Applescript/Javascript to click submenu item of Jupiter Notebook in Safari

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When I run a.ipynb jupyter notebook file in Safari, it opens at local host http://localhost:8888/notebooks/a.ipynb#.

NOTE: The script should work for any *.ipynb file, a.ipynb is just an example. Also, the website is at the frontmost app while running the code.

How can I write an Applescript (may be using JavaScript) so that I can click the menu Run All Below button in that tab of safari submenu ?

Here is my attemt:

tell application "Safari"

activate

end tell


tell application "System Events"

tell process "Safari"

click menu item "Run All Below" of menu "Cell" of menu bar 1

end tell

end tell

But, this did not work. I am very new to applescript and generally only use Python.

How can I click the required menu "Run All Below" ?

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An easy way to do this is to use the Automator "Watch Me Do" feature, then convert it to Applescript.

Open the Automator app and create a new document.
Select "Workflow" as the document type.
Now make sure you have Safari open to the page you want it to.
Go back to Automator and click on "Record." There should be a small black window that pops up showing Automator is recording.
Go to Safari and do whatever action(s) you want to automate.
Stop the recording.
Go back to Automator and there should be a new action that looks somewhat like this:
You may need to adjust the playback speed using the slider to make it work properly
Now you can just leave it like this and convert it to an application so you can double-click it to run, or:
See here to convert it to AppleScript so you can use it in Script Editor

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You can also click elements with JavaScript:

tell application "Google Chrome" to tell active tab of window 1
    execute javascript "document.getElementById('chrome-web-store-title').click()"
    --execute javascript "document.querySelectorAll('.tile-grid .most-visited')[3].click()"
end tell

Focusing an existing tab by URL:

tell application "Google Chrome"
    repeat with w in windows
        set i to 1
        repeat with t in tabs of w
            if URL of t starts with "https://mail.google" then
                set active tab index of w to i
                set index of w to 1
                return
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            set i to i + 1
        end repeat
    end repeat
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Using Javascript | Applescript to click button in Safari

For a minute there I thought you were asking the same question again as last time.

But realise now you want to know how to use Inspect Element to construct your own code.

In the example you give: document.forms[WHATGOESHERE?].click()

The WHATGOESHERE would be the form name.

i.e document.forms['theFormName'].click()

Your website in their wisdom has named the form 'form'

<form method="post" action="/cgi-bin/RNAfold.cgi" enctype="multipart/form-data" name="form"> <input type="hidden" name="PAGE" value="2">

i.e document.forms['form'].click()

But this would not click the input button

You can use the submit() function dot syntax'd on the end :

document.forms['form'].submit()

Safari Applescript : do JavaScript "document.forms['form'].submit()"

Also

In the code I provided you in your last question. I used:

tell document 1

        do JavaScript "document.getElementsByClassName('proceed')[0].click()"

    end tell

This uses the class Name proceed of the forms input element seen here: class="proceed"

<input value="" name="proceed" type="submit" class="proceed" onmouseover="this.style.cursor="pointer"" style="cursor: pointer;">

The getElementsByClassName('proceed')[0] does exactly what it says.

It gets the Elements By ClassName 'proceed'.

The [0] means it will give you the first element in it's results from the Array that would be returned. The array is counted from 0-9. So the first item would be item 0.

A good place to get working examples and information about Javascript is at www.w3schools.com On the front page the have links to their HTML and Javascript examples and Tutorials. The elements of the HTML Dom and Javascript functions are listed for easy access.

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