Submit Workflow: Emoji Wine

[BenjaminOddou]

Preflight

• [X] The Alfred team has invited me to submit this workflow.

The submitted workflow:

• [X] Was authored by me. ⓘ
• [X] Uses Workflow Configuration or has no user-facing settings. ⓘ
• [X] Does not have an auto-updater. ⓘ
• [X] Does not contain unsigned and non-notarised binaries. ⓘ
• [X] Does not download extra software. ⓘ
• [X] Uses keywords with more than one character. ⓘ
• [X] Has a descriptive About section. ⓘ
• [X] Has an icon of at least 256x256 px. ⓘ

Homepage

https://github.com/BenjaminOddou/alfred-emoji-wine

Alfred Forum page

https://www.alfredforum.com/topic/20333-emoji-wine/

Gallery page content

Usage

Search emojis with the wine keyword.

↩︎: Copy the emoji to the clipboard. ⌘↩︎: Paste the emoji to frontmost application. ⇧↩︎: Open the emojipedia page.

The harvest keyword is used to refresh the API and manage tags. Tags are used to search a group of emojis with custom keywords or sentences.

Tags

emoji, api, emoji-picker, emojipedia

Test data

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Homebrew dependencies

Pillow

Bundled libraries

No bundled library.

[BenjaminOddou]

Example of tags (must be named tags-<en/fr...>.json) to be placed in ~/Library/Application Support/Alfred/Workflow Data/com.benjamino.emoji_wine.

[
    {
        "id": "7df02fe8d440",
        "title": "French Touch",
        "emojis": [
            "🥐",
            "🧀",
            "🍾",
            "🇫🇷",
            "🥖",
            "🍷"
        ]
    },
    {
        "id": "078f7f569d84",
        "title": "Unicode 15.0",
        "emojis": [
            "🫸🏽",
            "🪈",
            "🪭",
            "🫷🏽",
            "🫨",
            "🫸🏼",
            "🫏",
            "🪼",
            "🫸🏻",
            "🐦‍⬛",
            "🫷🏼",
            "🩵",
            "🫚",
            "🫸",
            "🩶",
            "🫷🏾",
            "🪇",
            "🫛",
            "🫎",
            "🪮",
            "🪻",
            "🫷🏻",
            "🫸🏾",
            "🩷",
            "🫷🏿",
            "🫸🏿",
            "🫷",
            "🛜",
            "🪽",
            "🪿",
            "🪯"
        ]
    }
]

[vitorgalvao]

Unfortunately, the Pillow library is making this impossible to run. Those binaries, the .so files, are not signed and thus are stopped by macOS. Sometimes those aren’t actually crucial and can be deleted without repercussions, but in this case that doesn’t work.

However, I looked around and pillow is available as a Homebrew formula so it may be possible for you to shift to use that instead? Then pillow would be listed as a dependency of the workflow and installable via the dependencies manager.

This is tangential, but it looks like you have installed the library with a Homebrewed Python. They should always be installed with the Python which ships with macOS (/usr/bin/python3) to ensure they work on most people’s installations. That doesn’t matter for this case though, as it’s not the source of the issue.

[BenjaminOddou]

@vitorgalvao, indeed I didn't realized that I was shipping unsigned binaries. Normally I am putting all my python dependencies along with the workflow, that's why !

I can remove the lib folder inside the workflow and make pillow in the list of homebrew package (I am gonna change the docs also) then it should be good to go ? Is there other improvements I should do ?

Many thanks in advance.

[BenjaminOddou]

@vitorgalvao, I updated the workflow and removed the embedded pillow library. Now it's required as a Homebrew dependency.

[vitorgalvao]

Thank you for the submission and fast turnaround. It will list not only pillow as a dependency, but python3 as well since it needs a Homebrew version. That required an extra bit of consideration, but everything looks fine. Should be live at https://alfred.app/workflows/benjaminoddou/emoji-wine/ during the day tomorrow.