Scripts by Ramiro Araujo

Merge / Split Afred Clipboard Script


// Name: Merge / Split Alfred clipboard
// Description: Merge or split clipboard content using Alfred app's clipboard

import "@johnlindquist/kit"

const Database = await npm("better-sqlite3");
const databasePath = home('Library/Application Support/Alfred/Databases/clipboard.alfdb')
if (!await pathExists(databasePath)) {
    notify("Alfred clipboard database not found" )
    exit()
}

const db = new Database(databasePath);

const queryClipboard = async (sql, params) => {
    const stmt = db.prepare(sql);
    return sql.trim().toUpperCase().startsWith("SELECT") ? stmt.all(params) : stmt.run(params);
};

const getMergedClipboards = async (count, separator) => {
    const sql = `SELECT item FROM clipboard WHERE dataType = 0 order by ROWID desc LIMIT ?`;
    const clipboards = await queryClipboard(sql, [count]);
    return clipboards.map(row => row.item.trim()).join(separator);
};

const writeMergedClipboards = async (mergedText) => {
    await clipboard.writeText(mergedText);
};

const getSplitClipboard = async (separator, trim) => {
    const currentClipboard = await clipboard.readText();
    return currentClipboard.split(separator).map(item => trim ? item.trim() : item);
};

const writeSplitClipboard = async (splitText) => {
    const lastTsSql = `SELECT ts FROM clipboard WHERE dataType = 0 ORDER BY ts DESC LIMIT 1`;
    const lastTsResult = await queryClipboard(lastTsSql, []);
    let lastTs = lastTsResult.length > 0 ? Number(lastTsResult[0].ts) : 0;

    const insertSql = `INSERT INTO clipboard (item, ts, dataType, app, appPath) VALUES (?, ?, 0, 'Kit', '/Applications/Kit.app')`;

    for (let i = 0; i < splitText.length - 1; i++) {
        lastTs += 1;
        await queryClipboard(insertSql, [splitText[i], lastTs]);
    }

    await clipboard.writeText(splitText[splitText.length - 1]);
};


const action = await arg("Choose action", ["Merge", "Split"]);

if (action === "Merge") {
    const count = await arg({
        placeholder: "Enter the number of clipboard items to merge",
    }, async (input) => {
        if (isNaN(Number(input)) || input.length === 0)return ''
        return md(`<pre>${await getMergedClipboards(input, '\n')}</pre>`)
    })
    const separator = await arg({
        placeholder: "Enter the separator for merging",
    }, async (input) => {
        if (input === '\\n') input = '\n'
        return md(`<pre>${await getMergedClipboards(count, input)}</pre>`)
    })
    const mergedText = await getMergedClipboards(count, separator);
    await writeMergedClipboards(mergedText);
    await notify("Merged clipboard items and copied to clipboard");
} else {
    // const separator = await arg("Enter the separator for splitting");
    const separator = await arg({
        placeholder: "Enter the separator for splitting",
    }, async (input) => {
        if (input === '\\n') input = '\n'
        let strings = await getSplitClipboard(input, true);
        return md(`<pre>${strings.join('\n')}</pre>`)
    })
    const trim = await arg("Trim clipboard content?", ["Yes", "No"]);
    const splitText = await getSplitClipboard(separator, trim === "Yes");
    await writeSplitClipboard(splitText);
    await notify("Split clipboard content and stored in Alfred clipboard");
}

db.close();

Type Clipboard Script

by Ramiro Araujo


// Name: Type Clipboard
// Description: Get the content of the clipboard and "keystroke" it without pasting
// Shortcut: ctrl+cmd+alt+shift+v

import "@johnlindquist/kit"

const clipboardText = await clipboard.readText()

if (clipboardText.length > 1000) {
    await notify("Clipboard content is too long")
    exit()
}

await applescript(String.raw`
    set chars to count (get the clipboard)
    tell application "System Events"
        delay 0.1
        keystroke (get the clipboard)
    end tell
`)

