Command-C Workflow

[morocons]

Updated: Hopefully, this might be of use to someone. This workflow contains four scripts, one to send the clipboard contents to an iOS device using Command-C, two to send a URL to Safari in iOS using Command-C, from either Safari or Chrome, and the fourth to send a phone number to iOS (thanks, Paul!). Also, thanks to Vítor for the help with the scripts!

 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/xcb99na9b7csgv4/Command-C.alfredworkflow?dl=0

 

Instructions: replace all instances of "Someone's iPhone" in the scripts with your device name.

Edited May 18, 2015 by morocons

[vitor]

Here’s how you can do it in Chrome, and other browsers. You’ll also find code to allow you to shorten all the lines you use to get the url from Safari (reducing it to one).

[morocons]

Here’s how you can do it in Chrome, and other browsers. You’ll also find code to allow you to shorten all the lines you use to get the url from Safari (reducing it to one).

 

Thanks, Vitor. I had seen this when putting together the workflow, and I tried using the Safari command in the URL part of it. Unfortunately, I think the script does something specific with respect to Safari and the URL that breaks when I replace the lines with the one line from your post, and I'm not competent to figure out what it might be (though I suspect it has to do with how the script gets and then encodes the URL) or how to fix it.

[vitor]

Try replacing this block in your script

tell application "Safari"
  set theActiveWindow to first window
  set theActiveTab to current tab of theActiveWindow
  set theDecodedURL to URL of theActiveTab as string
  set theActiveURL to my urlencode(theDecodedURL) as string
end tell

with this

tell application "Safari"
  set theDecodedURL to URL of front document
  set theActiveURL to my urlencode(theDecodedURL) as string
end tell

and it should work as intended.

For Chrome, you’d do

tell application "Google Chrome"
  set theDecodedURL to URL of active tab of front window
  set theActiveURL to my urlencode(theDecodedURL) as string
end tell

[morocons]

That's really helpful, thank you!

 

(If it's not obvious already, I'm a complete amateur when it comes to scripting...)

Edited June 16, 2014 by morocons

[paulw]

 

Nice, thanks for the workflow. I made a workflow for using command-C to dial a number on your iPhone. Feel free to include it in your workflow if you like.

[morocons]

Done! Thanks, Paul.

 

Edit: Workflow updated to include script to send phone number to iOS via Command-C.

Edited June 18, 2014 by morocons