Apple Script: Opening urls from Plain Text and Running Separate Actions Depending on Formatting

Unfortunately this isn't what I'm after as it also says videos cannot be viewed offline via pocket.

I have both a way to save the videos and save the web page. What I need is a way for the applescript to decide which application/workflow to run for each url based on its formatting or some other parameter.

Okay so I have access to my files now:

Im trying to copy files from my online course to my hard rive for offline viewing.

As you can see they're both video files and text files. To save the video files I have one automator application which goes inside another workflow and to save the web archive I have another. The Workflow is as follows:

Lines 12-14 currently tell the script to run that application.

What I'm ultimately after is being able to make the application used variable dependant on the textedit file.

For example I could set it up as below and need the condition:

if paragraph starts with (video) run "X" application

if paragraph starts with (web) run "Y" application

Hope this is clearer!

Sorry for sounding like a novicebeing a complete novice but could you show me where to insert that into the main code and where I would add the tell expressions to run the applications for: Video=Application1 Web=Application2. I feel like I need to read up on some beginner stuff but I'd like to get this out the way first and you're being a great help.

And how do I post script! I've really rushed into all of this 😟

on run {input, parameters} read (item 1 of input) set ps to paragraphs of the result set tot to count ps tell application "Safari" reopen activate end tell repeat with i from 1 to tot set p to item i of ps if p is not "" then try tell application "Safari" tell front window set r to make new tab with properties {URL:p} set current tab to r delay 1 if i = tot then exit repeat repeat delay 1 get URL of r end repeat end tell end tell end try end if end repeat end run

Thank you. I'll give this a try when I'm home. The video and web page are downloaded via an application made in automator

(from memory) – Video

1. Opens url in Safari
2. Goes through the develop menu and opens in chrome
3. Activates a keyboard shortcut to click the screen in two places to run the extension.
4. Closes the chrome tab
5. Closes the safari tab

(from memory) – Webpage

1. Opens url in safari
2. File > Save as
3. Closes safari tab

This then allowed the applescript to continue because the safari tab had been closed.

This worked perfectly thank you. Because both actions start in safari and run an application from there I just modified the script to suit my pre-existing workflow.

Thank you so much.

on run {input, parameters}
      log "  --- Starting on " & ((current date) as string) & " --- "
      read (item 1 of input)
      --   set result to "(web)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ur-D37-juo" & return & "(video)http://download.wavetlan.com/SVV/Media/HTTP/BlackBerry.mov" & return  
      set ps to paragraphs of the result
      set tot to count ps
      tell application "Safari"
            reopen
            activate
      end tell
      
      repeat with i from 1 to tot
            set p to item i of ps
            log "p =" & p
            if p is not "" then
                  log "p = 1 thru 10  " & ((characters 1 thru 10 of p) as string)
                  
                  set splitData to textToList(p, ")")
                  set extractedURL to item 2 of splitData
                  log "extractedURL = " & extractedURL
                  if ((characters 1 thru 7 of p) as string) is equal to "(web)ht" then
                        log "web found"
                        -- Ok, I assume you want to invoke safari when have a web page.  
                        try
                              tell application “XYZ"
                                    activate
                              end tell
                              tell application "Safari"
                                    tell front window
                                          set r to make new tab with properties {URL:extractedURL}
                                          set current tab to r
                                          delay 1
                                          -- are we done yet?   
                                          -- what is different from the last item and the   
                                          -- previous item?  
                                          -- --- if i = tot then exit repeat  
                                          -- Run the safari window until the user closes the window   
                                          repeat
                                                delay 1
                                                get URL of r
                                          end repeat
                                    end tell
                                    
                              end tell -- tell safari  
                        end try
                        
                  else if ((characters 1 thru 7 of p) as string) is equal to "(video)" then
                        log "video found"
                        -- you need to find some way to download the video.    
                        -- For my testing, I picked a .mov file.  
                        
                        try
                              tell application “ABC"
                                    activate
                              end tell
                              tell application "Safari"
                                    tell front window
                                          set r to make new tab with properties {URL:extractedURL}
                                          set current tab to r
                                          delay 1
                                          -- are we done yet?   
                                          -- what is different from the last item and the   
                                          -- previous item?  
                                          -- --- if i = tot then exit repeat  
                                          -- Run the safari window until the user closes the window   
                                          repeat
                                                delay 1
                                                get URL of r
                                          end repeat
                                    end tell
                                    
                              end tell -- tell safari  
                        end try
                        
                  else
                        log "other"
                  end if
                  
                  
            end if -- not ""  
      end repeat
end run


-- textToList was found here:  
-- http://macscripter.net/viewtopic.php?id=15423  


on textToList(thisText, delim)
      set resultList to {}
      set {tid, my text item delimiters} to {my text item delimiters, delim}
      try
            set resultList to every text item of thisText
            set my text item delimiters to tid
      on error
            set my text item delimiters to tid
      end try
      return resultList
end textToList