Next in Alfred: Better Script/Extension Support

Alfred Addons

The folks over at @alfredapp have been working their butts off lately getting ready for the upcoming release of Alfred. I’ve been lucky enough to get my hands on an early version of it for some testing and see just what all I can do with the script support. Here’s a few of the things that I’ve come up with so far.

Local Weather

Andrew featured this one a while back showing off some of the capabilities. This one uses my weather service, GtWthr, to pull local weather information and display it via Growl. Setup would be simple. Just import the script, and set your location code in the script. Here’s an sample.

The icons are dynamic as well, so they change based upon the current conditions for your location.

Wolfram|Alpha

I got this idea from another user, super smart guy when it comes to some scripting, a lot of you guys know him as @binaryghost. This extension basically searches Wolfram for the term you enter, and displays the plaintext result using Growl. Here’s a sample.

Create Symbolic Link

This is something that could be achieved through the current versions of Alfred. It’s just a terminal script that is available as an action. You would simply select file/folder you want via Alfred, press the hotkey to access result actions, and select Create Symbolic Link. The script would grab the name of the currently selected item and create a symbolic link to that item on your desktop.

Down For Everyone or Just Me?

Similar to the other extensions, this extension would query isup.me to determine if a web site was down for everyone, or just me. The script returns the results in Growl.

Others

I’ve got several other scripts done too, but to keep from beating the dead horse, I thought I would just list a few others.

Get ip - Gets your external ip address, copies it to the clipboard and displays in Growl

Show System Files - Shows all files in Finder, reloads Finder, displays action in Growl

Hide System Files - Opposite of show system files.

Make DMG - Creates a DMG image from the currently selected folder

Tweet - Think we’ve all seen this. Posts to Twitter, Growls success.

Flush DNS - Does as it says, it flushes the DNS cache.

Ping - Pings the specified address and returns the top 3 replies via Growl.

Facebook - Sets Facebook status, Growls success.

The End

I’ll be posting links to all of these scripts when 0.9.9 releases. If you guys have any other ideas of stuff that I might could make in the meantime, let me know on Twitter @jdfwarrior.