Twitter Toolkit for Alfred

The Twitter Toolkit for Alfred lets you quickly interact with Twitter through its website, Mac app, and Tweetbot.

It makes it easy to quickly search and find your own content or the content of people you follow (shown using my Chirp Theme):

This workflow doesn't support programmatic access to Twitter, like tweeting directly or sending DMs. For that kind of integration, try AlfredTweet by David Ferguson.

Installation

1. Download latest release here.
2. Double-click the .alfredworkflow to install it.

You will need to be an Alfred Powerpack user to enable this workflow.

Configuration

Once the workflow is installed, launch Alfred Preferences, choose Workflows and then select Twitter Toolkit.

➊ Access the Workflow Environment Variables in the top right of the window:

Set your username and user ID

This workflow makes it easy to search your own tweets or find content from the people you follow ("followees").

➋ To configure this feature, you must set the account variable in the configuration to your own username.

➍ Set the userId variable to your own user ID. You can find this number if you navigate to a Twitter.com message thread and look at the number after messages/ and to the left of the hyphen in the URL.

Platform selection

This workflow supports interacting with Twitter on the web, Twitter for Mac, or Tweetbot. If a keyword is not supported by a certain platform, it will fallback to the web.

➌ Set the platform variable to web, app or tweetbot .

Keywords

The following keywords are used to interact with the Twitter Toolkit.

Modifier keys change the behavior as described, and subtext will appear in Alfred to help guide your interaction.

⌥ is typically used to scope content to your own content.

⌘ is typically used to scope content from people you follow.

⇧ is used to toggle the nearby scope.

Keyword	Modifier	Description
!		View my Twitter Notifications	☑️	☑️	☑️
@		Go to Twitter user @{query}	☑️	☑️	☑️
@	⌥	Search Twitter users for @{query}	☑️	☑️	☑️
#		Search Twitter for #{query}	☑️	☑️
#		Go to #{query}	☑️
#	⌘	Search my tweets for #{query}	☑️
$		Search Twitter for ${query}	☑️	☑️	☑️
access		Access accessibility, display and language settings	☑️
account		Access your Twitter account settings	☑️
analytics		Go to Twitter Analytics	☑️
birdwatch		Go to Birdwatch	☑️
bookmarks		Go to Twitter Bookmarks	☑️	☑️	☑️
connect		See Who to Follow on Twitter	☑️
data		Download your Twitter data	☑️
dm		Compose a Twitter message	☑️	☑️
dms		Go to Twitter messages	☑️	☑️	☑️
download		Download your Twitter data	☑️
embed		Embed tweet	☑️
explore		See what’s happening	☑️	☑️
follow		Follow @{query} on Twitter	☑️		☑️
help		Go to Twitter Help Center	☑️
home		Go to Twitter Home	☑️	☑️	☑️
images		Search Twitter images for {query}	☑️	☑️
images	⌥	Search my Twitter images for {query}	☑️	☑️
images	⌘	Search Twitter images from people I follow for {query}	☑️	☑️
inbox		Go to Twitter messages	☑️	☑️	☑️
lists		View Suggested Twitter Lists	☑️	☑️
likes		View my Twitter Likes	☑️		☑️
lists	⌥	View my Twitter Lists	☑️		☑️
lists	⌘	View Twitter Lists You’re On	☑️
me		View my profile on Twitter	☑️	☑️	☑️
me	⌥	Copy my Twitter profile link	☑️
media		Go to Twitter Media Studio	☑️
my		Search people I follow for {query}	☑️	☑️
messages		Go to Twitter messages	☑️	☑️	☑️
my		Search my top tweets for {query}	☑️	☑️
my		Search my recent tweets for {query}	☑️
my		Search my tweets for #{query}	☑️	☑️
my		Search my Twitter videos for {query}	☑️	☑️
my		View my Twitter Likes	☑️		☑️
my		View my Twitter Media	☑️
my		View my Twitter Moments	☑️
my		View my Twitter Lists	☑️	☑️	☑️
my		View my Twitter Bookmarks	☑️	☑️	☑️
my		View my Twitter Notifications	☑️	☑️	☑️
nearby		Search nearby Twitter photos for {query}	☑️	☑️
nearby		Search nearby Twitter videos for {query}	☑️	☑️
nearby		Search nearby Twitter people for {query}	☑️	☑️
new		New Tweet with text {query}	☑️	☑️	☑️
notifs		View my Twitter Notifications	☑️	☑️	☑️
notifs		Access your Twitter notification settings	☑️
photos		Search Twitter photos for {query}	☑️
photos	⌘	Search Twitter photos from people I follow for {query}	☑️
photos	⇧	Search nearby Twitter photos for {query}	☑️
privacy		Access your Twitter privacy settings	☑️
reply		Create a link in-reply-to a Tweet	☑️
resources		Access additional Twitter resources	☑️
security		Access your Twitter security settings	☑️
social		Search top tweets from my extended network for {query}	☑️
settings		Access Twitter settings	☑️
top		Search top tweets for {query}	☑️	☑️
top	⌥	Search top tweets from people I follow for {query}	☑️	☑️
top		Search top tweets from last week from people I follow for {query}	☑️	☑️
topics		View my Twitter Topics	☑️	☑️
topics		Go to Topic Picker	☑️
trending		See what’s happening	☑️	☑️
trending	⌥	See what’s happening for you	☑️
trusted		Search top tweets from my trusted network for {query}	☑️
tweet		Compose new Tweet	☑️	☑️	☑️
tweets		Search Twitter for {query}	☑️	☑️	☑️
tweets		Search top tweets from people I follow for {query}	☑️	☑️
tweets		Search recent tweets from people I follow for {query}	☑️	☑️
tweets	⌥	Search my recent tweets for {query}	☑️
unfollow		Unfollow @{query} on Twitter			☑️
users		Search Twitter users for {query}	☑️	☑️
users	⌘	Search Twitter users I follow for {query}	☑️	☑️
users	⇧	Search nearby Twitter people for {query}	☑️	☑️
verified		Search top tweets from verified users for {query}	☑️
videos		Search Twitter videos for {query}	☑️	☑️
videos		Search Twitter videos from people I follow for {query}	☑️	☑️
videos	⇧	Search nearby Twitter videos for {query}	☑️	☑️
videos	⌘	Search my Twitter videos for {query}	☑️	☑️