Open in WhatsApp Script

by Ramiro Araujo


// Name: Open in WhatsApp

import "@johnlindquist/kit"

//get the text from the clipboard
let text = await clipboard.readText();

//normalize the text
text = text.replace(/[-() ]/g, "");

//validate if valid phone number
if (!text.match(/^(\+\d{12,13})|(\d{10,11})$/)) {
  notify("Invalid phone number");
  exit()
}

//assume Argentina if no country code since that's where I'm from
if (!text.startsWith("+")) {
  text = "+54" + text;
}

//open in WhatsApp
open(`https://wa.me/${text}`);

Convert selected images Script

by Ramiro Araujo


  // Name: convert selected images

import "@johnlindquist/kit";

// Grab selected files
const files = (await getSelectedFile()).split("\n");

// Set up whitelist of formats
const supportedFormats = [".heic", ".png", ".gif", ".webp", ".jpg", ".jpeg"];

// Filter files based on supported formats
const selectedFiles = files.filter(file =>
  supportedFormats.some(format => file.toLowerCase().endsWith(format))
);

// Notify if no files are selected
if (!selectedFiles.length) {
  await notify("No supported files selected");
  exit();
}

const convertHeic = await npm("heic-convert");
const sharp = await npm("sharp");

// Select the output format
const outputFormat = await arg("Choose an output format", [
  "jpg",
  "png",
  "webp",
]);

const getUniquePath = async (outputPath, suffix = "") => {
  if (await isFile(outputPath)) {
    const name = path.basename(outputPath, path.extname(outputPath));
    const newName = `${name}${suffix}-copy${path.extname(outputPath)}`;
    const newPath = path.join(path.dirname(outputPath), newName);
    return await getUniquePath(newPath, `${suffix}-copy`);
  } else {
    return outputPath;
  }
};

// Convert selected files to the chosen output format using appropriate libraries
for (const file of selectedFiles) {
  const content = await readFile(file);
  const name = path.basename(file).split(".")[0];
  const outputPath = path.join(path.dirname(file), name + `.${outputFormat}`);

  const uniqueOutputPath = await getUniquePath(outputPath);

  if (file.toLowerCase().endsWith(".heic")) {
    const formatMap = {
      jpg: "JPEG",
      png: "PNG",
    }
    const outputBuffer = await convertHeic({
      buffer: content,
      format: formatMap[outputFormat],
      quality: 0.5,
    });

    await writeFile(uniqueOutputPath, outputBuffer);
  } else {
    const sharpImage = sharp(content);

    switch (outputFormat) {
      case "jpg":
        await sharpImage.jpeg({ quality: 40 }).toFile(uniqueOutputPath);
        break;
      case "png":
        await sharpImage.png().toFile(uniqueOutputPath);
        break;
      case "webp":
        await sharpImage.webp({ quality: 40 }).toFile(uniqueOutputPath);
        break;
    }
  }
}

await notify(`Converted selected files to ${outputFormat.toUpperCase()}`);

Open URL in clipboard Script

by Ramiro Araujo


// Name: Open URL in clipboard

import "@johnlindquist/kit"

//get the clipboard
let text = await clipboard.readText();

//get the first URL in the clipboard, if any
let url = text.match(/(https?:\/\/[^\s]+)/);

//if there's a URL, open it
if (url) {
    open(url[0]);
} else {
    notify("No URL found in clipboard");
}

Emoji Search Script

by Ramiro Araujo


// Name: Emoji Search
// Description: Search and copy emoji to clipboard using SQLite database

import "@johnlindquist/kit"

const Database = await npm("better-sqlite3")
const databaseFile = projectPath("db", "emoji-search-emojilib.db")

const emojilibURL = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/muan/emojilib/main/dist/emoji-en-US.json"

const createDatabase = async () => {
    const response = await get(emojilibURL)
    const emojiData = response.data as Record<string, string[]>

    //create db and table
    const db = new Database(databaseFile)
    db.exec(`CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS emojis
           (emoji TEXT PRIMARY KEY, name TEXT, keywords TEXT, used INTEGER DEFAULT 0)`)

