Macworld

How to use Script Editor to re-authorize a balky AppleScript in macOS Catalina and later

If you’ve kicked around with a Mac for more than a few years and you read Macworld, you almost certainly have an AppleScript or seven that you rely on for certain custom features. I wrote a very ...
Houston Chronicle

How to Use the Script Editor on a Mac

Mac OS offers AppleScript as a powerful automation tool you can use to share data among applications and turn complex file-management tasks into single-click programs. First implemented in 1992, when ...
Ars Technica

AppleScript help: How to set values in QuickTime 7's A/V options?

Any AppleScript gurus here today? I have a bunch of podcasts that I still haven't listened to and I'd like to quickly go through them. I usually listen to them on my iPhone (with playback speed set to ...
Ars Technica

AppleScript, this time with a dash of Python

I'm not sure exactly when or why this happened, but the new rage in scripting these days seems to be finding ways to get around using AppleScript. As you may recall, O'Reilly offered a great guide on ...
Macworld

Apple article shows how to use AppleScript and Perl

Developer documentation on Apple’s Web site tracks working with Mac OS X’s Web services, AppleScript and Perl via SOAP, or Simple Object Access Protocol, a platform-independent communications standard ...
MacStories

How to Batch Convert Shortcuts for Use Throughout Monterey and with Other Automation Apps

My latest Shortcuts experiments began in earnest on my way back from Rome. I stopped in Ireland for a few days to deal with COVID testing and start ramping back up to my normal work routine. I wasn’t ...