I am trying to write an AppleScript that can add the current time to a folder's name.
on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving these_items
repeat with this_item in these_items
tell application "Finder"
set t to (time string of (current date))
set name of this_item to (t & " " & (name of this_item))
end tell
end repeat
end adding folder items to
I have added the script as a Folder Action for a specific folder so it will automatically rename every folder that is being put into it. But when I add a folder to the one with the script as a Folder Action the time is being added repeatedly until the folder's name is too long to add more characters to it. How can I make it so the time is only being added once?
Thank you in advance!
The problem is that every time the folder gets renamed, it triggers the Folder Actions to kick in again. My solution would be to disable the Folder Actions when items get added to the trigger folder, then after the folders get renamed... re-enable folder actions. This way the already re-named folders don't re-trigger the Folder Action to rename the already re-named folders.
This following AppleScript works for me.
on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving these_items
set t to (time string of (current date))
tell application "System Events"
set folder actions enabled to false
repeat with this_item in these_items
set name of this_item to (t & " " & (name of this_item))
end repeat
set folder actions enabled to true
end tell
end adding folder items to
NOTE: It's good practice to use System Events instead of Finder, anytime you can.
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I have a list, and I want which every element of this list (order number)
to run a search, grab text from chrome and navigate through a website using this order number.
I have already both script (A and B)
I thought I could just add my long script (B) to the first one, inside
repeat with theItem in theResult
Script B
end repeat
but this is not working, I get the error
Expected “end” but found “property"
Script B e.g :
tell application "Google Chrome"
tell front window's active tab to set infoGrab to execute javascript "document.getElementsByClassName('even')[2].innerHTML;"
end tell
set theText to Unicode text
set theSource to infoGrab
property leftEdge72 : "<a href=\"/"
property rightEdge72 : "\">"
set saveTID to text item delimiters
set text item delimiters to leftEdge72
set classValue to text item 2 of theSource
set text item delimiters to rightEdge72
set uniqueIDKey to text item 1 of classValue
set text item delimiters to saveTID
uniqueIDKey
and more.
I then tried to save script B in an independent script and run from script A like this
repeat with theItem in theResult
set the clipboard to theItem
set myScript to load script file ((path to desktop folder as text) & "SEARCH.scpt")
tell myScript
end tell
delay 30
end repeat
but this don't work neither, the script B since to ignore all repeat and delay and just run everything instantaneity with no action on goole chrome
Question : How to I get to do other action for each element of a list including text-delimiter and more.
PS : sorry if my post is confusing.
I think your script is flawed, since "Script B" does NOT use "theItem" variable from the repeat loop. So, "Script B" will return the same result for every item.
Your objective is not clear. Perhaps if you provided more details, with real-world example data of both the source HTML and the expected results we could provide better help.
IAC, why are you calling a script instead of using a handler?
Here's your scripts refactored to use a handler, as an example.
repeat with theItem in theResult
## You don't seem to use "theItem" in the Script B ##
# if so, then the getID() handler will return the same results for all items in this loop
set myID to my getID()
end repeat
on getID() -- was Script B
-- put in same script file, or in script library
-- does this need to have a parameter?
tell application "Google Chrome"
tell front window's active tab to set infoGrab to execute javascript "document.getElementsByClassName('even')[2].innerHTML;"
end tell
set theText to Unicode text
set theSource to infoGrab
set leftEdge72 to "<a href=\"/"
set rightEdge72 to "\">"
set saveTID to text item delimiters
set text item delimiters to leftEdge72
set classValue to text item 2 of theSource
set text item delimiters to rightEdge72
set uniqueIDKey to text item 1 of classValue
set text item delimiters to saveTID
return uniqueIDKey
end getID
run script alias ((path to desktop folder as text) & "SEARCH.scpt")
I have pretty much spent my entire Sunday trying to find an answer to this and I am now admitting defeat and asking for your help. I've read several examples on here and some other AppleScript sites but non of them seem to work when applied to this script. I do however put this down to me.
