Netflix Workflow

I’ve been playing with Alfred quite a bit lately and of course I needed a quick way to launch my favorite Netflix shows for that sweet sweet downtime.

I had found a “Chrome Window” AppleScript but I wanted to be able to pass in the URL of the show I want to watch. A little googling and I wound up with using the ampersand to make use of that q variable (query) that’s being passed in.

on alfred_script(q)

tell application "Google Chrome"
	make new window
	tell application "System Events" to set frontmost of process "Google Chrome" to true
	activate
	do shell script "open " & q
end tell

end alfred_script

And this is what it looks like in the application:¹

But the most interesting part is probably the list of shows. It’s lean, but I started with the best ones first.

And finally this is what it looks like after I’ve used the ⌘-space hotkey to launch it and have typed ‘netflix’:

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1. Of course I took a detour to create a workflow that will take whatever the filename is for the image and generates the figure shortcode for me with the name plugged in (twice - once to display, once to link). ↩︎