Safari Assistant

[deanishe]

Safari Assistant

 

All-in-one workflow for Safari.

 

• Filter tabs, bookmarks (and bookmarklets), reading list and history.
• Several built-in actions. Easily add your own via scripts.
• Assign your favourite actions (or bookmarklets) to alternate actions (i.e. ⌥↩, ^↩ etc.).
  

Download from GitHub releases. Source code.

 

Built-in tab actions:

• Close Tab
• Close Window
• Close Other Tabs
• Close Tabs to Left
• Close Tabs to Right
  

Built-in URL actions (also work on tabs):

• Open in Private Window
• Open in Default Browser
• Open in Chrome
• Open in Firefox
  

 

Usage

 

• bh [<query>] — Search and open/action bookmarks and recent history.
  • ↩ — Open item in browser.
  • ⌘↩ — Show URL actions for selected item.
  • ⌥↩ — Run custom action on selected item.
  • ^↩ — Run custom action on selected item.
  • fn↩ — Run custom action on selected item.
  • ⇧↩ — Run custom action on selected item.
• bm [<query>] — Search and open/action bookmarks.
  • ↩, ⌘↩, ⌥↩, ^↩, fn↩, ⇧↩ — As above.
• bml [<query>] — Search and run bookmarklets.
  • ↩ — Run bookmarklet in active tab.
• bmf [<query>] — Search bookmark folders.
  • ↩ — Enter folder/open bookmark.
  • ⌘↩ — Open all bookmarks in folder/show URL actions for bookmark.
• hi [<query>] — Search and open/action history entries.
  • ↩, ⌘↩, ⌥↩, ^↩, fn↩, ⇧↩ — As above.
• rl [<query>] — Search and open/action Reading List entries.
  • ↩, ⌘↩, ⌥↩, ^↩, fn↩, ⇧↩ — As above.
• tab [<query>] — Search and activate/action Safari tabs.
  • ↩ — Activate the selected tab.
  • ⌘↩, ⌥↩, ^↩, fn↩, ⇧↩ — As above.

 

See the README on GitHub for full usage instructions.

[xilopaint]

Nice workflow. But I'm missing the Steve Jobs glasses. These are more from Bill Gates. 

 

 

 

 

[deanishe]

3 minutes ago, xilopaint said:

But I'm missing the Steve Jobs glasses

 

Too bad. I can't icon to save my life, and this is the only glasses icon in the icon generator  

[vitor]

1 hour ago, deanishe said:

Too bad. I can't icon to save my life, and this is the only glasses icon in the icon generator  

 

Something like this?

 

Done in a flash; haven’t checked for consistency with the other icons. If you like them feel free to use them (SVG and PNG). No attribution necessary.

[deanishe]

10 hours ago, vitor said:

Done in a flash;

 

Show off

 

10 hours ago, vitor said:

haven’t checked for consistency with the other icons

 

There is no consistency anyway. Like I said, I can’t icon. I just pick some mostly random colours, then try to find something vaguely appropriate on my icon generator.

 

Will release a new version with your Jobsian specs later or tomorrow. Thanks very much!

[Vero]

@vitor @deanishe Ah, what a team you two make!  

[deanishe]

Jobsian spectables icon added to v0.3.2.

Edited November 2, 2017 by deanishe
Point link to release

[xilopaint]

lol@release notes. 

[deanishe]

I've just edited the release notes to add a link to your post in order to acknowledge the guilty…

 

It truly never occurred to me that the reading list icon was meant to resemble Jobs' glasses.

Edited November 1, 2017 by deanishe

[deanishe]

Added the ability to blacklist (hide) actions in v0.4.

Edited November 2, 2017 by deanishe
Point link to release

[deanishe]

v0.4.1 fixes a bug with URL actions.

[Aesir Zoe]

It's  great!  I have installed it and found it's helpful.

Is it possible showing the Safari History in different devices (iPad,iPhone...)? 
 

[deanishe]

12 minutes ago, Aesir Zoe said:

Is it possible showing the Safari History in different devices (iPad,iPhone...)? 

 

What do you mean exactly? Your iPhone/iPad history is already included if you have Safari syncing turned on.

[Aesir Zoe]

49 minutes ago, deanishe said:

 

What do you mean exactly? Your iPhone/iPad history is already included if you have Safari syncing turned on.

Yes, I found this Workflow can show me the (recent) History of Safari in my iPhone&iPad via inputting some key-word(s) to dig it out

 

Thank you.

