Send Chrome tab to Safari's Reading List

[jeremyv]

I use Chrome on my desktop, but I like to do all of my reading on my iPad or iPhone and I like using the Reading List built into Safari. I've used Pocket for this before, but a lot of stuff ends up in Safari's Reading List when I'm using the Twitter client on iOS. This workflow will take your current Chrome tab and send it to Safari's Reading List.

 

 

 

Installation Instructions

 

From a terminal window, run:

sudo gem install rb-appscript

Download the workflow from:

 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/bnxbpiabtcjfz60/Chrome%20to%20Safari%20Reading%20List.alfredworkflow

 

 

 

Usage

 

Type `rl` in Alfred

 

 

 

 

Script copied from:

https://gist.github.com/pdxmph/1342437

[Cyberhec]

I followed all of the above instructions and got this error:

 

MyName-Air:~ MyName$ sudo gem install rb-appscript

Password:

Fetching: rb-appscript-0.6.1.gem (100%)

Building native extensions.  This could take a while...

ERROR:  Error installing rb-appscript:

ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

 

    /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/bin/ruby extconf.rb

mkmf.rb can't find header files for ruby at /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/lib/ruby/include/ruby.h

 

 

Gem files will remain installed in /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/rb-appscript-0.6.1 for inspection.

Results logged to /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/rb-appscript-0.6.1/./gem_make.out

MyName-Air:~ MyName$ 

 

When I enter Alfred it doesn't find the command "rl"

 

Any help appreciated !!

[ericd]

This solved the issue for me. It's a compatibility issue with clang & Xcode 5.1, see this link for more info.

sudo CONFIGURE_ARGS="--with-ldflags='-Wno-error=unused-command-line-argument-hard-error-in-future'" gem install rb-appscript

[henrith]

I am sorry but since I am new to this, and especially coding in general, what am I supposed to do with the last string you posted as a fix to the above problem?

Tried copy pasting into the terminal both from the beginning and after I got the same error as above.
 

Help much appreciated, cause it's a very useful bathroom break workflow, thanks!

[mishtershmart]

Hi there,

 

I'm getting the following require error when I try to use this script;

[ERROR: alfred.workflow.action.script] Code 1: /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/lib/ruby/2.0.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:55:in `require': cannot load such file -- appscript (LoadError)
from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/lib/ruby/2.0.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:55:in `require'
from -e:4:in `<main>'

Anyone got a suggestion on how to fix this? I ran the install of appscript and everything seemed to go ok.

 

Cheers,

Phil

[judgejohn82]

Hi,

 

Love this workflow but is there any chance you could create a similar one for Firefox users? I tried playing around with your code and substituting "Google Chrome" to "Firefox" but that did not seem to work and that is about the limit of my coding skills!

 

Thanks

[dominsbeard]

from github (https://gist.github.com/pdxmph/1342437) is a much easier way without needing the ruby install

 

tell application "Google Chrome"

set pageUrl to get URL of active tab of first window

end tell

tell application "Safari" to add reading list item pageUrl

[hairboat]

Thanks for this. Nice and clean. For others, if you want Safari to quit after adding this reading list item, just append

safari.quit

to the end of the script.

[dipanjanc]

Hi,

which version of ruby and which version of bundler will this work with?

I have installed ruby through rbenv as opposed to RVM, is that an issue?

the error reads as follows:

ERROR:  Loading command: install (LoadError)

dlopen(~/.rbenv/versions/2.1.3/lib/ruby/2.1.0/x86_64-darwin13.0/openssl.bundle, 9): Symbol not found: _SSLv2_client_method

  Referenced from: ~/.rbenv/versions/2.1.3/lib/ruby/2.1.0/x86_64-darwin13.0/openssl.bundle

  Expected in: /usr/local/opt/openssl/lib/libssl.1.0.0.dylib

 in ~/.rbenv/versions/2.1.3/lib/ruby/2.1.0/x86_64-darwin13.0/openssl.bundle - ~/.rbenv/versions/2.1.3/lib/ruby/2.1.0/x86_64-darwin13.0/openssl.bundle

ERROR:  While executing gem ... (NoMethodError)

    undefined method `invoke_with_build_args' for nil:NilClass

 

 

 

Thanks.

Edited April 1, 2015 by dipanjanc