Alfred custom Web Searches

Alfred helps you search the web much more efficiently than if you were to manually open a website before you start typing in your search terms. Alfred comes with many searches, but you can add your own. You'll need a PowerPack to make them.

I've written each custom web search as three lines:

1. Keyword,

2. Title, and

3. Search URL.

Custom searches for SIL and Wycliffe systems

gateway Search SIL Gateway for ‘{query}’ https://gateway.sil.org/dosearchsite.action?queryString={query}

workday Search Workday for "{query}" https://www.myworkday.com/wycliffe/d/search.htmld?q={query}

mpdx Search MPDx for "{query}" https://mpdx.org/contacts?filters={"wildcardSearch":"{query}""}

My team uses Freshdesk to manage support for one of our products, cover.sil.org. You'd need to change the domain to use it for another product.

freshdesk Search Cover's FreshDesk for "{query}" https://coverapp.freshdesk.com/a/search/tickets?term={query}

SIL and Wycliffe for multiple Google accounts

If you use multiple Gmail accounts (e.g., personal, SIL, and Wycliffe), you'll need to specify which account to search in the URL. By default, Google will use a simple number for each account depending on when you first logged into it. For me, …/u/0/… is my personal Gmail, /u/1 is SIL, and /u/2 is Wycliffe. Go to the website normally and inspect the URL to know which is which, or simply experiment. Be aware that this is a bit fragile; Google may switch which number belongs to which identity.

contact Search my contacts for ‘{query}’ https://contacts.google.com/u/0/search/{query}

contact Search SIL contacts for ‘{query}’ https://contacts.google.com/u/1/search/{query}

contact Search Wycliffe contacts for ‘{query}’ https://contacts.google.com/u/2/search/{query}

For some Google webapps, namely Gmail and Drive, you can specify your account with its email address instead of a number. This is much more robust. To use these, replace my email address with yours.

gmail Search SIL Gmail for ‘{query}’ https://mail.google.com/mail/u/first_last@sil.org/#search/{query}

gmail Search Wycliffe Gmail for ‘{query}’ https://mail.google.com/mail/u/first_last@wycliffe.org/#search/{query}

drive Search Wycliffe Drive for ‘{query}’ https://drive.google.com/drive/u/2/search?q={query}

drive Search SIL Drive for ‘{query}’ https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/search?q={query}

For my own convenience, I've also made not-so-web-searches to just get to my Gmail inboxes. You can just as easily use bookmarks for these.

gmail Gmail for SIL https://mail.google.com/mail/u/first_last@sil.org

gmail Gmail for Wycliffe https://mail.google.com/mail/u/first_last@wycliffe.org

Other web searches

These have nothing to do with my organizations, but I

orders Search Amazon Orders for ‘{query}’ https://www.amazon.com/gp/your-account/order-history/?opt=ab&search={query}

orders Open Amazon Order History https://www.amazon.com/gp/your-account/order-history/

wirecutter Search Wirecutter for "{query}" https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/search/?s={query}

r/ Search www.reddit.com for '{query}' https://www.reddit.com/search?q={query}&referrer=sitelinks_searchbox

yt YouTube https://www.youtube.com

se Search stackexchange.com for '{query}' https://stackexchange.com/search?q={query}

noun Search thenounproject.com for '{query}' https://thenounproject.com/search/?q={query}

github Search github.com for '{query}' https://github.com/search?q={query}&ref=opensearch

scholar Search Google Scholar for ‘{query}’ https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q={query}

music Search YouTube Music for {query} https://music.youtube.com/search?q={query}

font Encode spaces as + Search Google Fonts for "{query}" https://fonts.google.com/?query={query}

icon Encode spaces as + Search Material Icons for "{query}" https://fonts.google.com/icons?icon.query={query}

glucky Open top Google hit for '{query}' http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q={query}

Facebook Marketplace has a nasty habit of including dropshipping results against my wishes. This search insists on local pickup in my area.

marketplace Search Facebook Marketplace for "{query}" https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/112265422117958/search?deliveryMethod=local_pick_up&query=> {query}

Use ' as an escape character. When I invoke gmail keyboard shortcuts, Alfred searches my emails, but with 'gmail keyboard shortcuts, it searches the internet.

' Search Google for "{query}" http://www.google.com/search?q={query}