Alfred GIF Search

Search for GIFs and animated stickers on Tenor and Giphy from Alfred.

Here's an example of searching and inserting a GIF in a google doc:

Animated stickers are also GIFs, but they typically tend to have a transparent background. Here's an example of how animated stickers look like:

Installation

1. Download the latest release.
2. In Alfred, run .setup-gif-search.

Giphy Setup

• To search Giphy, you first need to obtain a (free) API key.
• Set the API key as a workflow variable named giphy_key.

Usage

• In Alfred, one of the following keywords followed by search query:
  • gif: search Tenor for GIFs
  • giphy: search Giphy for GIFs
  • sticker: search Tenor for stickers
  • gsticker: search Giphy for stickers
• Press ↩.
• Use arrow keys or mouse to browse the GIFs.
• To copy the selected GIF to clipboard:
  • either ⌘↩
  • or ⌘-click
• To copy the URL of selected GIF to clipboard:
  • either ⌥↩
  • or ⌥-click
• To drop the GIF into apps that support it:
  • drag from Alfred and drop into that app

Note

Firefox and Chrome don't support pasting GIFs from clipboard. That is, if you copy a GIF to clipboard and paste it, it shows up as a static image, not an animated GIF. This is not a bug in this workflow, but rather just the way these browsers have decided to handle GIFs.

Both Chrome and Firefox support drag-n-drop. If you use either of these browsers, sorry, you gotta use the mouse!