Re: Opening Safari tabs one-at-a-time?
Re: Opening Safari tabs one-at-a-time?
- Subject: Re: Opening Safari tabs one-at-a-time?
- From: Richard Wolf <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:47:36 -0500
On Aug 21, 2008, at 10:32 AM, Sam Krishna wrote:
Are there any automator actions out there that let me load Safari
tabs one at a time? For example, I want to send a batch of URLs to
this action, and have the action open each URL in Safari one-at-a-
time, waiting until the current tab has finished loading before
starting the next tab.
Is there an action out there that lets me do this? Or do I need to
roll my own?
Sam,
It is easy, in Cocoa, to open a URL in a user's default browser
(Safari, Firefox, whatever). If it didn't exist, I could probably
Xcode that action in a couple of hours, maybe less. :) If you have
Xcode powers, you probably could as well.
In Cocoa, you'd use this class:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/ApplicationKit/Classes/NSWorkspace_Class/Reference/Reference.html
specifically, this method:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/ApplicationKit/Classes/NSWorkspace_Class/Reference/Reference.html#/
/apple_ref/occ/instm/NSWorkspace/openURL:
The openURL methods returns a BOOL stating whether the URL was opened
successfully. Since the call is synchronous, you could just loop
around it, opening a new URL every time. Whether this would product
the desired effect in Safari is a different matter. "What" Safari
views as success in opening a URL ... this I don't know. I also don't
know "when" it reports success or failure.
Safari has an option, in its preferences, to either open links sent
from other apps in a new window, or a tab in an existing window. So a
user could just toggle that for the behavior he/she wanted from an
Automator workflow.
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