Safari automation script

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#1

Hi there,
I’m pretty new to the whole scripting business and I’ve never learned any programming before so I’m having some problems writing a script I really need. This script needs to open up a Safari web page and look for a specific word in it. If it’s not there, it reloads the page. If it’s there, the script says “word found” and stops. Here’s what I have so far:

tell application "System Events"
	tell application "Safari" to activate
	open location "URL"
	delay 5
	tell process "Safari" to keystroke "f" using command down
	keystroke "word to be found"
	(*try
		tell process "Safari" to keystroke return
	if not found 
		tell process "Safari" to keystroke "r" using command down
		delay 5
	end if*)
	say "word found" using "Fred"
end tell

Obviously the “if not found” isn’t right but I have no clue how to work from there, and I’m not even sure it’s the right way to look at my problem. Can you guys please help me? It would be very appreciated!

AppleScript: 2.2
Browser: Safari 525.13
Operating System: Mac OS X (10.5)

#2

Hi,

two suggestions:
Both of the following examples use the home page of macscripter and search for the word “Freelancer”.
The scripts search every 10 seconds for the word and exit the repeat loop if the word has been found.

If the site contains no php or other script contents and is not password protected, you don’t need any browser.
curl can do the job


property theURL : "http://macscripter.net"
property searchTerm : "MacFreelancer"
property delayValue : 10

repeat
	try
		do shell script "/usr/bin/curl -sL --connect-timeout 25 -m 120 " & theURL & " | /usr/bin/grep " & searchTerm
		exit repeat
	end try
	delay delayValue
end repeat

if the curl version doesn’t work, try


property theURL : "http://macscripter.net"
property searchTerm : "MacFreelancer"
property delayValue : 10

tell application "Safari"
	repeat
		open location theURL
		delay 2
		set flag to false
		repeat 20 times
			if (do JavaScript "document.readyState" in document 1) is "complete" then
				set flag to true
				exit repeat
			end if
			delay 1
		end repeat
		if flag and text of document 1 contains searchTerm then exit repeat
		delay delayValue
		set URL of document 1 to theURL
	end repeat
end tell

Note: The scripts have only a minor error handling, so under certain circumstances you run into a infinite loop

#3

Thank you very much. The first one didn’t work but the second one is doing exactly what I want!