    //populate with data from emojilib
    for (const [emojiChar, emojiInfo] of Object.entries(emojiData)) {
        const description = emojiInfo[0]
        const tags = emojiInfo.slice(1).join(', ')

        db.prepare("INSERT OR REPLACE INTO emojis VALUES (?, ?, ?, 0)").run(emojiChar, description, tags)
    }
    db.close()
};

if (!await pathExists(databaseFile)) {
    await createDatabase()
}

const db = new Database(databaseFile)

const queryEmojis = async () => {
    const sql = "SELECT emoji, name, keywords FROM emojis ORDER BY used DESC"
    const stmt = db.prepare(sql)
    return stmt.all()
}

const snakeToHuman = (text) => {
    return text
        .split('_')
        .map((word, index) => index === 0 ? word.charAt(0).toUpperCase() + word.slice(1) : word)
        .join(' ')
}

const emojis = await queryEmojis()

const selectedEmoji = await arg("Search Emoji", emojis.map(({ emoji, name, keywords }) => ({
    name: `${snakeToHuman(name)} ${keywords}`,
    html: md(`<div class="flex items-center">
            <span class="text-5xl">${emoji}</span>
            <div class="flex flex-col ml-2">
                <span class="text-2xl" style="color: lightgrey">${snakeToHuman(name)}</span>
                <small style="color: darkgrey">${keywords}</small>       
            </div>
        </div>`),
    value: emoji,

})))

await clipboard.writeText(selectedEmoji)

// Update the 'used' count
const updateSql = "UPDATE emojis SET used = used + 1 WHERE emoji = ?"
const updateStmt = db.prepare(updateSql)
updateStmt.run(selectedEmoji)

db.close()

Text Manipulation Script

by Ramiro Araujo


// Name: Text Manipulation
// Description: Transform clipboard text based on user-selected options

import "@johnlindquist/kit"

let transformations = {
    upperCase: text => text.toUpperCase(),
    lowerCase: text => text.toLowerCase(),
    capitalize: text => text.split('\n').map(line => line.split(' ').map(word => word.charAt(0).toUpperCase() + word.slice(1)).join(' ')).join('\n'),
    decodeUrl: text => text.split('\n').map(line => decodeURIComponent(line)).join('\n'),
    snakeCase: text => text.split('\n').map(line => line.replace(/[\s-_]+(\w)/g, (_, p) => `_${p.toLowerCase()}`).replace(/^[A-Z]/, match => match.toLowerCase())).join('\n'),
    camelCase: text => text.split('\n').map(line => line.replace(/[\s-_]+(\w)/g, (_, p) => p.toUpperCase()).replace(/^[A-Z]/, match => match.toLowerCase())).join('\n'),
    kebabCase: text => text.split('\n').map(line => line.replace(/[\s-_]+(\w)/g, (_, p) => `-${p.toLowerCase()}`).replace(/^[A-Z]/, match => match.toLowerCase())).join('\n'),
    reverseCharacters: text => text.split('\n').map(line => line.split('').reverse().join('')).join('\n'),
    removeDuplicateLines: text => {
        let lines = text.split('\n');
        return [...new Set(lines)].join('\n');
    },
    keepOnlyDuplicateLines: text => {
        let lines = text.split('\n');
        let duplicates = lines.filter((item, index) => lines.indexOf(item) !== index);
        return [...new Set(duplicates)].join('\n');
    },
    removeEmptyLines: text => text.split('\n').filter(line => line.trim() !== '').join('\n'),
    removeAllNewLines: text => text.split('\n').map(line => line.trim()).join(''),
    trimEachLine: text => text.split('\n').map(line => line.trim()).join('\n'),
    sortLinesAlphabetically: text => text.split('\n').sort().join('\n'),
    sortLinesNumerically: text => text.split('\n').sort((a, b) => a - b).join('\n'),
    reverseLines: text => text.split('\n').reverse().join('\n'),
    shuffleLines: text => {
        let lines = text.split('\n')
        for (let i = lines.length - 1; i > 0; i--) {
            let j = Math.floor(Math.random() * (i + 1))
            let temp = lines[i]
            lines[i] = lines[j]
            lines[j] = temp
        }
        return lines.join('\n')
    },
    joinBy: (text, separator) => text.split('\n').join(separator),
    splitBy: (text, separator) => text.split(separator).join('\n'),
    removeWrapping: text => {
        const lines = text.split('\n');
        const matchingPairs = [['(', ')'], ['[', ']'], ['{', '}'], ['<', '>'], ['"', '"'], ["'", "'"]];
        return lines
            .map(line => {
                const firstChar = line.charAt(0);
                const lastChar = line.charAt(line.length - 1);

