[Feature] Building it with devdoc about alfred-docs-searches

[AjayShanker-geek]

Haha, I will look into if I am able to dump and convert in markdown. Hopefully I can use it markdown preview within Alfred

[chrisgrieser]

Huh, interesting. I once looked into devdocs, but didn't find any documentation on how to get their index. https://documents.devdocs.io/lang/index.json appears to be quite interesting. How did you find that one? Also any idea if there is a list of all available languages somewhere?

[AjayShanker-geek]

nvim-devdoc is the project I read.

[chrisgrieser]

I see. Huh, those indexes are undocumented, but if nvim-devdocs is using them, I guess they are good enough to use. List of languages/docs seems to be here: https://devdocs.io/docs.json

I'll see what I can do, does look pretty straightforward to implement.

[chrisgrieser]

Okay, I have completely rewritten the workflow to now use devdocs 😅

https://github.com/chrisgrieser/alfred-docs-searches/releases/download/2.0.0/alfred-docs-searches.alfredworkflow

[AjayShanker-geek]

Cool! That was fast

[chrisgrieser]

Had an empty Sunday for once 😅

[chrisgrieser]

Hmm, I think I prefer the current solution, since the Alfred window disappears as soon as switch to another app, while a browser tab persists, allowing you for example to switch between docs and your IDE.

Nonetheless, the current implementation still has much room for improvement, for instance it (mostly) lacks icons for the individual searches. The icons used by devdocs are too small to use for Alfred.

Also, I'd like to add shorter keywords for the docs, e.g. js for javascript. However, I am not familiar what the common shorthands are for the various languages, some sort of language → shorthand database would be great, but I am not aware of any.