Wox: Feature request: Launch plugin directly programatically

[NickSeagull]

Hello, I was wondering if it was possible to implement launching plugins programatically with the current architecture.

The functionality would be the same as assigning hotkeys to keywords, but from any piece of software. This would allow integrating Wox with other apps, like, for example AutoHotKey.

The way I envision this is:

• Either allowing Wox to have some special command line flag that launches Wox with a specific query string, or
• Have Wox start some kind of server (HTTP, IPC, doesn't matter) and listen for a special message that triggers this. Perhaps the same server that listens for our JSON that is used for RPC.

If this is possible, I'm eager to give it a try implementing this feature, although I'd love to have some pointers. Wox is an awesome piece of software, and I'd love to help a little bit 😄 .

Thanks in advance!

[NickSeagull]

@bao-qian , what do you think about adding a flag to wox.exe, so it can start with some specific string already set?

For example, running wox would start it normally, but running it like wox wpm would start it with the wpm string.

[liberize]

upvote

[liberize]

I patched source code myself.
https://github.com/liberize/Wox/releases
give it a try:
Wox.exe -q 'wpm list'

[NickSeagull]

Wow! This is so cool @liberize , thanks!

Perhaps you can open a PR and it will get merged eventually?

[liberize]

@NickSeagull maybe later, need some code cleanup.

[bao-qian]

Hi @NickSeagull @liberize
this feature has been merged
check new release https://github.com/Wox-launcher/Wox/releases/tag/v1.3.792