Hatticus24 Posted May 19, 2016 Share Posted May 19, 2016 Is there any way to import over my TextExpander snippets into Alfred v3? I found this, but Github is a bit beyond me, no idea how to get started. andresks 1 Link to comment
FroZen_X Posted May 19, 2016 Share Posted May 19, 2016 (edited) This should help you to get started with it: https://docs.npmjs.com/getting-started/installing-node Here is Node.js: https://nodejs.org/en/ After that download the zip from github and unzip it in your downloads folder. Now you should have a folder named "textexpander-to-alfred3-master" in your downloads folder. Open Terminal → Type "cd Downloads" and press "Enter" to get into your downloads folder → then "cd textexpander-to-alfred3-master" press "Enter" to get into the folder of the textexpander converter. After that type "sudo npm install -g textexpander-to-alfred3" → you will have to type in your password (it won't show any signs or stars, so don't wonder) Type in your password and press enter. It should run your command and give you something like this: /usr/local/bin/textexpander-to-alfred3 -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/textexpander-to-alfred3/textexpander-to-alfred3.js /usr/local/bin/te2a3 -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/textexpander-to-alfred3/textexpander-to-alfred3.js /usr/local/lib └── textexpander-to-alfred3@0.0.3 After that you're almost done. Export groups from TextExpander and copy pasta them into the folder "textexpander-to-alfred3-master". As you're still in that folder via Terminal you just have to type in something like "textexpander-to-alfred3 Signatures.textexpander" depending on your exported filename. It will create a file for Alfred that you can double click and you're done Hope that helps ^^ Edited May 19, 2016 by FroZen_X mcdev, Hatticus24 and andresks 3 Link to comment
mcdev Posted May 19, 2016 Share Posted May 19, 2016 (edited) Here are a few of the default TextExpander snippets, converted to Alfred3:https://www.dropbox.com/s/1l9dn1iaafogmi2/TextExpander-To-Alfred3-Snippet-Collection--Emoji-Symbols-TidBits-Accented.zip?dl=0 Includes:Symbols Emoji (in Slack format, i.e. :keyword: ) TidBITS AutoCorrect Dictionary Accented Words Unzip, double-click to install. Edited May 19, 2016 by mcdev Link to comment
Davduf Posted May 19, 2016 Share Posted May 19, 2016 Hope that helps ^^ Like a charm ! Great ! All my best, David Link to comment
danieldiekmeier Posted May 19, 2016 Share Posted May 19, 2016 Hey Guys! I am the creator of the script, and I just released it as a web app, so people not familiar with Node should have no problem converting their files: http://alfred.danieldiekmeier.de/ Thanks for your interest! <3 mcdev, Hatticus24 and FroZen_X 3 Link to comment
hanieldanson Posted May 19, 2016 Share Posted May 19, 2016 Anyone know how to get this type of script from TextExpander working in Alfred 3 snippets? %filltext:name=test% Hatticus24 and Shark.Formax 2 Link to comment
Hatticus24 Posted May 20, 2016 Author Share Posted May 20, 2016 Anyone know how to get this type of script from TextExpander working in Alfred 3 snippets? %filltext:name=test% +1 for this, if anyone knows how to do it? Link to comment
deanishe Posted May 20, 2016 Share Posted May 20, 2016 Anyone know how to get this type of script from TextExpander working in Alfred 3 snippets? %filltext:name=test% You can't. Currently, Alfred can do dates and times and insert the clipboard, but no other dynamic values are supported in snippets. You can't even place the cursor yet. Link to comment
Shark.Formax Posted June 2, 2016 Share Posted June 2, 2016 I'm also looking to get the `%filltext` working. it's one of the key features I got TextExpander for. Link to comment
jonniecharles Posted April 21, 2017 Share Posted April 21, 2017 On 19/05/2016 at 9:19 PM, danieldiekmeier said: Hey Guys! I am the creator of the script, and I just released it as a web app, so people not familiar with Node should have no problem converting their files: http://alfred.danieldiekmeier.de/ Thanks for your interest! <3 After receiving an email from Frown-on-my-mac this morning, and realising textexpander was disabled. I was a bit stunned. Fortunately this thread and Daniel's web app (URL in his thread above) for converting my multitude of textexpander shortcuts to Alfred snippets - solved it - and worked a treat. First time, I lost all my folders, however by quickly re-outputting them all from inside textexpander I was able to maintain folder structure as well. Brilliant thank you. Link to comment
