Pushing data from a file to the snippet instead of the clipboard

[Maduranga]

I am new in the forum, so pardon me if I haven't found a previous thread that this was already discussed with my quick research.

 

Do you know any way of dynamically adding data (like from a URL, or from a file in the system at snippet template 

parsing time) when processing the template and pasting the outcome to the user's cursor prompt?

 

I would like ideally to:

- Populate a Dynamic Placeholder, that can query a web URL, and grab the Markdown text from there

- Then use that in the snippet template, parse as usual, and paste to the cursor location as usual snippets do

 

I know it might be a tricky ask, but it would be wonderful if that's possible!

Because this way Alfred can work with real-time data!

 

 

[vitor]

Welcome @Maduranga,

 

Seems like you want a Snippet Trigger which will do something, most likely via a Run Script Action since you want to query a URL, then use a Copy to Clipboard Output to paste.

However, without knowing exactly what you’re trying to accomplish, it’s quite difficult to be more precise about the steps.