Code search Alfred workflow

Let's go to Alfred settings/Workflows/+/Blank workflow

Name our new workflow, you can use whatever name you want, let's put "Code search"

Create a new element of type script filter

Now we need to make some adjustments over the defaults values:

• keyword, we use cs for easy access
• Language /bin/bash
• with input as {query}

And we need to put the following code into script box:

cat << EOF
{
  "items": [
    {
      "title": "GitHub code search",
      "arg": "https://github.com/search?type=code&q={query}"
    },
    {
      "title": "SourceGraph",
      "arg": "https://sourcegraph.com/search?q=context:global+{query}&patternType=standard"
    }
  ]
}
EOF

Here we're just printing a JSON file with the options to be selected, we now support 2 services:

• GitHub Code Search
• SourceGraph

In case we need to add another one we can do it here.

The resulting configuration should be like the below image:

Now we need to define an action to open an URL in the browser

We leave all the defaults here because the script filter (defined in the previous step) will generate the URL.

Now we need to link both components, we use the graphic tool in Alfred, the result should be as the following image:

Now if we open Alfred and write for example: cs completing-read we'll see the following image:

If we press enter a new browser tab will be open with the selected service and input we wrote.

Enjoy :)