal api function list's locally and shows the variables that the function expects to receive as well, hitting enter opens the relevant page on api.drupal.org.

Usage

Drupal API lookup
d5 [substring_of-hook]  (cached for 90 days)
d6 [substring_of-hook]  (cached for 90 days)
d7 [substring_of-hook]  (cached for 30 days)
d8 [substring_of-hook]  (cached for 2 days)

g.d.o
dg [nid or group]

d.o
do [nid or project]

Search Drupal site network
ds [string to search]

Drupal user
du [user id or name]

Drush (drush as per Alfred v1 Drupal plugin)
dd d [command]  (a Drush alias with a Drush command command Action - Invokes Drush
dd o [command]  (a Drush alias Action - Opens the URI associated with the Drush alias in a browser)

Download the Advanced Drupal workflow now

See it in action

Tags: 
drupal planet
drupal
os x

Comments

Submitted by Manu on March 15, 2013 - 8:34pm.

Great workflow, thanks! Just bought the powerpack just for this. Please share any update/addition :-)

Submitted by Zhang Xiao on March 15, 2013 - 9:31pm.

Great! How do you customize the font in alfred?

Submitted by Brian Gilbert on March 16, 2013 - 7:46am.

Themes: http://www.alfredforum.com/forum/4-v2-themes/

Submitted by Gijs on March 16, 2013 - 12:43am.

This seems an interesting application. Once downloaded its an extension less file. Is it an executable ? Do I have to mark it as such using terminal ?

Submitted by Brian Gilbert on March 16, 2013 - 7:46am.

The extension should be '.alfredworkflow' You need the alfred powerpack to be able to use it.

Submitted by kostajh on March 16, 2013 - 1:04am.

This is great. Thanks for sharing the workflow!

Submitted by dstol on March 16, 2013 - 3:24am.

This is likely going to be incorporated into the d.o project.

http://drupal.org/node/1943394#comment-7182668

Submitted by Damon Haley on March 16, 2013 - 3:30am.

Hi, thanks for your Drupal Alfred workflow. It seems really useful.

But, when I try any of the Drupal version search API scripts, I get the message, "Please wait while I cache the API list."

The caching never finishes (or begins?) as I always get the same message. Is there a way to manually run the caching process or debug why I can't get past this step?

Thanks,

Damon

Submitted by Brian Gilbert on March 16, 2013 - 7:45am.

Hi Damon.. Which api version were you querying at the time?

Submitted by Deshi on March 16, 2013 - 10:54pm.

Yeah, having the same problem d7 api

Submitted by Meric One on March 18, 2013 - 8:47am.

I bought alfred just because I read this article and I am afraid I get a timeout issue for any Drupal API search query, too. Anyone have a solution? Anything else works well - keep up the good work.

Alfred2 on Mac OSX 10.6.8

Submitted by Brian Gilbert on March 18, 2013 - 8:50am.

I've been able to replicate this intermittently, I am looking into it further.

Submitted by Per Sandström on March 22, 2013 - 10:04pm.

Great! Thanks a lot!

Could you include a search for drupalcontrib.org as well? That's what I'm currently missing out from my old Alfred 1 setup.

Submitted by bleen on April 6, 2013 - 12:33pm.

I modified this workflow by adding a "df" action which opens the url:
http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/developer%21topics%21forms_api_referenc...{query}