Get now playing song and pass it to a URL

[noahm]

Hello!

 

Not too sure what I’m doing or how to “pass” a result through to a URL. I have the following code in AppleScript and it’s showing me the appropriate result

 

tell application "Music"
	return (get name of current track) & (" ") & (get artist of current track)
end tell

 

I now want to pass that (song name and artist name) into a search result I have e.g.

 

https://example.com/s=SongName%20ArtistName

 

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

[jhncbrwn]

Is this helpful?

 

tell application "Music"
	set MySearchtext to (get name of current track) & (" ") & (get artist of current track)
end tell

set MyURL to "https://example.com/s=" & MySearchtext

--If you want to open it in safari
tell application "Safari"
	open location MyURL
end tell

--If you want to pass it on to a open url Alfred action
return MyURL

 

Edited August 12, 2021 by jhncbrwn

[noahm]

@jhncbrwn thanks for your help! 

 

Unfortunately it doesn’t seem to be working for me.

 

I have the following Workflow setup, and it’s only opening up Safari and doing nothing else ☹️ :

 

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1. Keyword (Inputs → Keyword)

 

↓

 

2. Run NSAppleScript (Actions → Run NSAppleScript):

tell application "Music"
	set MySearchtext to (get name of current track) & (" ") & (get artist of current track)
end tell

set MyURL to "https://example.com/s=" & MySearchtext

return MyURL

↓

 

3. Open URL (Actions → Open URL)

 

 

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Also worth mentioning I’d rather just have it pass the result to the next action (if possible) rather than opening the URL via the script (i.e. type keyword, get music, pass that result to a “Open URL” action with an already built “Custom Search”)

 

Thanks!

 

[deanishe]

39 minutes ago, noahm said:

Also worth mentioning I’d rather just have it pass the result to the next action

 

tell application "Music" to return (get name of current track) & " " & (get artist of current track)

 

Letting Alfred put the query in the URL is smarter because Alfred will properly URL-encode it.

[noahm]

46 minutes ago, deanishe said:

Letting Alfred put the query in the URL is smarter because Alfred will properly URL-encode it.

 

I’m sorry, @deanishe, I’m not following on what to do... 🥴

 

Thanks for your patience.

 

[deanishe]

You put http://example.com?s={query} in the Open URL, and Alfred makes sure that the contents of {query} are properly URL-encoded. @jhncbrwn's script doesn't URL-encode the query, so the URL it creates will be invalid a lot of the time.

[noahm]

Thanks @deanishe and @jhncbrwn!

 

I was trying that, but I actually using the “NSAppleScript” action which was causing the issues. Changing to "Run Script" (Actions → Run Script) and using “osascript (AppleScript)” executes everything properly.

Edited August 13, 2021 by noahm
Thought it was gonna render the markdown

[deanishe]

1 hour ago, noahm said:

I actually using the `NSAppleScript`

Right. Don't use that: it's a bit stupid.