Re: Tell Safari to Download pdf?
Re: Tell Safari to Download pdf?
- Subject: Re: Tell Safari to Download pdf?
- From: Ian Goos <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:38:26 -0400
This is mostly non AS:
I've used wget in the terminal to do this type of thing. It supports
user names, passwords, cookies, base URLs, and text documents with
lists of URLs/File Names. It also supports a number of other cool
features like downloading entire web pages and support links (like
PDFs) to create offline versions. I've used Fink to install wget and
it is more simplified for my poor brain than curl is.
Capture the exit state of wget and act accordingly with AS, or set up
folder actions as new files arrive.
wget does respect robot exclusions by default and I suspect curl does
too. That could be why the activity is flakey.
Good luck!
On Jun 26, 2008, at 11:37 AM, Ken G. Brown wrote:
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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