[nikivi]

Since Safari Assist has read only access to things and as @deanishe said, you can't immediately delete a bookmark URL from Alfred itself.

 

I made an Applescript that does it for me. Given a URL, it will search the URL in your bookmarks and then you can delete it from there. I can't find a faster / better way to do this but it is better than nothing.

 

Here is the Applescript. I guess @deanishe won't add this as this script relies on macOS being in English and also it is not one of the most smooth running things out there but it works.

 

-- `menu_click`, by Jacob Rus, September 2006
-- 
-- Accepts a list of form: `{"Finder", "View", "Arrange By", "Date"}`
-- Execute the specified menu item.  In this case, assuming the Finder 
-- is the active application, arranging the frontmost folder by date.

on menu_click(mList)
	local appName, topMenu, r
	
	-- Validate our input
	if mList's length < 3 then error "Menu list is not long enough"
	
	-- Set these variables for clarity and brevity later on
	set {appName, topMenu} to (items 1 through 2 of mList)
	set r to (items 3 through (mList's length) of mList)
	
	-- This overly-long line calls the menu_recurse function with
	-- two arguments: r, and a reference to the top-level menu
	tell application "System Events" to my menu_click_recurse(r, ((process appName)'s ¬
		(menu bar 1)'s (menu bar item topMenu)'s (menu topMenu)))
end menu_click

on menu_click_recurse(mList, parentObject)
	local f, r
	
	-- `f` = first item, `r` = rest of items
	set f to item 1 of mList
	if mList's length > 1 then set r to (items 2 through (mList's length) of mList)
	
	-- either actually click the menu item, or recurse again
	tell application "System Events"
		if mList's length is 1 then
			click parentObject's menu item f
		else
			my menu_click_recurse(r, (parentObject's (menu item f)'s (menu f)))
		end if
	end tell
end menu_click_recurse


on run argv
	set the clipboard to (item 1 of argv)
	tell application "Safari" to activate
	
	tell application "System Events"
		keystroke "t" using command down
		delay 1
	end
	
	menu_click({"Safari", "Bookmarks", "Edit Bookmarks"})
	
	tell application "System Events"
		keystroke "f" using command down
		delay 1
		keystroke "v" using command down
	end tell
end run

 

Edited November 27, 2017 by nikivi

[nikivi]

Okay, for some reason this works when searching on bookmarks but searching active safari tabs and pressing cmd + return to see actions I get this: 

Not quite sure why. From the docs it says there is no flag before argument and it is: /path/to/script http://www.example.com

 

Edited November 27, 2017 by nikivi

[deanishe]

That's a pretty screenshot! Looks much better than the ugly old log, doesn't it?

Edited November 27, 2017 by deanishe

[nikivi]

Oops. I actually checked the log too but it said a similar thing. Going to make an Anki card for this screenshot thing.

 

Strangely though, this started working for me both in bookmarks and current safari tabs. 

 

Also changed the delay to 1 everywhere as it failed on some cases but worked on others, it still fails sometimes, perhaps should push the delay even higher. I don't quite get though why it works sometimes and doesn't work at others. The delay is the same and it should take the same time every time.

Edited November 27, 2017 by nikivi

[deanishe]

There's probably still an issue, though, because it didn't work for you 30 minutes ago. But if you're not going to post a log, it's your problem, not mine.

 

[nikivi]

Here's a log of it running:

 

