Exploring AppleScript with Alfred Shortcuts
01Sep
If you have read my blog before, you’ll know that I am a big fan of Alfred (here). I love the shortcuts and the ability to make things quicker. One of the things I find myself doing quite frequently is looking for domains and their traffic counts on Alexa, Compete, and Quantcast.
So I took my SysAdmin based love of making things quicker and learned enough Applescript to let Alfred make my life easier. I wrote a script that when a domain argument is passed to it in Alfred, it will open up a Quantcast tab, a Compete tab, and an Alexa tab for that domain in Google Chrome (Note: With the script below, it MUST be Google Chrome). To install, go to the Alfred preferences and create a new Applescript extension.
Fill out the text boxes as follows:
Title: domstat
Description: Get the domain statistics for
Keyword: domstat
Now put this in the script box:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 | on alfred_script(q) set competeURL to "http://siteanalytics.compete.com/" & item 1 of q set quantURL to "http://www.quantcast.com/" & item 1 of q set alexaURL to "http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/" & item 1 of q tell application "Google Chrome" set activeIndex to get active tab index of window 1 tell window 1 set competeTab to make new tab with properties {URL:competeURL} set quantTab to make new tab with properties {URL:quantURL} set alexaTax to make new tab with properties {URL:alexaURL} end tell set active tab index of window 1 to activeIndex end tell end alfred_script |
To execute, just fire up Alfred and type: “domstat eric.lubow.org” and it will fire up Google Chrome and open up the tabs.
Update:
You can even download the Alfred extension directly from here.
