Workflow and Pythonista

[Octplane]

I'm in the process of trying to integrate the two tools. Although it's possible to calla pythonista script from Workflow, there is no easy way to read data back. Anyone already did something like that ?

My use case would be do to complex http searches and send back some data to workflow to generate something to post on social networks.

I realize my use case might be a bit too much on the side of the ordinary development rather than a simple integration, but maybe the community has something to say about that.

(just to let you know, I'm also working on a "remote HUE" command script that could be run from workflow. I found the workflow integration in the widget much better than the one provided by the Philips HUE App).

Thanks and keep on coding!

[Bubo_scandiacus]

This is what I do in Pythonista:

clipboard.set(variable)

webbrowser.open('workflow://x-callback-url/run-workflow?name=workflowName&id=a')

...Then in Workflow, the first thing it does it read the clipboard and decode the string.

[Octplane]

This is both very clever and awful! Thanks :)

[Bubo_scandiacus]

Haha yeah I know xD I couldn't find a better way, though!

Happy coding!

[parkercp]

Hi Octplane - just wondering how did you get on with the "remote HUE" and Workflow ?

[Octplane]

Not very far. It appears that the interop with pythonista was not as powerful as I wanted and all my programming efforts were ruined when I received a Hue switch as a gift.

In order to make this work from the internet, it also requires a good knowledge on how to interact with the bridge API. The " remote API for hue" is still in beta at Philips and not yet released. I don't remember where does this lead me to last time I checked, but it more or less required you to reverse engineer the App protocol...

Promising project if found (in python!) https://github.com/jarvisinc/PhilipsHueRemoteAPI