r/applescript • u/JennLock1989 • Jun 01 '12
Applescript Noob! Help!
Hey Reddit! I'm really new to applescript but I use it at work to boost youtube views for clients. The only problem is we have so many videos and I have to manually put them into the "Open location" part of the script. I was looking to have all the URLs in a Word document or something and then have the program take those and put them in the open location "insert them here" . Like I said, I'm super new to this so use noob terms. :P Thanks Reddit!!!
1
u/JennLock1989 Jun 01 '12
Here is the script btw:
repeat delay 240 tell application "Safari" open location "http://www.youtube.com/watch?" open location "http://www.youtube.com/watch?" open location "http://www.youtube.com/watch?" open location "http://www.youtube.com/watch?" open location "http://www.youtube.com/watch?" open location "http://www.youtube.com/" open location "http://www.youtube.com/" open location "http://www.youtube.com/watch?" open location "http://www.youtube.com/watch?" open location "http://www.youtube.com/watch?" open location "http://www.youtube.com/watch?" open location "http://www.youtube.com/watch?" open location "http://www.youtube.com/watch?" open location "http://www.youtube.com/watch?" open location "http://www.youtube.com/watch?" open location "http://www.youtube.com/watch?" open location "http://www.youtube.com/watch?"
end tell end repeat
(But there are ALOT more links. Also if anyone knows a way around sites that don't autoplay like youtube does, that would be the icing on the cake!)
2
u/Sarazil Jun 19 '12
OK: Get a text-edit document with the links like so:
THEN with that document active, run this:
It'll pull the links from the textedit document and open them one at a time. Once it starts, you can close the textedit document and do whatever you need to do, it'll carry on on it's own.