This weekend I was bustling about in Applescript and noticed that Automator now has a Get URL from Safari module. I remembered that there have been multiple requests on the forum for something like this so I built an Automator Service that will grab the current text selection in the Safari window, append the url of the page to it and put both up on the clipboard.
Qualifications
This only will copy text
This only works with Safari
This probably only works in Snow Leopard because it uses new Automator features
Download the attached zip file, double-click it, and drag the resulting Text and URL to Clipboard.workflow file to [your home folder]/Library/Services
Thanks so much for doing this. However, when I double click the zipped file, it produces another zipped file called TextAndURLToClipboard.zip.cpgz. When I double click that one, it produces another TextAndURLToClipboard.zip. Neither is the workflow you mentioned. Can you fix?
Ooh, I love new words! “Munged.” Will have to remember that one.
Service works a treat now. What I’d really love is a two step option (1. select and 2. single keyboard shortcut) that would let me grab text and URL from a webpage or email or whatever and automatically drop both on a TextEdit or Bean file. But this is certainly almost as quick, and very helpful to those of us who hunt and gather on the web. Thanks again!
… and so I shall! Already have them for clipping to Bean, Scrivener, and TextEdit. They just don’t include the URL. Some people are never satisfied…
thanks again.
Actually, what would be even faster would be a little service that allowed me to just THINK what text I wanted moved from web page to whatever text editor or other app I could imagine and it would just happen automagically. No more messing with those pesky menu or keyboard commands. I’m sure it wouldn’t take very long to to code … Then you could work on one that would let me think of the basic idea for my next novel and have the words automatically appear in Scrivener, properly formatted of course. I’ll be happy to beta test!
It’s back in the labs, I think. Unfortunately, it’ll be a while: they can’t get it to output anything other than the same sex scenes and GTD lists over and over. . . .
