Scraping Source in Safari
Sun, 2008 Mar 30, 6:19pm
Here is an applescript solution for grabbing the html code from a page online. This is particularly handy if you are trying to grab the code from a page that you need to login to. I am sure there is a much better solution out there, but this one seems to work for me ok.
CODE:
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-- Define the page to save the document and the url
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set the pageFile to "/Users/yourUserNameHere/Desktop/safariSource.html"
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set the pageUrl to "http://www.plasticstare.com/"
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-- define the applescript to run
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tell application "Safari"
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activate
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make new document at end of documents
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set URL of document 1 to pageUrl
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end tell
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set web_page_is_loaded to false
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--check if page has loaded
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repeat
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delay 0.5
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tell application "System Events" to tell application process "Safari"
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if (name of static text 1 of group 1 of window 1 as text) begins with "Contacting" or (name of static text 1 of group 1 of window 1 as text) begins with "Loading" then
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-- do nothing
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else
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exit repeat
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end if
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end tell
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end repeat
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tell application "Safari"
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set siteSource to the source of document 1 as text
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set theFile to open for access (pageFile) as POSIX file with write permission
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set eof of theFile to 0
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write siteSource to theFile
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close access theFile
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end tell
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