Import Espanso file via Tasker

[quintrino]

Hi,

probably a niche feature request, but could you make the import functionality visible to Tasker? Either as a Plugin or as an intent.

I have my espanso file automatically synced from my desktop to my mobile, but at the moment I have to manually import it whenever I make any changes.

It would be great if that was accessible via Tasker as then I could automate it to occur regularly.

[lochidev]

Hi. Sure I’ll attempt it next update. Unfortunately I can’t do it soon because at the moment university is giving me a ton of work and im very tired. I’ll definitely give it a try next update.

[quintrino]

Thanks so much for even attempting it! Do you have a donate link somewhere?

[lochidev]

Yes, it’s in the readme. But please consider donating only after I add the feature because i only accept donations for work that have been already completed 😅.

[quintrino]

Well then I'll just donate for what you've already done and have another one ready to go if you do this.

[lochidev]

Well then I'll just donate for what you've already done and have another one ready to go if you do this.

Thank you so much! 💙

[lochidev]

Through System → Send Intent,

Use these parameters,

Field:   Action
Value:   com.dingleinc.texttoolspro.IMPORT_CONFIG

Field:   Extra
Value:   config_string=my test config

Field: Class
Value: com.dingleinc.texttoolspro.ConfigImportReceiver

Field:   Package
Value:   com.dingleinc.texttoolspro

Field:   Target
Value:   Broadcast Receiver

For feedback use,

Event: Intent Received
Action: com.dingleinc.texttoolspro.CONFIG_RESULT

Underlying code is

Intent resultIntent = new Intent("com.dingleinc.texttoolspro.CONFIG_RESULT");
resultIntent.PutExtra("status", 0); // 
context.SendBroadcast(resultIntent);

%status will be 0 if successfully imported, or else it will be an error string like "failed to import".

Keep in mind when you use this, everything will be replaced and saved by "my test config" (make sure this is valid YML) and nothing before that will be recoverable, so make sure you backup your files.

Please test using the build: https://github.com/lochidev/Expandroid/releases/tag/v7.2.1 and let me know if everything works. Thanks!

EDIT: You can now download the update on google play as well.

[quintrino]

so just to confirm, I should replace my test config with the file location of the espanso file? something like /storage/emulated/0/Sync/espanso.yml?

And it sounds like every import will wipe all the previous entries, so I couldn't import espanso.yml and private.yml?

[lochidev]

Due to scoped storage in newer android versions, the app cannot access any files without explicit user permission. Therefore, "my test config" expects the contents of the file and NOT the file path. I don't think it's possible to access it and I didn't even try because of scoped storage. You will have to concatenate the contents of the files and substitute that with "my test config". For example: "my test config" should be replaced by the CONTENT of example config.yml. So if you want to import two files you'll need to do some processing (in tasker this should be possible maybe? I haven't really used tasker much). However, just combining the contents of espanso.yml and private.yml might work in your case.

Something like:

config_string=matches:
- trigger: :date
  replace: '{{date}}'