Copy an image from a web page into the clipboard from Safari

Scripting Forums AppleScript | Mac OS X
#1

I am needing to copy an image off a webpage into the clipboard from Safari. I can find the image number using java, but can’t figure out how to tell Safari to copy the image into the clipboard.

any suggestions?

Thanks

#2

This works fine here:

  1. Pick image URL
  2. Download image to disk (using “curl” or your favorite tool)
  3. Run this:
set the clipboard to (read alias "path:to:file.jpg" as TIFF picture)

This works with a test jpg and gif files I tried, and using Preview to create a new image from clipboard. Seems it doesn’t work, though, with other apps, which seems to be expecting PICT data… If you can stick with this method, use it. Otherwise, I think you should use a third-party app to open the image and copy the data to the clipboard. Or perhaps there is some kind of obj-c method in the Webkit framework, accessible from a Studio app.

#3

This is my final solution to the problem

set StartUpDiskPath to the path to the startup disk as text
set pictureFile to StartUpDiskPath & "picture.jpg"
tell application "Safari" to do JavaScript "document.images[14].src" in document 1
set PictAddress to result as text
set x to the offset of ("http:") in PictAddress
set CurlAddress to text (x) thru (count PictAddress) of PictAddress
do shell script "curl " & CurlAddress & " -o " & "picture.jpg"
(* If the picture type is GIF then convert it to JPG *)
if (the offset of (".gif") in CurlAddress) is not equal to 0 then
	tell application "Image Events"
		launch
		set img to open pictureFile
		save img as JPEG in file pictureFile with icon
		close pictureFile
	end tell
end if

Oh yeah, I found a way to do what I needed without using the clipboard.

Browser: Safari 416.12
Operating System: Mac OS X (10.4)