https://github.com/BenziAhamed/Menu-Bar-Search

Quickly search through menu options of the front-most application - Alfred Workflow
https://github.com/BenziAhamed/Menu-Bar-Search

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Quickly search through menu options of the front-most application - Alfred Workflow

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/BenziAhamed/Menu-Bar-Search
• Owner: BenziAhamed
• Created: 2017-04-18T07:02:20.000Z (over 7 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2023-11-16T00:48:55.000Z (about 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-13T14:23:03.322Z (about 2 months ago)
• Topics: alfred, alfred3-workflow, swift3
• Language: Swift
• Homepage:
• Size: 49.3 MB
• Stars: 550
• Watchers: 15
• Forks: 29
• Open Issues: 15
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md

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README

        
#  Menu Bar Search - An Alfred Workflow

Quickly search through menu options of the front-most application. [↓ Download](https://github.com/BenziAhamed/Menu-Bar-Search/releases/latest/download/Menu.Bar.Search.alfredworkflow)



   

   

  

  



## Usage

- Type `m` in Alfred to list menu bar items for front most application.

- You can filter menu items by name, or do a fuzzy search.

- Alternatively, set a hotkey to trigger the workflow as well.

E.g

- `m new tab` will match the menu item **New Tab**

- `m cw` will match the menu item **Close Window**

## Change log

- 1.0 - Initial Release

- 1.1 - Added Fuzzy Text Matching for Menus

- 1.1.1 - Changed run behaviour to terminate previous script, this makes the experience slightly more faster

- 1.2 - Completely native menu clicking, removed reliance on AppleScript

  - 1.2.1 - Performance improvements when generating menus using direct JSON encoding

  - 1.2.2 - More performance improvements while filtering menu items

- 1.3 - Added `-async` flag to allow threaded scanning and populating of menus

- 1.4 - Added `-cache` setting to enable menu result caching and also set a timeout for cache invalidation

  - 1.4.1 - Invalidate cache (if present) after actioning a menu press

  - 1.4.2 - Slide the cache invalidation window forward in case we get invalidated by a near miss

  - 1.4.3 - Speed improvements to caching, text search and fuzzy matching

  - 1.4.4 - Added `-no-apple-menu` flag that will skip the apple menu items

  - 1.4.5 - Tuned fuzzy matcher, allows non-continuous anchor token search

- 1.5 - Faster caching using protocol buffers

  - 1.5.1 - Reduced file creation for cache storage

  - 1.5.2 - Better support for command line apps that create menu bar owning applications

  - 1.5.3 - Protocol buffer everything - microscopic speed improvements, but hey...

  - 1.5.4 - Added various environment variables to fine tune menu listings

  - 1.5.5 - Tweaked ranking of search results for better menu listings

- 1.6 - Added per app customization via Settings.txt configuration file

- 1.7 - Universal build for M1 and Intel

- 1.8 - Fixed the universal build

- 1.9 - changed to user configuration, and signed executable (exported using Alfred 5)

- 2.0 - Alfred workflow gallery support! With added shortcut search, brand new configuration settings, tweaks to caching behaviour, brand new icons

## Credits

- Based on the ctwise's ObjC implementation of [Menu Bar Search](https://www.alfredforum.com/topic/1993-menu-search/), which I've ported over to Swift and added caching and per app configuration to speed things up.