StDt Posted May 14, 2017 Share Posted May 14, 2017 Hi there, as a user of Typinator - is there a similar tool to import existing Typinator lists (file.tyset) to Alfred snippets? Or - perhaps more simple - to import csv-files or txt-files to a new snippet collection? Best regards, StDt Link to comment
clancularius Posted October 27, 2017 Share Posted October 27, 2017 On 2016-05-19 at 4:19 PM, danieldiekmeier said: Hey Guys! I am the creator of the script, and I just released it as a web app, so people not familiar with Node should have no problem converting their files: http://alfred.danieldiekmeier.de/ Thanks for your interest! <3 I'm looking into Alfred as a replacement for Textexpander which renewed my subscription without warning. I tried your script however, the file format for exporting textexpander is (now or is there another way to export from textexpander than what they provide?) .csv rather than .textexpander and the web app doesn't work. Link to comment
Vero Posted October 27, 2017 Share Posted October 27, 2017 @clancularius Welcome to the forum! Could you please fill in your Powerpack email address in your forum profile? This is only visible to admins (Andrew and I) and allows us to confirm your Powerpack user status. Cheers, Vero Link to comment
clancularius Posted October 27, 2017 Share Posted October 27, 2017 1 minute ago, Vero said: @clancularius Welcome to the forum! Could you please fill in your Powerpack email address in your forum profile? This is only visible to admins (Andrew and I) and allows us to confirm your Powerpack user status. Cheers, Vero I haven't purchased anything yet so I don't know that I have a "Powerpack email address". I'm trying to learn whether the snippet features found in Alfred compare well enough to make that purchase and how difficult it might be to transfer existing textexpander snippets over. Link to comment
adamrice Posted June 7, 2019 Share Posted June 7, 2019 (edited) On 5/19/2016 at 3:19 PM, danieldiekmeier said: Hey Guys! I am the creator of the script, and I just released it as a web app, so people not familiar with Node should have no problem converting their files: http://alfred.danieldiekmeier.de/ Thanks for your interest! ❤️ I'm a little late to the party, but this is no longer working. I tried installing the script via npm; that also did not working. I tried installing the script directly, and then running it, but apparently I was missing some dependencies. Edited June 7, 2019 by adamrice Link to comment
ldebritto Posted August 27, 2019 Share Posted August 27, 2019 On 5/19/2016 at 5:19 PM, danieldiekmeier said: Hey Guys! I am the creator of the script, and I just released it as a web app, so people not familiar with Node should have no problem converting their files: http://alfred.danieldiekmeier.de/ Thanks for your interest! <3 Hey guys, I've jus tried Daniel's tool and got back a html file with an error message on it. Here it is: TypeError: Cannot read property 'replace' of undefined at sanitize (/home/danjel/te2a3-server/node_modules/sanitize-filename/index.js:41:5) at module.exports (/home/danjel/te2a3-server/node_modules/sanitize-filename/index.js:51:16) at transformSnippet (/home/danjel/te2a3-server/node_modules/textexpander-to-alfred3/textexpander-to-alfred3.js:29:15) at Array.map (native) at textexpander2Alfred (/home/danjel/te2a3-server/node_modules/textexpander-to-alfred3/textexpander-to-alfred3.js:71:6) at /home/danjel/te2a3-server/index.js:43:3 at Layer.handle [as handle_request] (/home/danjel/te2a3-server/node_modules/express/lib/router/layer.js:95:5) at next (/home/danjel/te2a3-server/node_modules/express/lib/router/route.js:131:13) at Array.<anonymous> (/home/danjel/te2a3-server/node_modules/multer/lib/make-middleware.js:52:37) at listener (/home/danjel/te2a3-server/node_modules/multer/node_modules/on-finished/index.js:169:15) Any ideas? Link to comment
Christian Bailey Posted April 6, 2021 Share Posted April 6, 2021 New to Alfred and just bought the PowerPack. What is the easiest way to accomplish this now? I see that sadly @danieldiekmeier 's webapp is down. Link to comment
Vero Posted April 8, 2021 Share Posted April 8, 2021 @Christian Bailey The original script created by Daniel is still available here: https://github.com/danieldiekmeier/textexpander-to-alfred3 As he states on that page, TextExpander has likely changed since he created this script in 2016, so depending on which version of TE you're using, this may need tweaking before it works again. Alfred should have no problem importing the snippets as this aspect of Alfred's Snippets feature will accept the same input as it did in Alfred 3 for compatibility reasons. Cheers, Vero Link to comment
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