Flashlight for macOS 10.10 - 10.15

Flashlight is an unofficial Spotlight API that allows you to programmatically process queries and add additional results.

Installation (requires System Integrity Protection to be disabled)

1. Download and open MacForge
2. Install Flashlight
3. Open Flashlight and install the plugins you want to use
4. Start using Flashlight

Big Sur

Significant changes have been made to Spotlight in Big Sur add that on top of the fact Flashlight was already partly broken in recent releases, around 10.15.5 and beyond, I've decided to discontinue my efforts in this project. There are also not many users 387 on v1.2 according to analytics.

Writing Plugins

Start with the tutorial on writing plugins.

Once you're finished with a plugin, clone our repo, place your bundle in PluginDirectories/1, and we'll upload it to the online directory.

Contributing

We welcome all contributions to the Flashlight core and plugins. See the wiki for more info.

Credits

• nate-parrott - Original Flashlight
• alexzielenski - macOS 10.10 support
• w0lfschild - macOS 10.10 - 10.12 support
• krystofcelba - macOS 10.13 support
• ThatsJustCheesy - macOS 10.14 support
• jslegendre - macOS 10.15 support

Translations

• xremix and DanielBocksteger for German
• matth96 for Dutch
• tiphedor for French
• lipe1966 for Portugese
• chuyik for Chinese
• suer and ymyzk for Japanese
• andreaponza for Italian
• iltercengiz for Turkish
• AlAdler for Spanish
• readingsnail for Korean
• davochka for Russian
• dougian for Greek
• Kejk for Swedish
• majk-p for Polish
• jurgemaister for Norwegian
• /vlcekmi3 for Czech

License

Licensed under the GPL and MIT licenses (see LICENSE)

Helping out

You can help out by:

• Writing a plugin you want
• Taking a look at the Github issues
• Sharing the app with friends on Twitter or Facebook.