Alfred Workflows Scraper

Extract data from Alfred Gallery — the official directory of macOS Alfred app workflows. Alfred is an award-winning productivity app for macOS, and its gallery hosts hundreds of community-built workflows for automation, search, clipboard management, developer tools, and more.

What does this scraper do?

This actor browses Alfred Gallery's public workflow listings, fetches detail pages, and extracts structured metadata for each workflow: title, description, author, version, tags, install URL, download URL, GitHub link, forum link, icon URL, and more. No authentication or API key is required.

Input

Field	Type	Description
mode	select	Required. search (filter by keyword) or browse (browse all/by tag)
query	string	Keyword to filter workflows by (mode=search). Matches title, description, tags, author
tag	select	Tag to filter by (mode=browse). E.g. ai, developer, productivity, git
maxItems	integer	Max workflow records to emit (1–10000, default 100)

Example: Search for GitHub workflows

{
  "mode": "search",
  "query": "github",
  "maxItems": 20
}

Example: Browse all developer workflows

{
  "mode": "browse",
  "tag": "developer",
  "maxItems": 50
}

Example: Browse all workflows

{
  "mode": "browse",
  "maxItems": 100
}

Output

Each record contains:

Field	Type	Description
workflowId	string	Unique identifier in author/slug format (e.g. vitor/wordsmith)
name	string	Workflow slug name
authorSlug	string	Author's Alfred Gallery username
author	string	Author's display name
title	string	Workflow display title
description	string	Short description of what the workflow does
version	string	Current version number
tags	array	List of category tags
iconUrl	string	URL to the workflow's icon image
installUrl	string	Direct Alfred install URL
downloadUrl	string	Direct download URL for the workflow file
githubUrl	string	GitHub repository URL (when available)
forumUrl	string	Alfred Forum discussion URL (when available)
websiteUrl	string	External website URL (when available, non-GitHub)
sourceUrl	string	Alfred Gallery page URL
recordType	string	Always workflow
scrapedAt	string	UTC ISO 8601 timestamp of when the record was scraped

Sample output

{
  "workflowId": "vitor/wordsmith",
  "name": "wordsmith",
  "authorSlug": "vitor",
  "author": "Vítor Galvão",
  "title": "Wordsmith",
  "description": "Local dictionary and thesaurus to lookup synonyms, antonyms, and definitions",
  "version": "26.1",
  "tags": ["dictionary", "thesaurus", "universal-actions"],
  "iconUrl": "https://alfred.app/workflows/vitor/wordsmith/icon.png",
  "installUrl": "https://alfred.app/workflows/vitor/wordsmith/install/",
  "downloadUrl": "https://alfred.app/workflows/vitor/wordsmith/download/",
  "githubUrl": "https://github.com/vitorgalvao/wordsmith-workflow/",
  "forumUrl": "https://www.alfredforum.com/topic/23150-wordsmith",
  "sourceUrl": "https://alfred.app/workflows/vitor/wordsmith/",
  "recordType": "workflow",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-05-30T12:00:00+00:00"
}

FAQ

Does this require an Alfred account? No. Alfred Gallery is publicly accessible without login.

What is Alfred? Alfred is a productivity app for macOS that provides hotkeys, keywords, text expansion, and custom workflow automation. Workflows require the paid Powerpack license.

What tags are available? Alfred Gallery organises workflows with 100+ tags including: ai, audio, automation, bookmarks, browser, clipboard, developer, dictionary, email, files, git, markdown, music, productivity, search, system, terminal, text, translation, utilities, video, web, and many more.

What's the difference between modes?

• search: scrapes all workflow listing pages then fetches detail pages for workflows matching your keyword filter.
• browse: scrapes workflow listing pages (optionally filtered by tag), then fetches detail pages for each.

Why does scraping take time? Alfred Gallery is HTML-based without a public JSON API. The actor must scrape listing pages to discover workflow IDs, then fetch individual detail pages for full metadata. A 300ms delay between requests is used to be polite to the server.

Are all available workflows included? The actor paginates through Alfred Gallery listing pages to discover workflows, subject to your maxItems limit. New workflows are added regularly to the gallery.

Data Source

All data is scraped from alfred.app — the official Alfred Gallery maintained by Running with Crayons Ltd. "Alfred" is a registered trademark of Running with Crayons Ltd.