                for (const [open, close] of matchingPairs) {
                    if (firstChar === open && lastChar === close) {
                        return line.slice(1, -1);
                    }
                }

                if (firstChar === lastChar) {
                    return line.slice(1, -1);
                }

                return line;
            })
            .join('\n');
    },
    wrapEachLine: (text, wrapper) => {
        const lines = text.split('\n');

        return lines
            .map(line => `${wrapper}${line}${wrapper}`)
            .join('\n');
    },
    captureEachLine: (text, regex) => {
        const lines = text.split('\n');
        const pattern = new RegExp(regex);

        return lines
            .map(line => {
                const match = line.match(pattern);
                return match ? match[0] : '';
            })
            .join('\n');
    },
    removeLinesMatching: (text, regex) => {
        if (regex.length === 0) return text;
        const lines = text.split('\n');
        const pattern = new RegExp(regex, 'i');

        return lines
            .filter(line => !pattern.test(line))
            .join('\n');
    },
    keepLinesMatching: (text, regex) => {
        if (regex.length === 0) return text;
        const lines = text.split('\n');
        const pattern = new RegExp(regex, 'i')

        return lines
            .filter(line => pattern.test(line))
            .join('\n');
    },
    prependTextToAllLines: (text, prefix) => {
        const lines = text.split('\n');
        return lines.map(line => prefix + line).join('\n');
    },

    appendTextToAllLines: (text, suffix) => {
        const lines = text.split('\n');
        return lines.map(line => line + suffix).join('\n');
    },

    replaceRegexInAllLines: (text, regexWithReplacement) => {
        const [regex, replacement] = regexWithReplacement.split('|');
        const pattern = new RegExp(regex, 'g');
        const lines = text.split('\n');
        return lines.map(line => line.replace(pattern, replacement)).join('\n');
    },
    removeRegexInAllLines: (text, regex) => {
        const pattern = new RegExp(regex, 'g');
        const lines = text.split('\n');
        return lines.map(line => line.replace(pattern, '')).join('\n');
    },
    generateNumberedList: (text) => {
        const lines = text.split('\n');
        return lines.map((line, index) => `${index + 1}. ${line}`).join('\n');
    },
    noop: text => text,
}

