davweb / textexpander-to-alfred

Python script to convert TextExpander 7 CSV files to Alfred 5 .alfredsnippets files

textexpander-to-alfred

Python script to convert TextExpander 7 CSV files to Alfred 5 .alfredsnippets files

Introduction

This repository contains a script which convert TextExpander 7 .csv files to Alfred 5 .alfredsnippets files. It only handles the subset of TextExpander tokens that I used in my collections, but could be easily extended to handle more.

Installation

1. Check out this repository.
2. Create and source a Python virtual environment:

   python -m venv --prompt textexpander-to-alfred .venv
   source .venv/bin/activate
   

3. Install pip and pip-tools:

   python -m pip install --upgrade pip pip-tools
   

4. Generate the requirements.txt file:

   pip-compile requirements.in
   

5. Install the dependencies:

   pip-sync
   

Running the script

1. Run the script passing the name of the .csv file to convert as an argument: python textexpander_to_alfred.py Export.csv
2. Double-click on the generated .alfredsnippets file to import it.