Tips

One of the most convenient features of this workflow is the ability to quickly search for your own tweets and tweeted media. By using the my keyword followed by search terms, you can quickly continue previous threads or link to things you said before.

Changelog¹

[v0.3.9] - 2022-04-13

Added

• Added likes keyword as synonym for me to "See my Twitter Likes"
• Added topic keyword to "See Twitter Topic Picker" (#9)

[v0.3.8] - 2021-08-26

Added

• Added lists keyword to "See which Lists I'm on" and to "View my Lists"
• Added connect keyword to "See Who to Follow" (h/t @nima_owji)
• Added tweet keyword (which takes a URL to a tweet) to create a beautiful image using @rang_ali's Poet.so.

[v0.3.7] - 2021-06-19

Added

• Added validator keyword to access Twitter's Card validator.
• Added several keywords for accessing Settings on the web:
  • access
  • account
  • data
  • download
  • notifs
  • privacy
  • resources
  • security
  • settings

Changed

• Trimmed whitespace for @ keyword.

[v0.3.6] - 2021-05-04

Added

• Added keyword @ view user's profile photo
• Added birdwatch List Filter
• Added my Birdwatch notes access
• Added shift modifier to @ keyword to view user's profile photo
• Added verified icon
• Added {var:actionPrefix}

Changed

• Edited domain variable to include trailing slash for consistency.
• Added {var:service} to videos searches
• Capitalized "Tweet" and other nouns
• Set userId to not export

[v0.3.5] - 2021-01-03

Added

• Added search for latest hashtagged tweets using my keyword
• Added new searches:
  • for top post from the last week from people you follow with keyword top (h/t @wongmjane)
  • for top post from my extended network with keyword social (h/t @IgorBrigadir)
  • for top post from my trusted network with keyword trusted
  • for top post from verified users with keyword verified
• Added search for cashtags using $ keyword

Changed

• Added text for my search to include 'Top' label
• Changed Worflow icon
• Changed OneUpdater to look for recent GitHub releases

[v0.3.4] - 2020-11-26

Added

• Added synonym keywords inbox and messages
• Added keyword reply to create a new status in-reply-to a tweet
• Added keyword new for composting a new tweet; added {query} to this object to preview text

Changed

• Updated OneUpdater to new repository
• Updated Twitter and Tweetbot icons

Fixed

• Tweak the way me works to take an optional argument.
• Replaced several instances of "Twitter" with {var:service}
• Hooked up OneUpdater so it'll do its thing!

[v0.3.3] - 2020-09-17

Fixed

• Quick fix for errant curly brace in Go to hashtag query.

[v0.3.2] - 2020-09-07

Fixed

• Quick fix for missing non-personalized users query.

[v0.3.1] - 2020-09-06

Fixed

• Replaced "(from:{var:account})" with "from:{var:account}" (no parens) from app searches.
• Fixed on errant search that targeted videos rather than all tweets.

[v0.3.0] - 2020-09-04

Added

• Support for Tweetbot URL Schemes by setting tweetbot as platform variable (thanks @bemawr!) (Closes #3)
• Support for nearby searches:
  • tweets
  • photos
  • videos
  • users
• keywords to go to:
  • hashtag page
  • topics
  • Alternative keyword ! for notifs
• Descriptive notes in Workflow
• OneUpdater (Closes #6)

Changed

• Added service and domain variables to make it easier to develop other Toolkits
• Drastically increased support for Twitter for Mac thanks to new routes included in 8.34 (thanks @nolanobrien!) (Closes #4)

Removed

• followees keyword

[v0.2.0] - 2020-08-17

Added

• All new icons!
• Support for new keywords: analytics, explore, help, media, notifs
• New additions to the "my" collection: Bookmarks, Lists, Moments, Notifications

[v0.1.0] - 2020-08-06

• Initial Release

About

This workflow is unaffiliated with nor endorsed by Twitter.

You can file bugs or submit feature requests on GitHub using the label workflow:twitter-toolkit.

Alfred Forum link.