Using Yammer with Quicksilver

Friday, January 30th, 2009

We use (and really like) Yammer at work.

I couldn’t find a Quicksilver plugin for it, and I noticed that Yammer’s API was pretty similar to Twitter’s API, so I checked to see if there was Quicksilver->Twitter integration. There was one (which I installed anyway, since I use twitter myself) over at codahale.com.

So here it is, modified to work with Yammer’s (different) API:

Yammer.scpt

  1. Grab the file and put it in your ~/Library/Application Support/Quicksilver/Actions/ folder.
  2. Rescan Quicksilver’s catalog. (Easy way, click it’s dock icon, then CMD-R.) If this does not work, try restarting Quicksilver.
  3. Create the login name and password:
    1. Start the Application Keychain Access (use quicksilver!)
    2. Create a new entry:
      Item name: http://yammer.com
      Account name: yourname@yourdomain.com
      Password: If I have to tell you what goes here, stop reading now
  4. Now start Quicksilver, type the period (.) to get a text entry box, type your text, Tab, and type Yammer (or as much of it as you need to.) The first time you’ll probably be asked for confirmation to let the tool access the password. Say ‘always allow’ and enjoy.

Filed under: Tech by Joshua Barratt

4 Responses to “Using Yammer with Quicksilver”

  1. Jim Patterson, on January 30th, 2009 at 5:34 PM Said:

    Sweet!

    Although Yammer will be deprecating its support for http basic authentication for its API very soon in favor of OAuth.

    Any chance you could modify this to work with OAuth?

  2. Joshua Barratt, on January 30th, 2009 at 5:39 PM Said:

    Ah, very nice. I much prefer that model.

    I’ll see what I can do and update you if so.

  3. Amit Gupta, on November 7th, 2009 at 8:55 PM Said:

    The script seems to have disappeared. Not found. :(

    Amit

  4. admin, on November 10th, 2009 at 12:36 PM Said:

    Yipes, restored now. I refactored the blog a bit ago and appear to have have trashed that directory.

    Sadly, I don’t think the technique works anymore, as they switched to Oauth. I stopped using Yammer (viva Prologue 2 Wordpress Theme) so hadn’t bothered to upgrade it. I’ll leave it up as a reference….

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