I’m wondering if it’s possible for Applescript to open this link:
http://democracynow.org/streampage.pl
and then click the daily changing link
“Watch entire show - broadband or dialup”
Thanks
I’m wondering if it’s possible for Applescript to open this link:
http://democracynow.org/streampage.pl
and then click the daily changing link
“Watch entire show - broadband or dialup”
Thanks
Hi ronan,
try this
set site_url to "http://democracynow.org/streampage.pl"
set link_text to "Watch entire show - broadband or dialup"
tell application "Safari"
activate
open location site_url
if my page_loaded(20) is false then return
set theLink to my find_link(link_text)
if theLink is false then -- link text not found
display dialog "Link \"" & link_text & "\" not found."
else
open location theLink
end if
end tell
--
on find_link(link)
tell application "Safari" to set num_links to (do JavaScript "document.links.length" in document 1)
-- find the link
set c to num_links - 1
set this_link to ""
set f to false
repeat with i from 0 to c
tell application "Safari"
set this_link to do JavaScript "document.links[" & i & "].text" in document 1
if this_link is link then
return (do JavaScript "document.links[" & i & "].href" in document 1)
exit repeat
end if
end tell
end repeat
return f
end find_link
on page_loaded(timeout_value)
delay 2
repeat with i from 1 to the timeout_value
tell application "Safari"
if (do JavaScript "document.readyState" in document 1) is "complete" then
return true
else if i is the timeout_value then
return false
else
delay 1
end if
end tell
end repeat
return false
end page_loaded
PS: does the mail script work?
You can also use curl to download the HTML of the page, find the link address by searching on the link text and then open it. I don’t have Real Player installed, so can’t test my approach (not shown) or Stephan’s, but Stephan’s certainly goes to the right page for me, downloads the video and is much more efficient in getting there.
Indeed Adam, this can be even done with an one-liner
open location (do shell script "curl http://democracynow.org/streampage.pl | grep video | cut -f 4 -d '\"'")
Very efficient, Stefan.
What app is supposed to open those files? Quicktime won’t, and it defaults to Smile, of all things.
Real Player