Re: How to script Safari to download a file
Re: How to script Safari to download a file
- Subject: Re: How to script Safari to download a file
- From: jj <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 23:24:32 +0200
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I download an audio file from a webpage each day and would like to automate
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the process.
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I can use the following script to get the audio file to play on a web page
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but I want to download the file instead of playing it.
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tell application "Safari"
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activate
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if not (exists document 1) then
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make new document at the beginning of documents
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end if
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set the URL of the front document to
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"http://www.archive.org/download/dn2004-0716/dn2004-0716-1_64kb.mp3";
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end tell
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Basically, I want to save the file as if I control clicked on the url and
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selected the 'Download linked file as ...' command
You can use "curl" in a "do shell script":
do shell script "cd ~/Desktop; curl -O
http://server.com/file.mp3";
(just use your download location instead of "~/Desktop")
jj
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