A loop to open downloaded file in Applescript?
Hi, so new to Applescript and hoping someone could help me. I use a script to download an image file with curl on my desktop (with the file named after the title of my Active Google Chrome tab). This works very well and as planned.
The problem is the line afterwards where I want to open this file in another application. It is not working and I don't know why. I guess it's probably trying to open the path of the URL instead of the local file? I try to save the results of this (DownloadedImage.jpg) as a variable, but do not know if I'm doing things. It's the part of the script:
game of downloadedFile to (the shell script "curl-o" & quoted form of (tabTitle, savePath & ".jpg" as text) & space & quoted form of theURL)
say application 'Preview' to Open ' "& downloadedFile & «»
Any help would be appreciated.
Your problem is quite simple.
In your script:
game of downloadedFile to (the shell script "curl-o" & quoted form of (tabTitle, savePath & ".jpg" as text) & space & quoted form oftheURL)
the variable downloadedFile will be the final text of the bomb the command script. It has nothing to do with the file downloaded. Instead, it is the text that you would have seen if you perform the curl even command in a Terminal window. There is no way to preview coerce to a file reference to open.
The good thing, however, is that you know where is the file, because you will need to pass these data in curl in the first place. For ease of maintenance, I simply create a new variable which follows the path of the file and use it in both States.
value filePath to quoted form of (tabTitle, savePath & ".jpg" as text)
the value downloadedFile to (the shell script "curl-o" & filePath & space form City of theURL)
say application "Overview" for Open the file filePath
So now, you open the filePath, not the output of the shell command.
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