How can i output a function?

[rawnly]

Hello! How can i run a function (for example execa) when user select an item from list?

That's my code:

alfy.output([
	{
		title: 'Random',
		body: 'Get random photo'
	}, {
               title: 'ID',
               body: 'Pick photo by id'
        }
])  

Maybe not quite understand how it works

[SamVerschueren]

Link your alfred locally (./node_modules/.bin/alfy-init). Open Alfred and open the Workflows section and open your workflow.

You will now see something like this

Currently, by default the script passes the selected option to the Open URL action. However, you can remove that action and add another one by right-clicking the screen, Actions -> Run Script. A popup will apear and you can enter a bash command, or if you want to handle it with Node.js, the following script should work as well.

./node_modules/.bin/run-node handler.js "$1"

Where handler.js is a file in your project

Connect both of them and you're good to go.

---

So how do you pass data from your search view to the handler.js file? Quite simple by adding an arg property to your output list.

alfy.output([
	{
		title: 'Random',
		body: 'Get random photo',
                arg: 'rand'
	}, {
               title: 'ID',
               body: 'Pick photo by id',
               arg: 'id'
        }
])  

And in your handler.js, get the arg value like so

const arg = process.argv[2];

if (arg === 'rand') {
    // Get a random picture
}

Hope this is enough information to get you going.

[SamVerschueren]

Yesterday I made alfred-fkill which uses the exact same workflow as I describe above. It might give you some inspiration :).

[rawnly]

Thank you very much!