AppleScript can be used to leverage the best features of each application on Mac OS X.
- Adding parenthetical asides to photograph titles on macOS
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Use Applescript to append a parenthetical to the titles of all selected photographs in Photos on macOS. - Apple Mail on the Desktop with GeekTool
- Here’s a simple AppleScript to use with GeekTool to put your inbox on the Desktop.
- AppleScript as shell scripting language
- AppleScript can be run from the shell pretty much like any other shell scripting language—it doesn’t even always need a logged-in user.
- AppleScript Basics
- Basic AppleScript to automate the use of your Macintosh.
- AppleScript Preview in Snow Leopard and Lion
- Preview supports AppleScript, but the support is turned off by default. You can enable it with three terminal commands.
- AppleScript, Mail, and deleted messages
- OS X Mail appears to keep trashed messages in their previous folder for a while, resulting in “ghost messages” when you try to get messages from a mailbox using AppleScript.
- AppleScript, variables, and dropped filenames in Automator
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Automator is a simple workflow system for Mac OS X. By its nature it is very procedural: one task follows another; workflows don’t loop and they don’t store variables for later. However, this is possible in Automator and while it adds complexities it can also solve problems such as wanting to save dropped filenames for later use. - AppleScript: The Definitive Guide
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AppleScript is an extremely useful tool for automating the repetitive things you do in Mac OS X applications, as well as for tying a long workflow together into a double-clickable icon. This Definitive Guide is a great reference for the AppleScript scripting language. - appscript AppleScript translator
- Those of us who like Applescript but want a solid command-line scripting environment no longer have to muddle through when using appscript. We can write in AppleScript and then translate to appscript.
- Converting FileMaker to Django
- Appscript and the Django API make it easy to transfer data from Mac OS X scriptable applications into a Django-powered database.
- Copying album art with GraphicConverter
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One of the many useful features of GraphicConverter is its extensive AppleScript dictionary. I use it, along with Unskew, to use photos of album covers as album art in iTunes. - Create a web browser in AppleScript Studio
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AppleScript Studio is a powerful means of putting a graphic user interface onto AppleScript applications. Interface Builder lets us use any of the simple and complex controls that any other application can use. - FB Osax
- Some text and date manipulation scripting additions for Applescript on PPC and 68k.
- Find all parent mailboxes in macOS Mail
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The macOS Mail app seems to want to hide the existence of mailboxes and any sense of hierarchical storage. These two AppleScripts will help you find the full path to a selected message and open the message’s mailbox. - Getting the selected playlist in iTunes
- It took a while to figure out how to get iTunes’s selected playlist as opposed to the current playlist in AppleScript.
- Importing vinyl into iTunes
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This script takes songs split by marker from SoundStudio and converts them directly into iTunes, setting track number, track total, and album name along with the song title. - Improving the iTunes sleep timer
- If you want to stop the iTunes sleep timer, the display settings are stuck on the fast-dim setting. Further, the current design doesn’t really allow you to change your mind at all!
- iTunes Alarm
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Set up iTunes to start playing at a specified time, but to not play if you are on vacation and want to sleep in. - JXA and AppleScript compared via HyperCard
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How does JXA compare to the AppleScript solution for screenshotting every card in HyperCardPreview? - Lists
- The simplest way of passing data in Apple Events is the AEList: it’s a list of values.
- Negative Space Collection
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The Negative Space Collection was a collection of Perl scripts and Applescripts to make maintaining a web site a little easier on a Macintosh. - Play this song backwards in iTunes
- Using AppleScript and Quicktime, you can play any song backwards. Find out what Fred Schneider was saying on “Detour Thru Your Mind”.
- POV-Ray Animation
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Normally, you’ll probably want to create your animations frame by frame. But for simple animations, you can have POV-Ray create the movie directly. - Programming Cron Scripts
- You will probably also find Cron useful for controlling some of these scripts. You might even want to program your own Cron-able Applescripts.
- Records
- An AERecord is kind of like a database row: it contains fields and values; the field names end up getting an arbitrary code when you compile your script.
- Run a script on inserting an audio CD
- You can run a script every time you insert an audio CD to ensure that iTunes is ready for import.
- Save clipboard text to the current folder
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Use the Finder toolbar to save text on the current clipboard directly to a file in the folder that Finder window is displaying. - A simple iTunes sleep timer
- If you enjoy listening to music for a while before you go to sleep, but don’t want to have iTunes on all night, you can use AppleScript to make iTunes and your Mac do what you want it to do.
- Stack windows on top of each other
- If you want to stack multiple windows directly on top of each other, it’s easy to do in any well-behaved application, such as Nisus Writer Pro, Safari, Mail, and even older applications like AppleWorks 6 and Microsoft Word X.
- Styled Text
- Some text can be styled. I have no idea how to extract the style information, but the text is easy, because it is kept separate from the style info.
- Text to image filter for Smashwords conversions
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Smashwords has very strange requirements for ebooks. This script is what I use to convert books to .doc format for Smashwords, including converting tables to images. - Using Apple Events in Osaxen
- How to decode Apple Events in Applescript scripting additions.
- Using AppleScript with GraphicConverter
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Automatically trim an image to a set size, set the appropriate transparent color, and then save and upload a png and gif version of the image. - Using MailShare: How to Queue Files up for AIMS
- Using MailShare, Apple Internet Mail Server, or possibly Eudora Internet Mail Server, to queue up files to go out by Applescript.
- Using version control with AppleScripts
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AppleScripts aren’t stored as text, which makes it impossible to track changes in AppleScript files using version control software such as Mercurial or Git.
