Search the web, save a note, add a reminder, or do over 200 other things, just by typing into your Mac's Spotlight search box. Or write your own plugins. Flashlight is an open platform for Spotlight, which allows developers to write plugins that extend OS X's built-in search with new features. Flashlight is an unofficial Spotlight API that allows you to programmatically process queries and add additional results. It's very rough right now, and a horrendous hack, but a fun proof of concept. 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. Flashlight.app is currently translated into English, German, Spanish, Dutch, Chinese, French, Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Turkish, Korean and Russian. Flashlight is translated via the usual OS X app localization methods.

Features

  • Requires OS X Yosemite
  • Programmatically process queries and add additional results
  • Clone and build using Xcode
  • Start with the tutorial on writing plugins
  • Search the web, save a note, add a reminder
  • Write your own plugins

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Browser Extensions and Plugins

License

MIT License

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Operating Systems

Mac

Programming Language

Python

Related Categories

Python Browser Extensions and Plugins

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2021-09-29
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