OS X Yosemite Spotlight extensions

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JLoppert picture JLoppert · Aug 5, 2014 · Viewed 7.3k times · Source

Is it possible to extend spotlight's search feature to support additional commands?

For example, is it possible to define custom web search aliases, meaning I could type yt and it would provide results from youtube.

Alternatively, is it possible to add additional system commands were I could type sl (or some variant) to put my computer to sleep.

Answer

WebWorker picture WebWorker · Nov 28, 2014

In the meantime there is Flashlight (The missing plugin system for Spotlight) http://flashlight.nateparrott.com/

This is expandable with Python scripts.

UPDATE Oct 2016 It seems that Flashlight is not longer maintained. The last update was more then a year ago. Check the repo here: https://github.com/nate-parrott/Flashlight

UPDATE Mar 2017 There is a fork which is still maintained: github.com/w0lfschild/Flashlight – Thanks @amoebe

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