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I wrote an AppleScript that automates selection of my wireless soundbar (AirPlay) as the sound output: tell application "System Events" tell process "Control Center" ...
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I have been using the AppleScript module in Python for some time now, but its latest version is refusing to work on any but the most trivial code. This is the Python script: #!/opt/local/bin/python3 ...
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I record music at home and regularly need to add tracks created with GarageBand to Music. This requires me to manually set the artist, album, genre, year, & artwork so I'm trying to write an ...
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When running the application through apple scripts with administrator rights, the menu item "Paste" is disabled on any input fields. For example do shell script "/Applications/Safari....
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I have upgraded to macOS 26 and got this strange error with AppleScript: current track doesn't work any more for streaming content, it works only for downloaded songs in user's library. tell ...
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Thanks to codez on GitHub who provided an Apple script to import a folder in Photos making proper Albums of all subfolders. Nevertheless it’s not maintained anymore and the script have few bugs I can’...
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I have a series of subfolders with a parent folder called "Inventory" within a internal hard drive. Each subfolder name consists of a number, a hyphen and some text, such as: "329 - ...
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I am trying to find what is the selected slide in the active Keynote presentation via scripting. Just using the slide number does not work, because it's -1 on ANY hidden slide. Things work ok in ...
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I'm making a swift app that shows the battery level of all connected bluetooth devices. I've got three devices connected: Mysz(name surname), Magic Keyboard (name), i12; where Mysz is just Magic Mouse....
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I have the following AppleScript that checks whether the file test.csv exists on the desktop. When I run the code, the following message appears: Script Error: Can’t get file ‘Macintosh HD:Users:adam:...
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I am looking for a script to open the (pdf) attachment of a (new) eMail using Mail 16.0. I tried this AppleScript and hoped it would open the attachment, but nothing happens: tell application "...
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I have a Numbers spreadsheet that I group according to the data of a couple of columns. For example I group according to the year included in a Date Purchased column well as an Account column. When ...
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I've written a number of AppleScript programs over the years to send keystrokes to various applications. It is usually as simple as: tell application "TextEdit" to activate delay 0.5 tell ...
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Here's what I'd like to do: Process a .gcode file to extract certain data and then create a .csv file containing all this data. For your information, this .gcode file is used on a 3D printer or laser/...
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This applescript allows me to extract the text I'm interested in from a .gcode file but actually creates a copy of the file before modifying the original file. I would like to save the file without ...
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I have limited experience with applescripting and the automator app, but have been able to cobble things together before that generally do what I need after a bunch of trial and error. I'm helping ...
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I'm trying to create an applescript that would allow me to clean up a .gcode file by removing all lines that don't begin with a semicolon ";" Here's a small example of the gcode file: ; ...
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I have an fairly simple apple script. I get some random number of windows so I loop through all the windows to find the window I am looking for, then do some stuff on the window. The first three ...
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I am trying to create AppleScript that will generate note in Notes with a checklist. I found a bunch of examples like this: tell application "Notes" activate set newNote to make new ...
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Trying to script new calendar events for use with Raycast (which is limited in that it can't add 0 duration or all day events, can't add alarms.) The following code results in error "Calendar ...
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I need to record the screen using the Screenshot application. This script launches the Screenshot app, but it does not start recording: tell application "Screenshot" activate end tell ...
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I need to open the Screenshots application using AppleScript. I have an Apple Mac mini M4. My code does nothing. No error. tell application "System Events" keystroke "5" using {...
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I'm trying to compile a script that add a new subfolder to an existing subfolder in Apple Mail. It's important the script can specify the account ("Events"), as I have many, and it should ...
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After a bit of frustrating effort I finally got a simple AppleScript to work with help here. Now that Sequoia has been updated this script fails again. Different reason but it's failing. This is ...
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I'll apologize upfront for posting another dang question/problem with an AppleScript shut down app. I must have read 1,000 threads relating to this topic. Sequoia 15.3.2 2025 Apple M4 pro I've pared ...
