applescript Questions

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I'm trying to figure out how to get the current space # from mission control. Source would be helpful, but more helpful would be info on how to figure this out myself. I've written a few applescrip...
Trapan asked 20/7, 2011 at 21:17

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I've tried searching for this, and have seen others with similar problems but don't seem to have found an answer anywhere.... I have an AppleScript that I am trying to run over ssh so that I can r...
Nancee asked 13/11, 2013 at 15:10

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My code looks like this tell application "Firefox" open location "http://rubyquicktips.tumblr.com/" end tell But if I have Firefox open, the link will open in a new tab. But I...
Duchess asked 5/9, 2010 at 10:36

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I can open a Terminal tab using the following AppleScript: tell application "Terminal" set myTab to do script "exec sleep 1" get myTab end tell This returns a string like: tab 1 of window id 3...
Aile asked 26/4, 2010 at 10:26

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I'm looking for a way to dump (export) the contents of an OS X keychain into a file that I can easily process elsewhere, such as tab-delimited plaintext or something of the sort. The Keychain Acce...
Dormitory asked 4/4, 2009 at 13:37

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I made an app with AppleScript called FRIDAY. When I tell it to 'open chrome', it opens google chrome, this is working on Script Editor and out side of script editor. I can also tell it to 'open a ...

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I'm trying to write a plugin for emacs that displays a notification using OS X's native notification display. I've run into terminal-notifier which works, but it's a dependency that doesn't work ...
Krems asked 18/2, 2018 at 20:20

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I'm trying to write a script that splits the current + all next tabs into a new window — which would be super useful for organization. It is perfectly possible to get the URLs of the current and a...
Cence asked 6/1, 2019 at 21:27

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This is probably a total newbie question but here it is. I am making a pure applescript application. It activates another app and then types. The problem is that when it activates the app, it doesn...
Outturn asked 19/2, 2013 at 0:38

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One line summary - I'm looking for a way to get AppleScript itself to reveal the name it expects a specific piece of window content (UI element) to be referred to as in a "tell" statement. How do ...
Microwatt asked 14/2, 2017 at 16:19

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I have the following, not working. It opens up a new tab in Terminal but the variable $DomainName is not passed in? DomainName="example.com" osascript -e 'tell application "Terminal&...
Roentgenology asked 5/5, 2021 at 18:0

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I'm trying to send the spacebar key to an application without activating it first. The following code almost does what I want but it brings the application to the foreground first. tell applicatio...
Hamper asked 14/2, 2011 at 19:23

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I'm not looking for too much help today just a simple command, I already have the bare bones to what I need. So Really simple question I am writing an AppleScript that sets my wallpaper based on th...
Tearle asked 28/9, 2014 at 11:50

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I am trying to recursively remove all the tags (one of the new features of OS X 10.9) from all the contents of a folder. As there are many files in the folder (and folders which contain further fil...
Franni asked 5/11, 2013 at 7:51

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I'm trying to return the information of the current iTunes Track, which is playing on my computer. I can get single informations like this: tell application "iTunes" get name of current track end...
Petitioner asked 16/1, 2016 at 14:50

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I was just wondering how someone would go about finding all the applications that are installed on Mac OS X 10.5 using preferably applescript and output all their application names to a text file. ...
Heck asked 9/8, 2010 at 21:21

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I'm trying to make an applescript that let's me change the desktop picture to a random picture in a folder on my hard drive tell application "Finder" set desktopPictures to folder "Path:To:Deskt...
Zurkow asked 9/9, 2013 at 19:18

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I've got a shell script that I call that uses osascript, and that osascript calls a shell script and passes in a variable that I've set in the original shell script. I don't know how to pass that v...
Nonmoral asked 21/6, 2013 at 19:19

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I have some AppleScript code that I'm executing with osascript. This is part of a larger Perl program. I'd like to be able to print to stdout from the AppleScript, then have the Perl script process...
Ciapas asked 7/1, 2012 at 2:32

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I need to get a count of all windows per application. Every way I've tried to do this, I only get a count of windows that are assigned to the current (Mission Control) Desktop. (I'm currently runni...
Whichsoever asked 12/12, 2013 at 21:26

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In OS X 10.8 I had a neat little AppleScript that I used to toggle Bluetooth quickly without using the mouse. I updated to 10.9 which added several UI changes to System Preferences. Among other th...
Hustle asked 3/11, 2013 at 11:29

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This is intended as an extension of the original question, The number of the current paragraph? How can I get it?, which does a nice job answering the question for iWork Pages. http://macscripter.n...
Sendal asked 16/5, 2013 at 20:19

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I'm making a simple menubar app to do some actions such as toggling dark mode in Mojave Writing an AppleScript for it is fine and when it works 100% when directly running the script. In order to i...
Neigh asked 2/10, 2018 at 2:57

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Update: cloned to here: https://apple.stackexchange.com/q/460841/209336 I'd like to have a bash script along the lines of this: # set terminal window profile to profile2 sleep 300 # set terminal w...
Bragg asked 9/6, 2023 at 16:32

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I'm curious if AppleScript can access each specific tab in a browser and execute some javascript in them. Anyone have ideas?
Electrotherapeutics asked 27/2, 2011 at 20:13

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