Need a workflow to close left tabs or right tabs in Safari

[sesweitzer]

Greetings,

I'm trying to find an Alfred 3 workflow that will allow me to close all the tabs to the left or to the right of the selected tab in Safari 9.1.2. I was using a Workflow called BrowserTabs but it seems to have quite working.

 

Thanks,

Steve

[deanishe]

Put this in a Run Script Action with Language = /usr/bin/osascript (JS)

// Close Safari tabs to the left of the active one.

ObjC.import('stdlib')


function run(argv) {
  var count = 0,
    safari = Application('Safari'),
    win = safari.windows[0],
    tabs = win.tabs,
    currentIdx = win.currentTab.index();

  if (currentIdx == 1) {
    console.log('No tabs to close.')
    return
  }

  // start at currentIdx - 2 due to 0-indexing in JS
  for (i = currentIdx - 2; i >= 0; i--) {
    var tab = tabs[i];
    tabs[i].close();
    count++;
  }
  console.log(count + ' tab(s) closed');
}

[deanishe]

And here's "Close Tabs to Right":

 

 

 

 

// Close Safari tabs to the right of the active one.

ObjC.import('stdlib')

function run(argv) {
  var count = 0,
    safari = Application('Safari'),
    win = safari.windows[0],
    tabs = win.tabs,
    currentIdx = win.currentTab.index();
  // console.log('Tab ' + currentIdx + '/' + tabs.length + ' active.');
  if (currentIdx == tabs.length) {
    console.log('No tabs to close.')
    return
  }
 
  var first = tabs.length - 1,
    last = currentIdx;
  for (i = first; i >= last; i--) {
    // console.log('Closing tab ' + (i+1) + ' ...');
    var tab = tabs[i];
    tabs[i].close();
    count++;
  }
  console.log(count + ' tab(s) closed');
}

 

 

Edited May 13, 2021 by deanishe

[sesweitzer]

Thanks deanishe! I just bought you a beer.

 

I didn't totally understand your instructions because I've never created a workflow but you gave me enough and I got it working.  Thanks for for the help and for getting me to the next level of using Alfred. It seems so simple now. 

[deanishe]

Thanks very much! I'll spend than on some of the lovely IPA the local beer shop has just started selling.

[deanishe]

FWIW, I mostly use those Safari scripts (and others) with my AppScripts workflow. If you have a lot of scripts, it's maybe worth a look.

[nycdude]

Hi, does this "Close tabs to the right" code still work in safari 14?

Is there a workflow for this?

 

 

[deanishe]

8 hours ago, nycdude said:

Hi, does this "Close tabs to the right" code still work in safari 14?

 

It appears to, yes. Why didn't you take two minutes to test it for yourself and find out?

[nycdude]

I don't know how to test it. I'm not a developer or anything close to that; just a user of Alfred workflows, but I will find someone to test for me. Thanks!

Edited May 14, 2021 by nycdude