Alfred MetaCPAN Workflow

A workflow for Alfred that searches Perl modules from MetaCPAN incrementally.

Example

Installation

Build locally (recommended)

If you have Go installed, this is the simplest option — no Gatekeeper issues:

mkdir -p dist && make && open dist/metacpan-*.alfredworkflow

Download a release

1. Go to the latest release
2. Download the .alfredworkflow file for your Mac:
   • metacpan-*-darwin-arm64.alfredworkflow — Apple Silicon (M1/M2/M3/M4)
   • metacpan-*-darwin-amd64.alfredworkflow — Intel
3. Double-click the downloaded file to install it in Alfred

Because the binary is not signed with an Apple Developer certificate, macOS may block it when Alfred tries to run it. If that happens, run this after installing:

dir=$(find ~/Library/Application\ Support/Alfred/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows \
  -name info.plist -exec grep -l "oalders.alfredmetacpan" {} \; \
  | sed 's|/info.plist||') && xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "$dir"

Licence

MIT

Author

handlename (original) / oalders (fork)