Tutorial

This is a two-part tutorial on writing an Alfred 4+ workflow with Alfred-PyWorkflow, taking you through the basics to a full-featured workflow ready to share with the world.

Part 1: A Basic Pinboard Workflow

In which we build an Alfred workflow to view recent posts to Pinboard.

If you’re new to Alfred and/or coding in general, start here.

• Tutorial Part 1: Creating a Basic Pinboard Workflow
  • Creating a new Workflow
  • Describing your Workflow
  • Adding a Script Filter
  • Writing your Python script
  • Adding workflow actions
  • Improving performance and not getting banned
  • Making the posts searchable
    • Improving the search results
  • What now?
    • Further reading

Part 2: A Distribution-Ready Pinboard Workflow

In which we make our Pinboard workflow ready for the masses.

Demonstrates more advanced usage of Alfred-PyWorkflow and a few workflow tricks that might also be of interest to intermediate Pythonistas.

• Tutorial Part 2: Creating a Distribution-Ready Pinboard Workflow
  • Performing multiple actions from one script
  • Multi-step actions
  • Saving settings
    • Saving settings securely
  • “Magic” arguments
  • Logging
  • Spit and polish
    • Two actions, one keyword
    • Notifying the user if there are no results
    • Greased lightning: background updates
  • The fruits of your labour
    • Sharing your workflow
    • Updating your workflow