[2017-11-27 02:23:51][utility.debug] Processing output of 'action.script' with arg ''
[2017-11-27 02:23:51][utility.debug] Processing output of 'utility.filter' with arg ''
[2017-11-27 02:23:51][utility.debug] Processing output of 'utility.filter' with arg ''
[2017-11-27 02:23:51][utility.debug] Processing output of 'utility.filter' with arg ''
[2017-11-27 02:23:51][utility.debug] Processing output of 'utility.filter' with arg ''
[2017-11-27 02:23:51][utility.debug] Processing output of 'utility.filter' with arg ''
[2017-11-27 02:23:54][ERROR: action.script] ?
02:23:51 workflow.go:614: ------- Safari Assistant/0.4.3 (AwGo/0.13) -------
02:23:51 alsf.go:274: URL=https://2io90-11.slack.com/messages/C81UCU11R/, action=Search in Bookmarks
02:23:51 actions.go:338: URL Script `Open in Chrome` from `/Users/nikivi/alfred/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows/user.workflow.1F723891-DB61-446E-9EEB-D81C7AE43226/scripts/url/Open in Chrome.sh`
02:23:51 actions.go:338: URL Script `Open in Firefox` from `/Users/nikivi/alfred/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows/user.workflow.1F723891-DB61-446E-9EEB-D81C7AE43226/scripts/url/Open in Firefox.sh`
02:23:51 actions.go:338: URL Script `Open in Private Window` from `/Users/nikivi/alfred/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows/user.workflow.1F723891-DB61-446E-9EEB-D81C7AE43226/scripts/url/Open in Private Window.js`
02:23:51 actions.go:338: URL Script `Search in Bookmarks` from `/Users/nikivi/Library/Application Support/Alfred 3/Workflow Data/net.deanishe.alfred.safari/scripts/url/Search in Bookmarks.applescript`
02:23:51 actions.go:292: &{/usr/bin/osascript [/usr/bin/osascript /Users/nikivi/Library/Application Support/Alfred 3/Workflow Data/net.deanishe.alfred.safari/scripts/url/Search in Bookmarks.applescript https://2io90-11.slack.com/messages/C81UCU11R/] []  <nil> <nil> <nil> [] <nil> <nil> <nil> <nil> <nil> false [] [] [] [] <nil> <nil>}
02:23:53 update.go:171: 2h23m since last check for update
02:23:53 workflow.go:790: ---------------------- 2.4s ----------------------
[2017-11-27 02:23:54][action.script] Processing output of 'output.notification' with arg ''

 

[deanishe]

I need the log from when the error is occurring…

[nikivi]

I fixed it I think. Had to add another delay after menu_call().

 

Here is the full code:

 

-- `menu_click`, by Jacob Rus, September 2006
-- 
-- Accepts a list of form: `{"Finder", "View", "Arrange By", "Date"}`
-- Execute the specified menu item.  In this case, assuming the Finder 
-- is the active application, arranging the frontmost folder by date.

on menu_click(mList)
	local appName, topMenu, r
	
	-- Validate our input
	if mList's length < 3 then error "Menu list is not long enough"
	
	-- Set these variables for clarity and brevity later on
	set {appName, topMenu} to (items 1 through 2 of mList)
	set r to (items 3 through (mList's length) of mList)
	
	-- This overly-long line calls the menu_recurse function with
	-- two arguments: r, and a reference to the top-level menu
	tell application "System Events" to my menu_click_recurse(r, ((process appName)'s ¬
		(menu bar 1)'s (menu bar item topMenu)'s (menu topMenu)))
end menu_click

on menu_click_recurse(mList, parentObject)
	local f, r
	
	-- `f` = first item, `r` = rest of items
	set f to item 1 of mList
	if mList's length > 1 then set r to (items 2 through (mList's length) of mList)
	
	-- either actually click the menu item, or recurse again
	tell application "System Events"
		if mList's length is 1 then
			click parentObject's menu item f
		else
			my menu_click_recurse(r, (parentObject's (menu item f)'s (menu f)))
		end if
	end tell
end menu_click_recurse


on run argv
	set the clipboard to (item 1 of argv)
	tell application "Safari" to activate
	
	tell application "System Events"
		keystroke "t" using command down
		delay 0.5
	end
	
	menu_click({"Safari", "Bookmarks", "Edit Bookmarks"})
	delay 0.5
	
	tell application "System Events"
		keystroke "f" using command down
		delay 0.5
		keystroke "v" using command down
	end tell
end run

 

I can't replicate the previous error I had. If I will get it again, I will post the log. I am open to feedback on this 'script'. It seems to work for my use case. ? 

Edited November 28, 2017 by nikivi

[deanishe]

Regarding the previous error: Are you calling the tab actions external trigger directly, rather than through the workflow?

 

That would explain the error: the calling action sets the URL that was missing. If you’re calling it directly, none of the required variables will be set. 

[nikivi]

The tab actions are called through the workflow I believe. I just call the script filters with the shell script below:

osascript -e '
tell application "Alfred 3" to run trigger "safari tabs" in workflow "net.deanishe.alfred.safari" with argument ""
'

 

Edited November 28, 2017 by nikivi

[deanishe]

That's a trigger you've added. The workflow has no such trigger. If you've added it in the wrong place, the workflow won't work because the necessary variables won't be set.