I want to develop an Applescript to extract youtube live stream video ID using the Channel ID. Currently, I’m doing it manually as Youtube changes live stream video ID time to time. For an example, I’m practising following; Open https://www.youtube.com/embed/live_stream?channel=UCu7cGbQEMgGk8TD0ZYucM5g Right-click on the player and select “Copy video URL” This URL is used to an … Read more
I use Dragon dictate to automate many things. I would like to open a particular folder in finder. for example when I say “open downloads” it executes the following shell script: open /Volumes/3TB\ Storage/Downloads/ however this always opens the folder in a new window. I would like the script to open the folder in a … Read more
We have over 15000 images that need renaming. Is there a simple way to find text in a file name (from a csv file) and replace text in a file name (again from a csv file)?? Eg. File Name – AA021 asphalt/fuchsia FRONT.jpg We have a CSV of full names “asphalt” and a CSV of … Read more
I want this shortcut to run an apple script to open a new iTerm window. I can’t when I use the shortcut in Keyboard > Shortcuts > Services it does not register, and I think it’s because it’s already taken by the slideshow. I can’t find the slideshow hotkey in Keyboard > Shortcuts, so maybe … Read more
Goal I want to have a command (running a script/hotkey/alfred workflow) to start my work day with a running workspace. I’m having trouble on the running the stack part. the goal is having 3 panes with these commands running in order docker-compose up yarn start rails s I want to have them in panes side-by-side … Read more
My applescript’s app name is “myApp”, I’m just wondering why it’s not killing my app after the Launch of Tableau. “on run” is working as expected, and killing the host app after launching Tableau, but “on open” is not behaving as expected, when I’m passing clicked filename as parameter: on open fileRef do shell script … Read more
I am using voice control in Catalina OS beta 5 to map various keyboard shortcuts to custom commands. Most key shortcuts like “command-f” work just fine, but any key shortcut that uses either the ‘tab’, ‘function’ or ‘escape’ key cannot be mapped. I would like to make a command to use ‘function-right arrow’/left arrow, but … Read more
i have indesign file with image inside, how I can duplicate the original image in the desktop and relink to the copy in document? I try this code in script (but he don’t duplicate the file): if(app.documents.length != 0){ if((app.documents.item(0).allGraphics.length != 0)&&(app.selection.length != 0)){ //A production version of this script would probably include //a more … Read more
Ok so if I want to open a random file from a folder on my Mac, I can use the following script succesfully: tell application “Finder” open some file of (folder (“Users:chris:Desktop:photoAlbum”) of startup disk) end tell However, I’m not sure what syntax to use when I want to open a random file from a … Read more
I’m looking for a script to toggle iCloud preferences in system preferences. I need to automatically uncheck all the voices (Photos, Mail, Contacts, etc) leaving only iCloud Drive and Find My Mac. In iCloud Drive settings I also need to uncheck everything, leaving only Desktop & Documents Folders Is there a way to do so … Read more