I'm trying to use the script below to watch a folder then send me an email when a new item has been added and it works just fine. The trouble I am having is getting it to ignore system [or hidden] folders.
I have removed my efforts to do this as they all kept breaking the whole thing, so the version below works but currently it will include hidden items.
property theName : "Name"
property theAddress : "name#company.com"
on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving added_items
set added_Items_List to {}
repeat with oneItem in added_items
set end of added_Items_List to name of (info for oneItem)
end repeat
set {TID, text item delimiters} to {text item delimiters, ", "}
set added_Items_List to added_Items_List as text
set text item delimiters to TID
set dateString to (current date) as string
set theBody to "There are new files in the FTP folder " & name of (info for this_folder) & ":" & return & return & added_Items_List
tell application "Mail"
set newMessage to make new outgoing message with properties {visible:true, subject:"New submissions on FTP: " & dateString, content:theBody}
tell newMessage
make new to recipient at end of to recipients with properties {name:theName, address:theAddress}
end tell
activate
send newMessage
end tell
end adding folder items to
Any help or direction would be much appreciated and hopefully others will benefit from a working solution.
For anyone who come across this post with a similar issue, you may find the answer to your problem on one of these posts.
Applescript System Events Returns .DS_Store - How can I ignore
How to I tell this Applescript to skip some files?
AppleScript : How to get files in folder without hidden files?
Hidden files start with a dot, just filter those items
on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving added_items
set added_Items_List to {}
repeat with oneItem in added_items
set fileName to name of (info for oneItem)
if fileName does not start with "." then
set end of added_Items_List to fileName
end if
end repeat
if (count added_Items_List) = 0 then return
....
But if the Finder on your machine does not show the hidden files by default you don't need the additional lines.
I have a dialog which opens to input and store user input(name).
Upon error (which is is either due to no name entered or the name already exists) i want the dialog to re-open. Finally, if the second attempt fails again, open a dialog which states that and exit.
The problem is, whether the name exists or does not, all 3 dialogs are ALWAYS displayed.
What am i missing?
try
display dialog "Specify a new folder name:" default answer "John The Dog"
set newName to (text returned of result)
on error errorMessage number errorNumber
end try
try
display dialog "Specify a DIFFERENT folder name:" default answer "John The Dog12"
set newName to (text returned of result)
on error errorMessage number errorNumber
end try
try
display dialog "NAME ALREADY EXISTS! The program will now exit." with icon caution buttons {"EXIT"}
end try
Thanks!
Try this. Note I did not test this but it should work. Just put this code in place of your code where you try to get the folder name.
You can basically create as many dialogTexts/defaultAnswers combinations as you want and it will work. Good luck.
-- get the names of all the folders in the targetFolder
tell application "Finder" to set targetFolderNames to name of folders of folder targetFolder
set dialogTexts to {"Specify a new folder name:", "Specify a DIFFERENT folder name:"}
set defaultAnswers to {"John The Dog", "John The Dog12"}
repeat with i from 1 to count of dialogTexts
display dialog item i of dialogTexts default answer item i of defaultAnswers
set newName to (text returned of result)
if newName is not "" and newName is not in targetFolderNames then exit repeat
if i is (count of dialogTexts) then
display dialog "NAME ALREADY EXISTS! The program will now exit." with icon caution buttons {"EXIT"} default button 1
return input
end if
end repeat
-- do something with newName
Is there a way to create a script that will change the preferences of iChat to run the script when a message is received?
In other words, I want to make a script to change the iChat preferences to enable the "Message Received.applescript" i have created. Wow, this is confusing. Let me simply this.
I want a script that does this:
Activate iChat
Open iChat Preferences
Move to "Alerts" tab
select event "Message Received"
turn on "Run applescript"
select a certain script from the script folder called "Message Receive.applescript"
please help?
