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macOS Sierra Spotlight extensions

Unfortunately I could not find anything up-to-date online about this topic. Similar to the question stated here: OS X Yosemite Spotlight extensions, is it possible by now to extend Spotlight on macOS Sierra?

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cocoseis Avatar asked Oct 17 '16 11:10

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Yes it is. Github user w0lfSchild is still actively maintaining this project: https://github.com/w0lfschild/Flashlight, which also allows writing your own plugins. It is actually a fork of the Flashlight project mentioned in the post you linked to

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Tim Nederveen Avatar answered Sep 24 '22 19:09

Tim Nederveen