Applescript Safari Find action
Hi im new to applescript and im just wondering if anyone can help me out with my problem...
i was wondering if someone can show me how to make applescript continuously refresh a page in safari and everytime it refereshes a page.. it performs the "find" action to look for a certain text... and if its not there it repeats the "refresh and find" action until the text finally appears on the page - in which case the script would stop while the text im looking for remains highlighted.
hi there,
thank you for your reply.. but im not entirely sure how to adapt that cURL script to what i want to do.
basically while safari is open... i want the script to find lets say for example the number 164 (which keeps disappearing and appearing randomly on the page)
the script may be something along these lines:
tell application "Safari" to activate
tell application "System Events"
click menu item 8 of ((process "Safari")'s (menu bar 1)'s ¬
(menu bar item "Develop")'s (menu "Develop")'s ¬
(menu item "User Agent")'s (menu "User Agent"))
tell process "Safari"
repeat until name = "1 match" --on safari when you try and find something it will either say "not found"
or "1 match" or something... now i know this line is not correct so i just need help to make it so that if the find bar on safari
keeps returning "not found" then it should repeat the ones below until the find bar displays "1 match"
keystroke "r" using {command down}
keystroke "f" using {command down}
keystroke "164"
end repeat
end if
delay 5
end tell
end tell
the find bar or whatever its called looks something like this when the text is not on the page it will say "not found" like this image here: http://i30.tinypic.com/2hpr8yq.png
sorry if my message is getting long but basically my question now is... how do i make the message that gets displayed in that find bar the variable that determines whether the script should be repeated or stopped if a match or no match is found... let me know if im not making any sense lol.
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# © 2012 McUsr and put in Public Domain under GPL 1.0
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I think you're right.
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2) Calculate encoding parameters (slightly reduced bitrate, reduced Aspect etc.)
3) Using "run shell script" with ffmpeg on the command line and the calculated parameters to encode the video file
At the same time, the action is written to a log file so I know if a file is recognized, when encoding started etc.
It works fine if I save this Action as an .app, make an alias on the Desktop and drop video files on it.
It also works fine if I attach the script to a folder as a folder action and drag a video file in there.
However, when I attach the script as a folder action to the Vuze download folder, it encodes only some video files, i.e. if there was a download of 5 files, chances are good that it will not encode 1 or 2 files out of those 5.
If for example a second download finishes while the encoding for the first download is still going on, sometimes the second file starts encoding after the first encode finishes, sometimes it does not, the file does not make the log file at all, i.e. the folder action missed it or the automator action dropped it because it was still encoding. Still, sometimes it happens, sometimes not.
As I need a solution that is 100% accurate, I would like to ask if there are any ideas on how to do this better maybe? As I am not an Applescript Guru, I would need some help to know what works and what doesn't and what the syntax is.
My main idea right now:
Similar to how ffmpegX works with its "process" application, have a second script (as .app) that receives the files to be encoded from the automator action and puts them in a queue, then proceeds to encode this queue while the main automator action is free to receive the next file.
Writing this second app is quite straightforward (a modified version of my current script) but I have some questions I need help with:
1) How do I call another applescript from within an existing applescript that launches the new applescript in a new process?
2) How do I pass parameters to this new applescript?
3) In case of this "Queueing" Idea, once I called the external applescript the first time, how do I make sure when I call next time, that I don't open a second instance of this script but rather pass another queue item to the original instance to be processed?
Or in general: Is there a better way to achieve this automatic encoding solution that I have not thought about?
Alternatively:
Does anyone know how to call the "process" application that comes with the ffmpegX package with the correct parameters to use as a queueing / processing tool?
Thanks!
Joe
Message was edited by: Joe15000
Message was edited by: Joe15000To do this, I created an Automator workflow with an Applescript snippet to change the 'media kind'.
Here is the 'Run Applescript' workflow step code:
on run {input, parameters}
tell application "iTunes"
set video kind of (item 1 of input) to movie
end tell
return input
end run
Prior to this running, I have an 'Import Files into iTunes' workflow step.
You can switch out 'movie' with: 'TV show', 'music video', or anything in ITLibMediaItemMediaKind.
Good luck,
Glenn
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