automator
I keep doing the same thing over and over:
php myscript.php –url "URL"
I'm pretty sure Automator can help here, but I'm completely stuck to understand how. My idea was to create a service: right click on the url > service > myscript.
How can I do that, or is there another solution out there?
Edit:
Here is what I tried, create a service with an URL as input.
Unfortunately, the service does not even show up when I right click.
You could install tag with for example brew install tag and then use a script like this:
set tags to text returned of (display dialog "" default answer "")
tell application "Safari" to tell document 1 to set {u, t} to {URL, name}
tell application "Finder"
make new internet location file at POSIX file "/Users/username/Bookmarks" to u with properties {name:t}
set p to POSIX path of (result as alias)
end tell
do shell script "/usr/local/bin/tag -s " & quoted form of tags & " " & quoted form of p
For Chrome, use tell application "Google Chrome" to tell tab 1 of window 1 to set {u, t} to {URL, title}. Separate the tags with commas in the dialog.
This is not the optimal solution, but it's working for now. Here is the Automator window:
The first shell script compiles the .tex file using the sequence pdflatex - biber - pdflatex and contains the following code:
for f in "$@"
do
file_ext=${f##*.}
if [ "$file_ext" = "tex" ]
then
foldername=$(dirname "$f")
export foldername
filename=$(basename "$f")
filesimple=${filename%.tex*}
cd $foldername
/usr/local/texlive/2013/bin/x86_64-darwin/pdflatex "$filename"
/usr/local/texlive/2013/bin/x86_64-darwin/biber "$filesimple"
/usr/local/texlive/2013/bin/x86_64-darwin/pdflatex "$filename"
else
echo $f n\'est pas un fichier TeX
fi
done
The second shell script deletes all temp files and opens the .pdf file. It contains the following code:
for f in "$@"
do
file_ext=${f##*.}
if [ "$file_ext" = "tex" ]
then
foldername=$(dirname "$f")
filename=$(basename "$f")
filesimple=${filename%.tex*}
cd $foldername
rm $filesimple.aux
rm $filesimple.bbl
rm $filesimple.bcf
rm $filesimple.blg
rm $filesimple.log
rm $filesimple.run.xml
open $filesimple.pdf
else
echo $f n\'est pas un fichier TeX
fi
done
I'm still waiting for a better solution using the latexmk command!
Best Answer
Seems like "Service receives selected URLs" only works with Internet actions. Fortunately you can use the "Get Specified URLs" Internet action to relay the service input to your "Run Shell Script" action.
For example, I used the following automator service to open a selected link in a non-default browser. In my case Firefox but you can use Chrome or another browser.
Remove any address from the "Get Specified URLs" action so that the list is blank as in the screenshot above. Don't forget to "Pass input: as arguments" In the "Run Shell Script" action if you're using the "$@" notation.