Newbie big time here... How do I copy/paste?

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#1

Ok… I’m taking the easy way out by posting a message here.

I am trying to develop an AppleScript for the first time with Safari browser.

I need a script that will automatically get HTML source of the current page and copy and paste that source into either TextEdit or BBEdit.

I can’t seem to find the proper term to copy and paste. Here’s what I wrote so far - pathetic, I know. Recording in AppleScript Editor doesn’t work with Safari.

tell application “Safari”
activate
set page_source to the source of document
end tell

tell application “TextEdit”
activate
try
set document to page_source
end try
end tell

Many thanks!

Marvin

#2

This might work:

tell application "Safari"
	activate -- not needed unless you want to watch
	set page_source to the source of front document
end tell

tell application "TextEdit"
	activate -- not needed unless you want to watch
	set newDoc to make new document at end
	tell newDoc
		set paragraph 1 to page_source
	end tell
end tell
#3

It works!

But i can’t get it to work with BBEdit 7.0.1. Any reason why?

Marvin

#4

Yeah, the terminology is different. This works with BBEdit 6.5.x. so I assume it will work with v7.x.

tell application "Safari"
	activate
	set page_source to the source of front document
end tell

tell application "BBEdit 7.0.1"
	activate
	make new text window with properties {contents:page_source}
end tell