Import from TextExpander, CSV fails, no .textexpander file available

[peternlewis]

I don't believe those macros work on TextExpander exports, but I could be wrong. They work on a list of lines containing the shortcut and the expansion (or the name, shortcut and expansion).

There is this one:

"Import TextExpander Group" Macro

Updated 2016-04-20: v1.0.3 adds versioning comment/changelog, improved action titles, status menu trigger (shown when Finder is active), renamed root group Like several others, I'm one of those looking for an alternative to TextExpander now that they've gone subscription-only (haven't been happy with any of the dedicated expansion apps, and I've always wanted to try Keyboard Maestro, so...). However, I couldn't find an easy way to convert my TextExpander snippets to Keyboard Maestro expansions…

Though that is from quite a long time ago, I have no idea if it still works.

I would suggest you export your expansions to a csv, and then look at that in BBEdit (or Numbers), and figure out how to change that so that so that it is lines of:

shortcut:expansion

and then use my macro here:

Create Text Expansions Macro

Here is a macro that lets you create simple text expansion macros. Simply fill in the text of the action with lines like: trigger:text where trigger is the Typed String trigger you want and text is the text you want to expand to. Then select all the actions and click the Try button at the bottom to run them once and it will create a macro for each expansion. There is no trigger on the macro since its not going to be a macro you want to run except occasionally. Note that to create a new exp…

to create the expansions, perhaps dealing with any that don't transfer well.