The escapeurl script, included in the repository, is called by snippet to do the encoding. It uses the Metamark shortening API, which requires special characters in the input URL to be encoded. This is an AppleScript snippet that prints the shortened URL of the frontmost tab of the frontmost browser window (“surl” = “shortened URL”). These expansions of furl were first described here and generalized to work with Chrome and Safari here. I use the abbreviations 1url through 6url to invoke them. These are AppleScript snippets that print the URL of the nth tab, counting from the left, of the frontmost browser window. I carried it along when I switched to TextExpander, then generalized it to handle both Chrome and Safari here. The original version of this snippet (written for TypeIt4Me) is described here. I use the abbreviation furl to invoke it.

This is an AppleScript snippet that prints the URL of the frontmost tab of the frontmost browser window (“furl” = “front URL”).

If Chrome is running, and Safari isn’t, get the URL from Chrome.If Safari is running, regardless of whether Chrome is running, get the URL from Safari.They use either AppleScript directly or Python with the appscript library and work with both Safari and Google Chrome. These are the TextExpander snippets I use to capture the URLs of pages I’m browsing and, in some cases, transform them. Here’s the repository’s README, which describes all the snippets. Some of the snippets transform the URL-typically by shortening-before printing it. Since the pages I want to link to are typically showing in the browser window behind the editor, I figured the most efficient solution was to use AppleScript (or the appscript library for Python) and TextExpander to grab those URLs and print them as type-with no context switching. The purpose of these snippets is to allow me to write about web pages without constantly switching from my text editor to the browser and back to cut and paste URLs. The two others are Flickr-specific snippets that I described here and here, but updated to work with Chrome as well as Safari. Most of these are the snippets I talked about in this post last week. I’ve just created a GitHub repository for all my URL-getting and URL-transforming TextExpander snippets. Next post Previous post TextExpander snippet repository

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