![]() If X-condition(s) are true, then do Y-action(s).įor example, you can set up rules like the following: To use the app correctly, you just have to understand very basic if-then logic. Noodlesoft, the creators, describes it as “Automated Organization for Your Mac”, and that is a great tagline.Įssentially, you tell the Hazel app to watch a folder (or multiple folders), set some rules you want it to watch for, and when something happens in that folder that matches one of your rules, take an action (or actions) that you define. Now that we’ve hyped it up, the natural question is: “what the heck is it?” Who wants to be manually renaming and moving file after file? And when we don’t do it, we end up with a mess of unorganized and unfindable digital files. Hazel’s popularity is well-deserved: dealing with files is a pain. (By the way, it is a Mac automation app, but there is a similar Windows automation app called File Juggler. It is consistently in the top 10 of our Essential Apps list every year. ![]() It is one of our key applications to free up time, eliminate annoying manual tasks, and make the macOS experience better. For example, this will allow you to implement custom analytics on certain paths.When we do an internal poll of the Asian Efficiency team or ask our Dojo community for their favorite apps to be productive, there is one that is always near the top of the list: Hazel. You can add Hazel to an existing HTTP server, if you want. Since the Windows version of Squirrel (the software that powers auto updates inside Electron) requires access to a file named "RELEASES" when checking for updates, this endpoint will respond with a cached version of the file that contains a download link to a. This endpoint was specifically crafted for the Windows platform (called "win32" in Node.js). The same happens if the latest release doesn't contain a file for the specified platform. If the latest version of the application wasn't yet pulled from GitHub Releases, it will return the 204 status code. update/:platform/:versionĬhecks if there is an update available by reading from the cache. If the cache isn't filled yet or doesn't contain a download link for the specified platform, it will respond like /. I generally suggest using either atform ( more) or os.platform() ( more) to retrieve this string. download/:platformĪccepts a platform (like "darwin" or "win32") to download the appropriate copy your app for. The same happens if the latest release doesn't contain a file for the detected platform. If the latest version of the application wasn't yet pulled from GitHub Releases, it will return a message and the status code 404. downloadĪutomatically detects the platform/OS of the visitor by parsing the user agent and then downloads the appropriate copy of your application. Links to the repo, releases, specific cached version and direct downloads for each platform are present. Routes /ĭisplays an overview page showing the cached repository with the different available platforms and file sizes. You'll find a release containing a sub property named download_count with the amount of downloads as its value. Since Hazel routes all the traffic for downloading the actual application files to GitHub Releases, you can use their API to determine the download count for a certain release.Īs an example, check out the latest Hyper release and search for mac.zip. URL: The server's URL (for private repos - when running on Vercel, this field is filled with the URL of the deployment automatically). ![]()
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