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Regarding a previous hint involving webpage saving and applescript...
While this isn't directly related to the above hint, I believe it is relevant to those of us that are still searching for an easy way to archive favorite webpages (since Safari lacks a IE-type scrapbook):
I've been trying to automate pasting selected content from Safari to TexEdit (See this hint from a few days ago) with an applescript. Unfortunately, I don't know diddly about scripting and could use some help. Here's what I have so far:
Now, obviously, this does not quite work as intended. It does select the contents of the page in Safari, copies and then pastes it into a new document in TextEdit. What I'd like it to do is this: After the paste into TextEdit, automatically have the file named after the window in Safari and saved in a specific folder (for example, "~/Users/MyName/Documents/Web Snapshots/" At this point, I give up. But I would love to use this while in Safari to archive articles without any fuss. Can anybody lend a hand with this little project? I also thought others might be interested in using this, too -- once it's finished! Thanks (again) for your time!
Regarding a previous hint involving webpage saving and applescript...
Man oh man, would I love a replacement for IE's scrapbook. Neither mailing pages to myself, nor saving them as PDFs, comes close to the convenience of a scrapbook. I'm not much of a scripter either, but I'm happy to try and bang on this.
Regarding a previous hint involving webpage saving and applescript...
I use MacJournal (freeware) for archiving selected text or entire web pages (complete with images and working urls) in Safari. MacJournal shows up in the Services menu so it's a simple matter to select/Select All and create a new entry. MacJournal may not have all the html bells and whistles but it's stable, v. useful and the price is right.
Regarding a previous hint involving webpage saving and applescript...
I agree -- MacJournal is an excellent app and I recommend it highly. One thing though: when pasting into it from Safari using the Services menu (as mentioned above), it doesn't automatically list the title of the webpage as an entry (unless I'm missing something). Perhaps the developer of MacJournal could be kindly coerced into adding this feature so it could double as a kind of IE-type scrapbook ;)
Personally, I'm looking for a single-click solution from my selection in Safari straight to a saved file in a default destination folder (such as ~users/myname/documents/web archive/) -- complete with the original webpage title as filename and including clickable links. If only Applescript wasn't so damn difficult to pick up! Aargh!!
Regarding a previous hint involving webpage saving and applescript...
Good start. Thanks! Here's the basic addition you ask for. I'm sure you can polish it. Remove the click 'Save' at the end of your script and add:
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