techouse / alfred-stackoverflow

Search for answers on StackOverflow from Alfred

StackOverflow Search for Alfred

Search StackOverflow questions using Alfred.

Heavily inspired by deanishe/alfred-stackexchange. 🌱

Installation

1. Download the latest version
2. Install the workflow by double-clicking the .alfredworkflow file
3. You can add the workflow to a category, then click "Import" to finish importing. You'll now see the workflow listed in the left sidebar of your Workflows preferences pane.

Usage

Just type so followed by your <query>.

so how to encode an http query in python

Either press ⌘Y to Quick Look the result, or press <enter> to open it in your web browser.

Query syntax

Prefix a word in your <query> with . (full stop) to indicate that it's a tag, e.g requests .python will search for answers tagged python with the query requests.

Note

The search uses the StackExchange Advanced Search API which has a hard limit of 10,000 queries per IP address per day.