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applescript
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A high-level way to execute AppleScript code through NodeJS, and retrieve
the result as a native JavaScript object. Underneath the hood, this
module is just a simple wrapper around the OS X osascript
command.
AppleScripts are the only way to communicate and interact with certain external OS X processes, for example iTunes.
$ npm install applescript
The node-applescript
module provides execString
and execFile
functions
to easily execute AppleScript commands and buffer the output into a calback.
var applescript = require('applescript');
// Very basic AppleScript command. Returns the song name of each
// currently selected track in iTunes as an 'Array' of 'String's.
var script = 'tell application "iTunes" to get name of selection';
applescript.execString(script, function(err, rtn) {
if (err) {
// Something went wrong!
}
if (Array.isArray(rtn)) {
rtn.forEach(function(songName) {
console.log(songName);
});
}
});
execFile
works the exact same way, except you pass the path of the AppleScript
(*.applescript
) file as the first argument instead of the command itself, and you
may pass an optional Array of String arguments to send to the applescript file.
The node-applescript
module is licensed under the MIT license, of course!
FAQs
Easily execute arbitrary AppleScript code on OS X through NodeJS.
The npm package applescript receives a total of 14,348 weekly downloads. As such, applescript popularity was classified as popular.
We found that applescript demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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