Removing certain safari history

Scripting Forums AppleScript | Mac OS X
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#1

Hi, hope someone out there can help me!

I am trying to remove only certain pages from the safari history! I have develop the next script:

set SafHist to alias (((path to home folder) as Unicode text) & “Library:Safari:History.plist”) as string
set SafHistText to ReadFile(SafHist)

on ReadFile(SafHist)
set X to “”
try
open for access alias SafHist
set X to read alias SafHist
close access alias SafHist
on error
close access alias SafHist
end try
if X ≠“” then
return X
else
return “”
end if
end ReadFile

The idea is to remove and write back! but there is to much info here! any idea? maybe is there a way of blocking history from window 1 or just for a moment?

thank you for your time!

Brian

#2

Hi,

History.plist is a property list file (a special kind of XML).
You’re strongly discouraged from removing single lines with simple read/write, because the hierarchical data structure could be destroyed.

You can edit plist files with the Property List Suite of System Events, SatImage’s XMLLib Scripting Addtion or the shell defaults command.

#3

Thank you!