You won't be able to do it in AppleScript : Safari only does something on open windows.
You should definitely look at Command line scripts like curl.
The AppleScript to call a shell command takes the form:
set variableName to do shell script "command"
So using your AlertURLString you'd want something like:
set curlOutput to do shell script "curl '" & AlertURLString & "'"
See the curl man page for more details on how to use curl to do things like POST and PUT calls or attach payloads to the calls and what not. It is incredibly powerful.
Here is an AppleScript that should help you. Open AppleScript Editor and save this as a script. I have modified the source that I found here to support taking arguments on the command line.
Use it like this:
osascript new_window.scpt http://www.google.com http://www.stackoverflow.com
Of course, replace the URLs above with your own URLs.
new_window.scpt
on run argv
tell application "Safari"
if (count argv) = 0 then
-- If you dont want to open a new window for an empty list, replace the
-- following line with just "return"
set {first_url, rest_urls} to {"", {}}
else
-- `item 1 of ...` gets the first item of a list, `rest of ...` gets
-- everything after the first item of a list. We treat the two
-- differently because the first item must be placed in a new window, but
-- everything else must be placed in a new tab.
set {first_url, rest_urls} to {item 1 of argv, the rest of argv}
end if
make new document at end of documents with properties {URL:first_url}
tell window 1
repeat with the_url in rest_urls
make new tab at end of tabs with properties {URL:the_url}
end repeat
end tell
activate
end tell
end run
You could even create an alias for this in Terminal and be able to use it easier. I would add the following to ~/.bash_profile:
alias newwindow='osascript /path/to/new_window.scpt'
Call newwindow whatever you want. Save .bash_profile and restart Terminal for it to work.
In case anyone is looking for a similar solution for Google Chrome, here is a different take on the same idea.
chrome_new_window.scpt
on run argv
tell application "Google Chrome"
if (count argv) = 0 then
make new window
else
tell (make new window)
set URL of active tab to item 1 of argv
repeat with the_url in the rest of argv
open location the_url
end repeat
end tell
end if
set active tab index of first window to 1
activate
end tell
end run
Best Answer
Replace your link with this one:
You can open it without open your safari. Of course, only works with iTunes installed.