Support for empty keyword about flashlight

[nate-parrott]

does this mean you want to always search google, no matter what's typed into Spotlight?

[shrx]

Yes, along with other results (Definition, Documents, Folders, ...) I'd like to have a google result (or some other search engine) as well.

[danjessen]

In Alfred, unmatched keywords default to google. It doesn't work the same way in Spotlight, where Spotlight always defaults to some kind of result.

[nate-parrott]

I think this can be done by adding !always_invoke to the google plugin's examples.txt, and returning dont_force_top_hit in the results json. terminal is the only plugin I can think of that does this.

[jaxbot]

This seems to work:

import urllib
import json
import i18n


def results(parsed, original_query):
    parsed = parsed["~googlequery"] if parsed else original_query

    url = "https://www.google.com/search?q="
    localizedurl = i18n.localstr(url)
    search_url = localizedurl + urllib.quote_plus(parsed.encode('UTF-8'))
    title = i18n.localstr(
        "Search {0} for '{1}'").format("Google", parsed.encode('UTF-8'))
    return {
        "title": title,
        "run_args": [search_url],
        "html": """
        <script>
        setTimeout(function() {
            window.location = %s
        }, 500);
        </script>
        """ % (json.dumps(search_url)),
        "dont_force_top_hit": True,
        "webview_user_agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 7_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/537.51.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/7.0 Mobile/11A465 Safari/9537.53",
        "webview_links_open_in_browser": True
    }


def run(url):
    import os
    os.system('open "{0}"'.format(url))

But whether or not that should be default is questionable.