Things to do to get the workflow working

[shageman]

I hadn't used this in a while because I lost my Alfred license. Found it and had some trouble getting this running.

• When downloading from releases, the workflow version still specifies python. There is new code in master, but it hasn't been released yet.
• Ended up downloading the repo and running bin/package.sh locally. This gets me a version which calls python3
• Installed the workflow from the local build
• Caching didn't seem to ever finish...
  • `cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/Alfred//Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows/user.workflow.7BC6DA73-3AE4-4FB1-B814-43DBE902B6FC/"
  • tail -f * showed the error message: It couldn't find the google api python package
    • pip3 install --upgrade google-api-core
• The workflow needs to open a browser to log you into your google account. I have a browser selector and messed up opening the right browser on the first try. The workflow won't trigger the login again. Uninstall and reinstall the workflow and make sure to login using the browser.

We're back in business.

Thanks, Decker87!

[shageman]

On a second computer I had a novel problem. All of this still didn't make it work. In the end I changed the code for the search command to the following:

nohup python3 continuously_update_local_cache.py &
nohup python3 continuously_get_latest_workflow.py &
python3 main.py --action=search --query "{query}"

From this I could see in the Alfred console (the little bug in the top right gets you to it) that the installation of google-api-core wasn't being picked up by Alfred. So, I made another change:

pip3 install --upgrade google-api-core
nohup python3 continuously_update_local_cache.py &
nohup python3 continuously_get_latest_workflow.py &
python3 main.py --action=search --query "{query}"

This made it work. Once I had the dependencies installed, I removed the first line.