Alfred Text OTP

Alfred workflow for extracting OTPs from text messages.

The preview on right is optional, and only shows up if you have AlfredExtraPane.app installed.

Prerequisites

Before the workflow can be used, you'll need to provide Alfred with Full Disk Access privileges.

Run the following command in terminal to open the preference pane:

open 'x-apple.systempreferences:com.apple.preference.security?Privacy_AllFiles'

Warning

Full Disk Access is used to provide Alfred with access to the Messages database. However, by providing Alfred with this access, you are providing ALL access to Alfred workflows — not just this one.

Be sure you trust your installed workflows before allowing this.

Installation

Run the following command in terminal:

curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mr-pennyworth/alfred-text-otp/main/install.sh | sh

Related

• Simple 2FA Paste is an Alfred workflow that does the same as this workflow, but has the limitation (as documented on their site):

  Starting with macOS Ventura, Apple changed the format of the underlying database (chat.db) where now it saves an encoded version of the message in attributedBody column instead of the simpler, unencoded text column. text is still populated when the message is first received, but gets converted to attributedBody at some later time. This workflow will not find such converted messages.

• 2FA Read Code is another workflow that has the same limitation as the one above.
• Mouseless Messenger is an Alfred workflow that allows you to read messages in Alfred and send messages from Alfred. It doesn't extract OTPs, but contains the code to deal with attributedBody column in the chat.db database.