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I need to automate adding multiple images with title text to an Apple Pages document. My assumption is that I need to use AppleScript to do this. So far I've tried things like the following: tell ...
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I have a daily journal I create in Devonthink3, and as part of the note creation, I add that day's weather and the forecast. I ran this fine for about 90 days, but had to wipe the computer and reload ...
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we work with template files (generally psds), all saved together in folders, that have a generic name. We copy them and remove the ones not needed for the project, and mass rename the generic string, ...
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I have a working AppleScript for pinning a given app the dock: set theAppPath to "/Applications/Adobe Acrobat Reader.app" try set theShellScript to "defaults write com.apple.dock ...
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I am trying to determine which button was pushed in an OSA generated dialog using bash conditionals. However, no matter which button is pushed, the restart command always runs. Any thoughts? #!/bin/sh ...
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I have a mac music library consisting of local MP3s and iCloud tracks, which are online only or saved encrypted as an M4a file (if I chose to keep the locally). I want to delete any given iCloud track ...
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I am trying to fetch the birthday of a contact in the contacts list, on Mac. tell application "Contacts" set firstContact to first person set contactName to name of firstContact ...
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I'm a noob at Applescript, but managed to get the first half of this script to just display the menu. The image is a mouse hover to display the UI Browser result. The syntax for clicking on a menu ...
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I try to automate composing a mail with specified "to:" address, sender account and content including an attachment. I found the following AppleScript snippet I use from within a Bash script:...
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This is my literal first time coding anything in AppleScript / Hammerspoon. So I want to make an AutoClicker to stress test my website. The website is simple enough; it has a button for me click, ...
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I try to detect if a stream is active in Firefox by Applescript or bash. But I can't see any way to do that. I need to know from Firefox if any video or audio stream is present. I tried Applescript: ...
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I was looking at the Apple Foundation scripting API. I got fascinated by NSScriptSuiteRegistry and the other parts of of the dictionary sub-API. The description even says that the functions that read ...
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Here is my script set docsFolder to choose folder with prompt "Select the folder containing Pages documents:" set pdfFolder to choose folder with prompt "Select the folder to save PDFs:&...
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In numbers I have columns with data like this: I want to iterate through cells and for ex. if value of cell in row 6 is not equal to value of. cell in row 5 then add an empty row above the row 6 (...
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**I'm working on this script to send messages to all the phone numbers from a csv that's how I formatted the csv ** Phone Number,Message +16478xxxxx,Hi this is a test text me back if you have ...
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Following syntax generates email message in apple mail addressed "To" a recipient. Requesting guidance on how to populate the Cc field with 3 additional email addresses. Thanks. tell ...
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This Applescript capitalizes multiple listing title textfield within GarageSale. The program's built-in menu requires you to manually select one at a time and use the menu selection Edit > ...
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I use an application named “EventScripts” that will monitor my bluetooth signal and trigger an applescript when the bluetooth signal is lost. I’ve written a short script that locks my computer when ...
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I have tried replaceing all the fonts in keynote using Format/fonts/replace font. But automating it using python. My code is working until opening the replace font dialogue box but after that it can't ...
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I am trying to write a script I can attach to any folder that when I copy or save an item into it, it will make a copy into a separate folder. Both of these folders exist on a NAS. This script seems ...
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I've written an AppleScript containing 2 parts: part1 cycles through all Chrome windows and sets the given name - this works as expected part 2 wraps tries to do a similar thing but processes windows ...
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I have problems accessing the specific button element to perform a click. When I view the Hierarchy using Accessibility Inspector, I see the following Simulator (application) [SimulatorApp] iPhone ...
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I am converting html text to plain text and need to replace the HTML character codes with the actual characters the code represent. The following sample code does that for two character codes, but ...
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I'm trying to make an automation that adds people to a FaceTime call. I tried using Accessibility Inspector to find where the + button is in the UI. I'm don't know much AppleScript, so I just copied ...
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I'm trying to make some AppleScript code that creates a FaceTime link and copies it the the clipboard. I've gotten it to click the create link button, but I can't figure out how to click the "...
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