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Hammerspoon

Hammerspoon

Absurdly powerful OS X automation app.

5.0
•2 reviews•

2 followers

Absurdly powerful OS X automation app.

5.0
•2 reviews•

2 followers

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Staggeringly powerful OS X desktop automation with Lua. Making the runtime, funtime.
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Launched in 2017View 2 launches
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Hammerspoon

Powerful automation of Mac OS
Hammerspoon is a desktop automation tool for macOS. It bridges various system level APIs into a Lua scripting engine, allowing you to have powerful effects on your system by writing Lua scripts.
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Launch tags:
Mac•Productivity•Open Source
Launch Team
Manu EbertChris Jones

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Manu Ebert
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I replaced four different tools with Hammerspoon - it handles my window management (replacing Slate), inserting Snippets (replacing TextExpander), keeping my Mac await when necessary (replacing Caffeine), and handles various app specific scripting (replacing an overgrown AppleScript mayhem). I sync my configuration between Macs, so that when I get a new machine it works exactly like the old one out of the box.
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5yr ago
Seb Jachec
Seb Jachec
Daybridge

Daybridge

@maebert How does this compare to your previous AppleScripts?
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5yr ago
Jonathan Baillie Strong
Jonathan Baillie Strong
I used to love using autohotkey on Windows before switching to Mac but had never realized there was a Mac equivalent until now. Thanks for hunting this!
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5yr ago
Kristian Gerardsson
Kristian Gerardsson
Landen

Landen

Have used it for 2-3 years, LOVE IT! It was when i switch to Mac, looking for an alternative to "AutoHotKey". Btw, you should make a community page where we can share our config/functions :)
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5yr ago
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Hammerspoon Powerful automation of Mac OS

Launched on November 28th, 2019

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5.0
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KeyFlow
Geoffrey Nwachukwu
Geoffrey Nwachukwu
used Hammerspoon to buildKeyFlowKeyFlow
(70 points)
The macOS version of this plugin uses Hammerspoon to automate/remap keyboards in Photoshop
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2mo ago
Vinicius Stutz
Vinicius Stutz
•11 reviews
A complete, versatile, and modular tool. Allows you to do practically anything on macOS.
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4mo ago