I don’t know javascript and I barely know applescript but I’m technical enough to figure out what to do with a little help.
My ultimate goal behind this is to be able to schedule my Audio Hijack Pro to launch a script capable of starting Safari at the precise webpage and simulate a click action on the “Play” button (on that webpage) so I can record a radio show unattended. The Global Research News Hour is a great show! I urge you guys to listen to it!
tell application “System Events” to tell process “Safari”
activate
click button “Play” of sheet 1 of window 1 – I know this does not work but this is what needs to be fixed.
end tell
Any help appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
PM
AppleScript: 2.0.1
Browser: Safari 525.27.1
Operating System: Mac OS X (10.5)
I am glad you posted the link: http://macscripter.net/viewtopic.php?id=15651
Kai is so good at giving all possible information regarding UI scripting. I had never attempted to do before what you are trying to do but i could still successfully do it within 5 minutes.
The following script clicks the “Click to give” button on www.thehungersite.com
tell application "Safari"
tell application "System Events"
tell process "Safari" to click button 1 of group 14 of UI element 1 of scroll area 1 of group 4 of window 1
end tell
end tell
Then i attempted to write a script for you. The problem in your case is that nothing shows up for the “play” button in prefab UI browser.
This script works fine In safari 3.2.1 (4525.27.1) osx 10.4
Don’t know about osx10.5
tell application "Safari"
activate
open location "http://republicbroadcasting.org/shoutcast/shoutcast.html"
end tell
tell application "System Events" to tell process "Safari"
set frontmost to true
keystroke tab
repeat 3 times
shift key down
keystroke tab
shift key up
end repeat
keystroke return
end tell
tell application "Safari"
activate
--Click form button named=j_id78:clickToGiveButton
do JavaScript "document.all(\"j_id78:clickToGiveButton\").click()" in document 1
end tell
To ptremblay: as you see, the play button is in flash and so the method you are trying will not work here.
To mira: i wonder, how you could click something inside a flash object in 10.4
To mark hunte: could you please tell me how to write the script that you wrote? I mean, it must be something about the button id, how do you find the button id?
I used the Inspector built into Safari. (can not remember if you need to enable the developer menu first)
But control click on the button, and select ‘Inspect Element’,
A inspector window should pop up with the HTML for the element highlighted. (you may need to scroll up or down, sometimes
it does not jump to the right place, but it will have it in highlight, so make sure you use the scroll bar and not not click on the window or you may un-highlight)
This is the example of what gets highlighted: Not the input id or the name one of them should work
<input id="j_id78:clickToGiveButton" name="j_id78:clickToGiveButton" type="image" src="http://cdn.thehungersite.com/charityusa_vitalstream_com/ctg/p3/images/interface/buttons/button-home-ths-right-2.gif?cb=1235080800000" onclick="mCC();;" alt="Click Here Daily To Click Here to Give - it's FREE. It's Free!" class="clickToGiveButton">
Thanks Mark. It will be very useful to me. Can you also tell me how to set delay in cases where java is used.
For example, look at delay set in this case, so as to make sure that the button is available to be clicked:
tell application "Safari" to open location "http://www.apple.com/"
tell application "System Events" to tell UI element "Job Opportunities" of group 10 of ¬
UI element 1 of scroll area 1 of group -1 of window 1 of application process "Safari"
repeat until exists
delay 0.2
end repeat
click
end tell
I would like to thank everyone on the thread! It helped me a lot. And frankly, it seems that everybody picked a little bit from everyone who contributed.
hello,
i have to complete forms manually and i would like to do this automatically.
but i don’t find how to click on the following radio button :
html-code :
i have some buttons like this in the web-page.
i think there should be something like this :
tell application “Safari”
activate
end tell
tell application “System Events”
tell process “Safari”
click radio button (something in here, but what ?)
end tell
end tell
“Something in there” could be a do javascript"getElmentById(ID)", followed by yourElm.SetFocus() or something clicked to true, or a call to system events after having found the value and id of the radiobutton by UI Element Inspector.
You may maybe go away from Safari and UI scripting all together, and maybe have curl click the page for you.
It is kind of hard to do it any other way, as long as the page is a flash player page.
It would be interesting to have a copy of your script it can be intersting to look at.
I hit cmd-shift-4 leveraging on the screen capture to show me screen coordinates, for the mouse pointer, when I am done, I hit ESC to avoid taking the picture.
tell application “Safari”
activate
set bounds of window 1 to {1, 1, 1200, 1000}
end tell
do shell script “users/myusername/desktop/cliclick/cliclick c:308,521”
Sometimes the very last resort, when everything else is tested. Regulus6633/HamSoftEngineering has also made a utility like clickclick, and I also think that AsObjC runner is capable of the same.
