This has to be a pretty obvious fix. Thanks for the ideas. I’m trying to pass this_text to a URL to open in a new tab, but I’m doing something wrong, as the new tab is empty.
What I do is this: I copy mydomain.com to the clipboard, run the script, and then the URL whois.com/whois/mydomain.com opens in the front tab:
tell application "System Events"
set this_text to (get the clipboard) as string
open location "http://www.whois.com/whois/" & this_text
end tell
But this one just opens a new and empty tab:
set this_text to (get the clipboard) as string
set theURL to "http://www.whois.com/whois/" & this_text
tell application "Safari"
activate
try
tell window 1 to set current tab to make new tab with properties {URL:theURL}
on error
open location theURL
end try
end tell
Hi,
try this, it considers also the cases no document and blank document without tabs
set this_text to the clipboard
set theURL to "http://www.whois.com/whois/" & this_text
tell application "Safari"
activate
if (count documents) is 0 then make new document
tell window 1
set tabTest to URL of tab 1
try
tabTest -- throws an error if the window has no tabs
set current tab to (make new tab with properties {URL:theURL})
on error
set URL of tab 1 to theURL
end try
end tell
end tell
Thanks, but that still gives me an empty tab; I’m trying to get the tab to open http://www.whois.com/whois/mydomain.com
Hey There,
Your script as is works perfectly well for me with a basic domain like ‘macscripter.net’. Changing it just a bit for clarity also works:
tell window 1 to set current tab to (make new tab with properties {URL:theURL})
Perhaps you should provide an example of your look-up text that doesn’t work.
I would grab that text from the Clipboard and make sure there’s nothing weird in it:
set _clip to "'" & (get the clipboard) & "'"
set the clipboard to _clip