Raycast Script Commands

Raycast lets you control your tools with a few keystrokes and Script Commands makes it possible to execute scripts from anywhere on your desktop. They are a great way to speed up every-day tasks such as converting data, opening bookmarks or triggering dev workflows.

This repository contains sample commands, community commands, and documentation to write your own ones.

Awesome Script Commands

You can find a lot of useful script commands built by our community here.

Want to contribute? What a brilliant idea, please see this contribution guide, it will help you with getting started.

Install Script Commands

To install new commands, follow these steps:

1. Open the Extensions tab in the Raycast preferences
2. Select the Script Commands extension
3. Click Add More Directories
4. Select the Script Command that you want to install

To get started, download one of the sample commands in this repository or write a custom script.

How to use this repository

Grab scripts that you want to use and copy them to a separate directory on your machine (you can use the _enabled-commands folder from this repo for this).

Note: We recommend against directly using script directories from this repo in Raycast to protect yourself from potential restructuring and new script commands suddenly appearing in Raycast.

Write Script Commands

To write your custom Script Commands, go over the following steps and follow the troubleshooting section if your script command does not show up in Raycast.

1. Create a new directory for your commands
2. Open the Extensions preferences in Raycast and select Script Commands
3. Click Add More Directories and select your new directory (If it's empty, we generate a template)
4. Duplicate the generated template and remove ".template." from the file name
5. Write your script
6. Press Reload in the Script Commands preferences
7. Run your Script Command from the Raycast root search

Important: Ensure your script is executable with chmod +x <path to script> and has a shebang at the top.

API

The following parameters are available to customize your Script Command in Raycast:

⚠️ Whenever you make changes to the parameters of the Script Command, trigger the "Reload Script Directories" command in root search (v0.33+), or press "Reload" in script commands preferences, or activate "Auto Reload" in preferences so that your scripts get automatically reloaded (v0.33+). Also note that "reloading" means that script metadata is parsed and Raycast search is refreshed – the actual scripts are only run when you manually trigger their command or when an inline command with refreshTime is automatically triggered.

Standard Output

You can use the standard output to present messages in Raycast. Depending on the mode, the standard output of your scripts is differently presented.

In fullOutput the entire output is presented on a separate view, similar to a terminal. This is handy when your script generates output to consume. In compact mode the last line of the standard output is shown in the toast. And in silent mode the last line (if exists) will be shown in overlaying HUD toast after Raycast window is closed.

In inline mode, the first line of output will be directly shown in the command item and automatically refresh according to the specified refreshTime. Tip: Set your dashboard items as favorites via the action menu in Raycast

Passing Arguments

Use argument[1..3] metadata to specify custom arguments that will be displayed as inputs in the search bar when the script is selected. Value of the argument metadata paratmeter should be valid json with these fields:

Maximum number of arguments: 3 (if you feel it's not enough for your use case, please let us know via feedback or in the Slack community)

Here's an example of a simple web search script with two arguments:

#!/bin/bash

# Required parameters:
# @raycast.schemaVersion 1
# @raycast.title Search Flights
# @raycast.mode silent

# Optional parameters:
# @raycast.icon 🛩
# @raycast.packageName Web Searches
# @raycast.argument1 { "type": "text", "placeholder": "from city", "percentEncoded": true }
# @raycast.argument2 { "type": "text", "placeholder": "to city", "optional": true, "percentEncoded": true }

open "https://www.google.com/search?q=flights%20from%20$1%20to%20$2"

Check the templates for additional examples with other script languages.

💡Pro tip: When typing alias + space, Raycast automatically will move focus to the first input field.

Error Handling

If the script exits with a status code not equal to 0, Raycast interprets it as failed and shows a toast that the script failed to run. If this script has inline or compact mode, the last line of the output will be used as an error message. Consider this example for bash script:

if ! [[ $value =~ $regex ]] ; then
  echo "Invalid value provided"
  exit 1
else
  ...

Login Shell and $PATH

The script is running in a non-login shell to avoid loading additional information from profiles. However, if you need to run your script as login-shell, you can specify an argument after shebang, e.g. #!/bin/bash -l for bash. We also append /usr/local/bin to $PATH variable so you can use your local shell commands without any additional steps. If this is not enough, you can always extend $PATH by adding export PATH='/some/extra/path:$PATH' at the top of your script.

👮‍♂️ We only allow Script Commands that run in a non-login shell in this repository as agreed on in our contribution guidelines.

Troubleshooting

If a script doesn't appear in the commands list, make sure these requirements are met:

• Script file is executable (you can run file <path to script> command in terminal to check it). To make the script executable, run: chmod +x <path to script>
• Filename doesn't contain .template. string
• All required metadata parameters are provided. See the table above which parameters are required.
• You use either # or // comments for metadata parameters
• You have reloaded the scripts, via 1) the "Reload" button in preferences or 2), the "Reload Script Directories" command in root search (v0.33+), or 3) automatically via the activated "Auto Reload" feature in preferences (v0.33+)

If nothing helps, try to go step by step from a template script command or use one of the examples in this repo.

Community

This is a shared place and we're always looking for new Script Commands or other ways to improve Raycast. If you have anything cool to show, please send us a pull request. If we screwed something up, please report a bug. Join our Slack community to brainstorm ideas with like-minded folks.