let options = [
    // Existing options here
    {
        name: "Decode URL", description: "Decode a URL-encoded text", value: {
            key: "decodeUrl"
        }
    },
    {
        name: "Upper Case",
        description: "Transform the entire text to upper case",
        value: {
            key: "upperCase",
        },
    },
    {
        name: "Lower Case",
        description: "Transform the entire text to lower case",
        value: {
            key: "lowerCase",
        },
    },
    {
        name: "snake_case", description: "Convert text to snake_case", value: {
            key: "snakeCase"
        }
    },
    {
        name: "Capitalize", description: "Convert text to Capital Case", value: {
            key: "capitalize"
        }
    },
    {
        name: "camelCase", description: "Convert text to camelCase", value: {
            key: "camelCase"
        }
    },
    {
        name: "kebab-case", description: "Convert text to kebab-case", value: {
            key: "kebabCase"
        }
    },
    {
        name: "Reverse Characters", description: "Reverse the characters in the text", value: {
            key: "reverseCharacters"
        }
    },
    {
        name: "Remove Duplicate Lines",
        description: "Remove duplicate lines from the text",
        value: {
            key: "removeDuplicateLines"
        }
    },
    {
        name: "Keep Only Duplicate Lines",
        description: "Keep only duplicate lines in the text",
        value: {
            key: "keepOnlyDuplicateLines"
        }
    },
    {
        name: "Remove Empty Lines", description: "Remove empty lines from the text", value: {
            key: "removeEmptyLines"
        }
    },
    {
        name: "Remove All New Lines", description: "Remove all new lines from the text", value: {
            key: "removeAllNewLines"
        }
    },
    {
        name: "Trim Each Line",
        description: "Trim whitespace from the beginning and end of each line",
        value: {
            key: "trimEachLine"
        }
    },
    {
        name: "Sort Lines Alphabetically", description: "Sort lines alphabetically", value: {
            key: "sortLinesAlphabetically"
        }
    },
    {
        name: "Sort Lines Numerically", description: "Sort lines numerically", value: {
            key: "sortLinesNumerically"
        }
    },
    {
        name: "Reverse Lines", description: "Reverse the order of lines", value: {
            key: "reverseLines"
        }
    },
    {
        name: "Shuffle Lines", description: "Randomly shuffle the order of lines", value: {
            key: "shuffleLines"
        }
    },
    {
        name: "Join By",
        description: "Join lines by a custom separator",
        value: {
            key: "joinBy",
            parameter: {
                name: "Separator",
                description: "Enter a separator to join lines",
                defaultValue: ",",
            },
        },
    },
    {
        name: "Split By",
        description: "Split lines by a custom separator",
        value: {
            key: "splitBy",
            parameter: {
                name: "Separator",
                description: "Enter a separator to split lines",
            },
        },
    },
    {
        name: "Remove Wrapping",
        description: "Remove wrapping characters from each line",
        value: {
            key: "removeWrapping",
        },
    },
    {
        name: "Wrap Each Line With",
        description: "Wrap each line with a custom character or string",
        value: {
            key: "wrapEachLine",
            parameter: {
                name: "Wrapper",
                description: "Enter a wrapper for each line",
                defaultValue: '"',
            },
        },
    },
    {
        name: "Capture Each Line",
        description: "Capture and return the first match of a regex pattern in each line",
        value: {
            key: "captureEachLine",
            parameter: {
                name: "Pattern",
                description: "Enter a regex pattern to capture",
                defaultValue: "\\d+",
            },
        },
    },
    {
        name: "Remove Lines Matching",
        description: "Remove lines that match the given regex",
        value: {
            key: "removeLinesMatching",
            parameter: {
                name: "Regex",
                description: "Enter a regex to match lines to remove",
                defaultValue: '',
            },
        },
    },
    {
        name: "Keep Lines Matching",
        description: "Keep lines that match the given regex",
        value: {
            key: "keepLinesMatching",
            parameter: {
                name: "Regex",
                description: "Enter a regex to match lines to keep",
                defaultValue: '',
            },
        },
    },
    {
        name: "Prepend Text to All Lines",
        description: "Add text to the beginning of all lines",
        value: {
            key: "prependTextToAllLines",
            parameter: {
                name: "Text",
                description: "Enter text to prepend to all lines",
                defaultValue: '',
            },
        },
    },
    {
        name: "Append Text to All Lines",
        description: "Add text to the end of all lines",
        value: {
            key: "appendTextToAllLines",
            parameter: {
                name: "Text",
                description: "Enter text to append to all lines",
                defaultValue: '',
            },
        },
    },
    {
        name: "Replace Regex in All Lines",
        description: "Replace regex matches in all lines with specified text",
        value: {
            key: "replaceRegexInAllLines",
            parameter: {
                name: "Regex and Replacement",
                description: "Enter regex and replacement text separated by a '|'",
                defaultValue: '',
            },
        },
    },
    {
        name: "Generate Numbered List",
        description: "Prepend numbers to each line",
        value: {
            key: "generateNumberedList",
        },
    },
    {
        name: "Remove Regex In All Lines",
        description: "Remove matches of the provided regex in all lines",
        value: {
            key: "removeRegexInAllLines",
            parameter: {
                name: "Regex",
                description: "Enter a regex to remove from all lines",
            },
        },
    },
    {
        name: "No Operation",
        description: "Do nothing to the text, if you accidentally hit Cmd + enter and need no more transformations",
    }
]

