fucking-quick-look-plugins

Category: Themed Directories
Tags: macOS, developer-tools, awesome-lists
Source: https://github.com/Correia-jpv/fucking-quick-look-plugins

Overview

fucking-quick-look-plugins is an awesome-style curated list of useful macOS Quick Look plugins focused on developer workflows. It aggregates plugins, their purposes, and GitHub popularity (stars and forks) to help developers quickly find and install Quick Look extensions that improve file previews in Finder.

Features

• Curated awesome-style list of Quick Look plugins specifically for developers.
• Focus on macOS Quick Look enhancements to improve file previews directly in Finder.
• Each plugin entry includes:
  • Brief description of what the plugin previews/enhances.
  • GitHub star and fork counts (when available).
  • Links to plugin repositories and/or download pages.
  • Homebrew installation commands when available.
  • Manual download links as an alternative to Homebrew.
• Includes installation instructions for:
  • Installing via Homebrew (brew install <package> or brew install --cask <package>).
  • Manual installation by placing plugins in ~/Library/QuickLook and running qlmanage -r to reload Quick Look.
• Provides macOS Catalina and later notes:
  • Shows how to inspect extended attributes on Quick Look plugins with xattr -r ~/Library/QuickLook.
  • Explains how to remove macOS quarantine attributes to get plugins working: xattr -d -r com.apple.quarantine ~/Library/QuickLook.
• Contains screenshots for some plugins to show how previews look in Finder.

Example Plugins Listed

From the visible portion of the content (the list is longer in the repository):

• QLStephen

  • Purpose: Preview plain text files without or with unknown file extensions (e.g., README, CHANGELOG, index.styl).
  • Install: brew install qlstephen or download from GitHub releases.
  • Extras: Screenshot included.

• QLMarkdown

  • Purpose: Preview Markdown (.md) files.
  • Install: brew install --cask qlmarkdown or download from GitHub releases.
  • Extras: Screenshot included.

• QuickLookJSON

  • Purpose: Preview JSON files.
  • Install: brew install quicklook-json or download from the project website.

Note: The full repository likely lists many more Quick Look plugins with similar structure (description, stars/forks, install methods).

Usage

• Browse the list to find Quick Look plugins relevant to your development workflow (e.g., Markdown, JSON, text, code, config formats).
• Install desired plugins via Homebrew or manual download.
• Place manually downloaded .qlgenerator plugins into ~/Library/QuickLook and run qlmanage -r to refresh Quick Look.
• On newer macOS versions (e.g., Catalina+), remove quarantine attributes if plugins don’t load.

Pricing

• The project itself is an open-source, free GitHub repository that curates links to various third-party Quick Look plugins.
• Individual plugins linked may have their own licenses, but from the provided content there are no paid plans or pricing tiers mentioned.