Raycast + Contextual commands

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Hello everyone,
I’m fascinated by the idea of contextual computing.
I’ve recently discovered an app named Raycast. It’s like Alfred or Spotlight but more extensible especially with custom scripts.

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In this video, I copy a URL of pull-request on GitHub, and Raycast shows me a custom command which checks out the branch and open it via VSCode.

What’s going on in the background:

  1. When I copy the URL, Keyboard Maestro is triggered by “clipboard change”. And it runs a script.
  2. Raycast watches a certain folder and uses files there as commands. Inside the script that is being run by KM, I check if the URL is GitHub pull-request. If so, I put a script file in the dedicated folder, which performs checking out and opening the branch.

These URL based contextual commands will be so much fun little hobby for me!

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