[Workflow Request]: Adding URLs to Bufferapp.com

[panrubius]

Hello People,

 

I'd really appreciate some help with this workflow, just a starting point would be great because I'm not entirely sure where to begin. I would like to be able to add any URL open in  my browser to my Bufferapp.com queue. Buffer is a web app that enables you to add links that you find interesting to a queue, and then buffer will tweet them out on your behalf at schedule you devise.

 

At the moment I'm using the Google Chrome extension adds a contacts menu each time you right click on a link, or any other part of a web page; there is also supposed to be a keyboard shortcut but it is really unreliable, and after quite a long to-ing and fro-ing with the people at buffer we were not able to solve the problem.

 

So Alfred to the rescue it is! (Hopefully)

 

As far as I can tell I would need to be able to detect which browser I'm using, grab the link in question and then add it to the buffer. They have an API but I've been reading around it for a couple of days, and I'm still none the wiser.

 

Has anybody got any ideas about where I might start?

 

Cheers :-)

[jdfwarrior]

I'm not familiar with their API but it all seems relatively easy.

 

Grabbing the current application can be done with Applescript. This would be used to determine what browser to read the URL of (unless you know its always the same). Vitor put a post up a while back showing how to grab the URL of the front tab of most browsers (here). After that, you have the URL in question, you just need to work through their API to save the URL. Have you had issues with their API?

[panrubius]

My problems with the API is that my coding skills are rubbish! I'd fallen at the first hurdle with trying to grab the URL from the browser, so now that I have an idea where to start I might be able to wage through the API and come up with something.

 

I will let you know where I get to with it, I mean, what can possibly go wrong?!

 

:-)

[jdfwarrior]

My problems with the API is that my coding skills are rubbish! I'd fallen at the first hurdle with trying to grab the URL from the browser, so now that I have an idea where to start I might be able to wage through the API and come up with something.

 

I will let you know where I get to with it, I mean, what can possibly go wrong?!

 

:-)

 

Well.. since you asked.. you can accidentally divide by zero and cause and endless loop that generates so much traffic that you overload Bufferapp's servers. The server could get so hot that it overheats, catches fire, and burns down their server and all other servers located in that data center. What if a large scale porn site was also located in that facility? With large groups of people unable to.. well.. you know, they would go crazy and run amuck all over the globe. There would be mass chaos. Riots, fires, etc. The chaos could cause a global ecological shift, the ice caps could melt, the ozone layer could dissolve while we all sit back and cook to death. This is all hypothetical but, please, be careful

[panrubius]

*Puts laptop in a locked box*

 

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*In a hole at the bottom of the garden*

 

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*hides under the bed*

[Bver]

Hello People,

 

I'd really appreciate some help with this workflow, just a starting point would be great because I'm not entirely sure where to begin. I would like to be able to add any URL open in  my browser to my Bufferapp.com queue. Buffer is a web app that enables you to add links that you find interesting to a queue, and then buffer will tweet them out on your behalf at schedule you devise.

 

At the moment I'm using the Google Chrome extension adds a contacts menu each time you right click on a link, or any other part of a web page; there is also supposed to be a keyboard shortcut but it is really unreliable, and after quite a long to-ing and fro-ing with the people at buffer we were not able to solve the problem.

 

So Alfred to the rescue it is! (Hopefully)

 

As far as I can tell I would need to be able to detect which browser I'm using, grab the link in question and then add it to the buffer. They have an API but I've been reading around it for a couple of days, and I'm still none the wiser.

 

Has anybody got any ideas about where I might start?

 

Cheers :-)

Sorry if this has already been solved. But why not just use the Chrome extension for Buffer?