You just need to edit iChat's plist file. defaults is a bit awkward for nested values so use System Events instead:
tell application "System Events"
set EventActions to property list item "EventActions" of property list file ((path to preferences folder from user domain as text) & "com.apple.iChat.plist")
repeat with e in {property list item "MessageNotification" of EventActions, property list item "SubsequentMessage" of EventActions}
make new property list item at end of e with properties {name:"RunAppleScript", value:true}
make new property list item at end of e with properties {name:"iChatAppleScriptsKey", value:{"~/Library/Scripts/iChat/Message Received.scpt"}}
end repeat
end tell
This will attach "Message Received.scpt" to both initial text invitations and subsequent messages - you could simplify it if you only wanted it for subsequent messages. Also note you may need to relaunch iChat for the change to take effect.
While trying to make an automator action that opens multiple tabs from selected text as input I ran into an applescript issue I wasn't able to solve for awhile. This includes the answer and I'm posting this here because I just wasn't able to find documentation on how to handle data in "input" for a receives selected "text" in "any application" automator action, everything is for files which comes in as a list already.
When putting an applescript action in, you get:
on run {input, parameters}
the problem here is that input isn't in a list format and trying to do anything with it breaks the script or throws an error. ie I can't do:
repeat with URL in input
set this_URL to URL
So how can I treat a list of selected text as a list of items?
the solution is first treat input as a string then break apart every paragraph.
on run {input, parameters}
set inputText to input as string
set URL_list to every paragraph of inputText
Without treating input "as string" first before doing "every paragraph of" it won't work.
Here's the end working script, replace the "some_url" with your own. You'll be able to select several lines of text in an editor and treat each one as a parameter to your fixed url opening each in a new safari tab. This could be expanded upon by having each line be delimited for multiple params on the url.
on run {input, parameters}
set inputText to input as string
set URL_list to every paragraph of inputText
tell application "Safari"
activate
repeat with URL in URL_list
set this_URL to URL
# extra processing of URL could be done here for multiple params
my new_tab()
set tab_URL to "http://some_url.com?data=" & this_URL
set the URL of document 1 to tab_URL
end repeat
end tell
return input
end run
on new_tab()
tell application "Safari" to activate
tell application "System Events"
tell process "Safari"
click menu item "New Tab" of ¬
menu "File" of menu bar 1
end tell
end tell
end new_tab
As an example say you had the list and had a service of the above using "http://stackoverflow.com/posts/" & this_URL
6318162
6318163
6318164
you could now select them click services and choose your "StackOverflow - view questions" service and it'll append and open each one in a new safari tab. In my case I needed to verify multiple dns entries in our server as still valid and do a bunch of whois lookups.
I was looking for the same thing, just for files as input from Automator to AppleScript.
ddowns's trick didn't work for that, but ended up using this, hope it's helpful for someone looking for solving the same issue I ran into:
on run {input, parameters}
-- create empty list
set selectedFiles to {}
-- add each list item to the empty list
repeat with i in input
copy (POSIX path of i) to end of selectedFiles
end repeat
-- show each item (just for testing purposes of course)
repeat with currentFile in selectedFiles
display dialog currentFile as text
end repeat
end run
As Hanzaplastique says, for AppleScript within Automator, you don't need the Safari AppleScript because there's an Action for that. I use the following Actions:
Extract URLs from Text (actually the 'Extract Data from Text' Action)
Run AppleScript
Display Webpages
I use it as a Workflow added to the Services menu so that I can right-click on selected text in an email and open multiple URLs in Safari tabs.
In particular, I get Server / WordPress updates in an email but the URLs are just the top level of the domains and I want to jump to the plugins page of WordPress. So, my AppleScript (with thanks to Hanzaplastique) is:
on run {input, parameters}
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {return & linefeed, return, linefeed, character id 8233, character id 8232}
-- create empty list
set selectedFiles to {}
-- add each list item to the empty list
repeat with i in input
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {" "}
set i to i & "/wp-admin/plugins.php"
copy i to end of selectedFiles
end repeat
return selectedFiles
end run
I found I needed the 'return selectedFiles'. The always mysterious (to me) text delimiters may not be necessary and come from the previous version which only pulled out a single URL.