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Mealie Search

Search and view Mealie recipes

Version 2025.11 by FireFingers21

This workflow requires jq.

Alfred can help manage Homebrew dependencies once the workflow is installed.

Setup

Set the Base URL and API Token of your Mealie installation in the Workflow’s Configuration. You can generate an API Token from your Mealie user profile under API Tokens.

Usage

Search for your Mealie recipes via the mealie keyword.

Searching for Mealie recipes

Type to refine your search. Recipes are always searchable by Title, while filtering by Description, Categories, Tags, and Tools is configurable from the Workflow’s Configuration.

Narrowing search for Mealie recipes

  • Open recipe in Alfred.
  • Open recipe in browser.
  • Delete recipe from Mealie.

Recipes can be viewed directly within Alfred. This includes a list of Prep Times, Ingredients, Required Tools, Step-by-Step Instructions, and Notes.

Viewing Mealie Recipe

  • Open recipe in browser.
  • Refresh recipe data.

Append :: to the configured Keyword to access other actions, including manually reloading the recipes cache.

Other actions

Configure the Hotkey as a shortcut for searching your recipes. Use the Universal Action to import URLs into Mealie from Alfred’s Clipboard History or selected text.

Using the Universal Action