Generate Passwords Workflow 🔐 for Alfred

A workflow for Alfred that helps you to quickly and securely generate random passwords of any given length.

By default, it generates both an alphanumeric password and a strong password, containing special characters. As a bonus, it also generates XKCD passwords with both 3 and 4 words.

Selecting the generated password in Alfred copies it to the clipboard.

The latest version can also be found on:

• Pacmax
• The Alfred Forum

Installation

Download the latest version of the GenereratePasswords.alfredworkflow from the Releases page and double click the downloaded file to install it.

The workflow supports automatic updates and will perform daily update checks.

Caveats and Requirements

This workflow requires Alfred 4 or above.

Usage

The default keyword is pw. The first and only parameter is the desired password length, defaulting to 20.

When hitting ⏎ Return on a selected item, the generated password is copied to the clipboard.

Planned Features

• Possibility to change default options (default password length, delimiter, XKCD word lists, ...)

Developers

If you want to contribute, fork this repository and submit a pull request.

To make the project work locally on your machine, check out the repository and issue the following commands:

$ python -m pip install --ignore-installed --target=lib -r requirements.txt

Alternatively, if you would rather work with a virtual environment, run these commands (replace <your-python-version> with the version of Python you want to use, but 3.4 is the minimum requirement):

$ python -m pip install virtualenv
$ python -m virtualenv --python=python<your-python-version> .venv
$ source .venv/bin/activate
$ python -m pip install -r requirements.txt

To run the script in the terminal, simply run:

$ python pwgen.py

You can install jq from Homebrew and pipe the output of the workflow through this program to get nice formatting and the option to query the JSON.

Acknowledgements

The following resources were used when creating this workflow:

• The excellent Alfred-Workflow python library by Dean Jackson.
• The lock icon used in the workflow by Pixel perfect and licensed under CC 3.0 BY.
• The xkcdpass Python library for generating XKCD passwords

A big ♥️ thank you to all creators!