There are quite a few Alfred workflows out there to search hex.pm for Elixir and Erlang modules — this is my take.
Why bother? Most of the other workflows out there either just provide a simple search shortcut, or rely on an external helper, or both. I wanted a self-contained tool that would take me to most of the sites of interest related to a package, and generate a Mix dependency tuple for the latest version. Because I'm super lazy.
- Simple Ruby script embedded in the workflow, using just the system Ruby and standard library. No need to install Node or Elixir helpers.
h {query}to search hex.pm- Select a result to go to the hex.pm page for that package.
- Copying a result gets you the Mix dependency tuple for the latest version
- Shift-select to go to the hex.pm page and copy the dependency tuple to your clipboard
- Alt-select to go to the project's Github page, if it has one
- Ctrl-select to go to the project's documentation on hexdocs.pm.
The hex.pm API doesn't seem to provide an explicit documentation link, so we calculate where the hexdocs.pm documentation should be. This won't work for Erlang packages, and you'll get a 404.
The shift-select feature to visit a package's hex.pm page and copy its version tuple to the clipboard depends on functionality introduced in Alfred 3.4.1. This is currently in pre-release.