You can use the keyboardmaestro CLI Tool to trigger or edit macros.
The keyboardmaestro command line tool is included within the Keyboard Maestro.app package, in the Contents/MacOS folder, so if the Keyboard Maestro.app package is installed in the normal location in the /Applications folder, the path to the command will be:
/Applications/Keyboard Maestro.app/Contents/MacOS/keyboardmaestro
You might like to make a link from the /usr/local/bin folder like this:
sudo ln -s '/Applications/Keyboard Maestro.app/Contents/MacOS/keyboardmaestro' /usr/local/bin/keyboardmaestro
Or include an alias to the command like this:
alias keyboardmaestro='/Applications/Keyboard\ Maestro.app/Contents/MacOS/keyboardmaestro'
then:
keyboardmaestro [options...] <macro name/uid>
Like most CLI tools, you can ask for help by passing the argument --help. The arguments are:
| Short | Long | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| -a | –async | Do not wait for macro to complete |
| -e | –edit | Edit the macro instead of triggering it |
| -h | –help | Show the help message |
| -p | –parameter <value> | Pass value as the %TriggerValue% parameter.\ Use - to read the value from stdin |
| -v | –verbose | Show debugging information |
| -V | –version | Show version number |
This command will edit or trigger a Keyboard Maestro macro as specified.
The macro name can be the name of a unique macro, the UUID of a macro, or the XML of an action to execute.
In edit mode, the macro name can be the name or UUID of a macro, macro group or smart macro.