Re: Tell Safari to Download pdf?
Re: Tell Safari to Download pdf?
- Subject: Re: Tell Safari to Download pdf?
- From: "Ken G. Brown" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:37:12 -0600
At 6:01 PM -0700 6/25/08, email@hidden apparently wrote:
>Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:53:38 +1000
>From: Alan Fairlie <email@hidden>
>Subject: Re: Tell Safari to Download pdf?
><>
>Here's an Apple example script using 'URL Access Scripting' for
>downloading a file to a specific location.
>
>set weather_map to "acttemp_720x486.jpg" -- temperatures
>set weather_map to "curwx_720x486.jpg" -- surface isobars
>
>set the target_URL to "http://maps.weather.com/images/maps/current/"; &
>weather_map
>set the destination_file to ((path to desktop as string) &
>"weathermap.jpg")
>
>tell application "URL Access Scripting"
> download target_URL to file destination_file re
Thanks a bunch for all the tips everyone, I've managed to get it working.
The site I am working with is http://www.freepatentsonline.com and they restrict downloads to those that have an account and are signed on.
I have a list of patents in a text file that I want to download.
I could not get curl to work for that reason but will file away that for future reference. Curl allows for user and password options but it did not work for some reason. From looking at the manual, curl is amazing tho. Files download but are incomplete.
I did not know about "URL Access Scripting" so that too might come in handy, but it did not work either, probably uses curl.
The trick I needed was of course to set Safari to download instead of display pdf's, which you need to set in Adobe Reader, not sure how to do it by scripting Safari.
Then set Safari download folder to what you want, sign on to freepatentsonline and this script or some modification thereof should work:
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-- loads a list of patent numbers from a file, then downloads their pdf's from freepatentsonline
-- must be signed in to the freepatents online site in Safari
-- Set Safari to download pdf's instead of displaying them, set download folder to an appropriate folder
tell application "BBEdit"
activate
open {file "yourpath:PatentList.text"} with LF translation
set myText to text of document 1 as text
end tell
set textList to every paragraph of myText
set urlBasePAth to "http://www.freepatentsonline.com/";
set mycount to count of textList
repeat with ii from 1 to mycount
set thisPatentNum to the last word of item ii of textList
set thisUrl to urlBasePAth & (thisPatentNum) & ".pdf"
tell application "Safari"
activate
make new document with properties {URL:thisUrl}
-- wait until document is finished loading, probably do not need this section in this application but might be handy for other types of pages
set myjavascript to "document.location='" & thisUrl & "'"
repeat until ((do JavaScript "document.readyState" in front document) is "complete")
delay 0.2
end repeat
delay 5 -- to give time for the downloads to start and even perhaps complete so don't get too many active at one time
-- close the windows so we don't get too many hanging around
set mycount to count of windows
repeat with jj from 1 to mycount
set this_win to (window (mycount - jj + 1))
close this_win
end repeat
end tell
end repeat
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Thx,
Ken G. Brown
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