How to Open a Website with Applescript
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Hi There all…
To make applescript open to any web page you would like insert the following code into the top of your applescript document:
to goToWebPage(theWebPage) tell application "Safari" activate set URL of document 1 to theWebPage end tell end goToWebPage
When you would like to go to a website use this anywhere in your code.
goToWebPage("http://thewebsite.com")
NOTE: This will not work if it is already inside of a Safari Tell Statement.
Will work:
tell application "Safari" --some code... end tell goToWebPage("http://thewebsite.com") tell application "Safari" --some code... end tell
Will Not Work:
tell application "Safari"
goToWebPage("http://thewebsite.com")
end tell
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Hi Samuel, Thanks a bunch for the code examples.
Note that the code in many of your examples cannot be copy/pasted without causing runtime errors. I’m not sure the culprit, but my mac copies open and closed quotes from your web pages to the applescript editor, and the quotes cause a strange error that many newbies won’t easily recognize.
I hope this helps,
Michael
It says that “can’t continue to webpage”
to goToWebPage(“http://www.google.com”)
tell application “Safari”
activate
set URL of document 1 to theWebPage(“http://www.google.com”)
end tell
end goToWebPage
goToWebPage(“http://www.google.com”)
Hey Raceer,
I think you might have goToWebPage inside of a safari tell statement. You have to put it outside of the tell statement for it to work. So instead of
Tell Application “Safari”
goToWebPage(“http://www.google.com”)
end tell
it needs to be like this:
goToWebPage(“http://www.google.com”)
Tell Application “Safari”
other code you want to do…
end tell
A shorter and easier version is
to goToWebPage(specifiedURL)
do shell script “open ” & specifiedURL
end goToWebPage
goToWebPage(“http://google.com”)
Opens in your default browser