const handleTransformation = async (text, transformation) => {
    let {key, parameter} = transformation;
    let paramValue = parameter ? await arg({
        input: parameter.defaultValue,
    }, (input) => md(`<pre>${transformations[key](text, input)}</pre>`)) : null;
    return transformations[key](text, paramValue);
};

let flags = {
    rerun: {
        name: "Rerun",
        shortcut: "cmd+enter",
    },
}


let clipboardText = await clipboard.readText()
let operations: string[] = []
let rerun = true;

while (rerun) {
    let transformation = await arg(
        {
            placeholder: "Choose a text transformation (Cmd + enter to rerun)",
            flags,
            hint: operations.join(' > '),
        },
        options
            .sort((a, b) => a.name.localeCompare(b.name))
            .map(option => {
            return {
                ...option,
                preview: () => {
                    try {
                        if (option.value.parameter) throw '';
                        return md(`<pre>${transformations[option.value.key](clipboardText)}</pre>`)
                    } catch (e) {
                        return '...'
                    }
                },
            }
        })
    )
    rerun = flag?.rerun as boolean;

    clipboardText = await handleTransformation(clipboardText, transformation);
    operations.push(transformation.key);
}

await clipboard.writeText(clipboardText)

await notify("Text transformation applied and copied to clipboard")

Screencapture OCR Script

by Ramiro Araujo


// Name: OCR
// Description: Capture a screenshot and recognize the text using tesseract.js

import "@johnlindquist/kit";

//both win and linux implementations were created by chatgpt (gpt4), without _any_ tests!! 😅
const captureScreenshot = async () => {
    const tmpFile = `/tmp/screenshot-${Date.now()}.png`;

    if (isMac) {
        await exec(`screencapture -i ${tmpFile}`);
    } else if (isWin) {
        const psScript = `
      Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Windows.Forms
      [System.Windows.Forms.SendKeys]::SendWait('%{PRTSC}')
      Start-Sleep -m 500
      $clipboardData = Get-Clipboard -Format Image
      $clipboardData.Save('${tmpFile}', [System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat]::Png)
    `;
        await exec(`powershell -Command "${psScript.replace(/\n/g, '')}"`);
    } else if (isLinux) {
        // Check if gnome-screenshot is available
        try {
            await exec('gnome-screenshot --version');
            await exec(`gnome-screenshot -f ${tmpFile}`);
        } catch (error) {
            // If gnome-screenshot is not available, try using ImageMagick's 'import' command
            await exec(`import ${tmpFile}`);
        }
    }

    return tmpFile;
};

const recognizeText = async (filePath, language) => {
    const { createWorker } = await npm("tesseract.js");
    const worker = await createWorker();

    await worker.loadLanguage(language);
    await worker.initialize(language);

    const { data } = await worker.recognize(filePath);

    await worker.terminate();

    return data.text;
};

const languages = [
    { name: "Spanish", value: "spa" },
    { name: "French", value: "fra" },
    { name: "Portuguese", value: "por" },
    { name: "English", value: "eng" },
];
//@todo train a model for typescript (https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesstrain)

// if ctrl is pressed, show a modal to select a language
const selectedLanguage = flag.ctrl
    ? await arg("Select a language:", languages)
    : "eng";

// Hide the Kit modal before capturing the screenshot
await hide();

const filePath = await captureScreenshot();
if (!await pathExists(filePath)) exit()

const text = await recognizeText(filePath, selectedLanguage);

if (text) {
    await clipboard.writeText(text.trim());
    await notify("Text recognized and copied to clipboard");
} else {
    await notify("No text found in the screenshot");
}

// Clean up temporary file
await remove(filePath);