applescript

I'm trying to figure out how to click on the button in a webpage. For example click on the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button in google web page. This is what I have tried: tell application "Safari" make new document with properties {URL:"https://www.google.com/"} do JavaScript "eval(document.getElementById('I'm Feeling Lucky').parentNode.href.substring(11))" in document 1 delay 1 end tell But it doesn't work. Any of you knows how can I click on the button using applescript? I'll really appreciate your help jweaks Couple things: Best practice in the safari tell block is to also tell document 1. Also,

I'm computing some data in AppleScript that I'd like to then insert into a specific FileMaker record. Here's my AppleScript: on sendDataToFM(FileNameWithExtension, ClipLength) tell application "FileMaker Pro Advanced" show every record of database 1 show (every record whose cell "File Name" = FileNameWithExtension) repeat with i from 1 to (count record) set MatchingRecord to record i set data cell "CLIP LENGTH" of MatchingRecord to ClipLength end repeat end tell end sendDataToFM ... my sendDataToFM('Some Video.mov', '00:01:22.55') Everything works except the line set data cell "CLIP LENGTH" of

I need to get a list of keys (e.g. the shift key, alt, command ...) which have been pressed when i started an app, especially an ApplesScript on Mac OS X. A shorter form of Mike Woodfill's answer: set {shiftDown, ctrlDown, altDown, cmdDown} to words of (do shell script "python -c 'import Cocoa;m=Cocoa.NSEvent.modifierFlags();print m&Cocoa.NSShiftKeyMask>0,m&Cocoa.NSControlKeyMask>0,m&Cocoa.NSAlternateKeyMask>0,m&Cocoa.NSCommandKeyMask>0'") Note, that you get the modifiers as strings, so you have to compare them like this if (altDown = "True") then ... If you really want boolean modifiers, look

While one can simulate command-shift-` using System Events to change windows in Safari, is there no better way to do this with AppleScript? I can change the index of Safari's windows, this changes their ordering on the screen but does not make them active. Suppose you have two Safari windows containing about:blank -- how could you bring the one in the back to the front and make it active? Granted, command-shift-` works, so maybe there only needs to be one way to skin this cat. regulus6633 I also noticed that changing the index does reorder the windows however the new window does not actually

I'm trying to write a simple applescript script to get the contents of WriteRoom (a simple text editor) and run it through a markdown parser then copy the resulting html to the clipboard: tell application "WriteRoom" to activate tell application "System Events" to keystroke "a" using command down tell application "System Events" to keystroke "c" using command down set the clipboard to (do shell script "cd ~;echo \"" & (the clipboard) & "\" >> writeroom.md; /usr/local/bin/markdown writeroom.md") but when I run it I get an error sometimes : Can’t make {«class RTF »:«data RTF

Basically, I'm trying to create a folder action in Automator so whenever a file is added to a specific folder, it will create a subfolder that matches the filename (without the extension), then move the file into that subfolder. So far, I have successfully used a post from this site ( Create new folder named with a specified file name in Automator ) to create a script that will create the new folder. However, I have been unable to modify the script to move the original file into the new folder. Any help would be appreciated. Here is the full script I am working with for reference: on run

I'm trying to check if phone not from my contact list is registered in the iMessage. There is two general approaches that I've tryed. Send message to phone number if it's in buddy list on run argv set toAddress to "+380631111111" set message to "Test" tell application "Messages" set targetService to 1st service whose service type = iMessage set targetBuddy to buddy toAddress of targetService delay 1 if targetBuddy exists then send message to targetBuddy end if #delay 5 end tell end run Why it doesn't work? Even tho it can send messages by removing "delay 1" I don't want to spam users. With