Add support for raycast / Alfred / spotlight / ... on Mac

[veler]

What improvement do you think would an existing feature or tool in DevToys?

It would be nice to be able to find DevToys tools directly in raycast / Alfred / spotlight / ...

Solution/Idea

Integrate support of raycast / Alfred / spotlight and more.

Comments

No response

[edheltzel]

A Raycast extension would be a great addition and help more users learn about DevToys.

The DevUtils Ext exists, but DevToys' UI is better and is open source.

[veler]

If anyone know how to make such an extension that could work with C#, that would be fantastic. I think that's the main challenge. Making the interoperability working.

[jfernandogt]

Does the DevToys app work with URL schemes? For example something like: devtoys://base64Encoder?input=asd

In that case I can work on a Raycast extension for it.

[veler]

Hello @jfernandogt ,

DevToys does not support URL schemes on MacOS for now. I wouldn't mind some help as I'm getting behind (getting more GitHub issues than I can absorb in my spare time).
I believe for it to support URL scheme, we need to modify the Info.plist isn't it? Here it is:
https://github.com/DevToys-app/DevToys/blob/main/src/app/dev/platforms/desktop/DevToys.MacOS/Info.plist

Feel free to hack DevToys to make it support it :D

Since DevToys supports extensions, it has a dynamic list of tools. Unless we only want to support a few tools, I'd suggest to pass the tool's internal name as a parameter of the Url. Making the input parameter may be challenging as various tools expect various kind of inputs. We will probably want to proceed the same way we do with Smart Detection : get whatever input the user got (in Smart Detection, it comes from the Clipboard), and pass it to IGuiTool.OnDataReceived, which fills-in the UI of DevToys with whatever there was in the Clipboard.

That makes me think... Is the idea to get the result of a tool directly in Raycast? Or is the idea that Raycast would open DevToys and expect it to navigate to a given tool?

Thanks