A collection of useful AppleScripts

applescripts.md

A collection of useful AppleScripts, usually to be used with OS X Automator

gmail.scpt

# Open a new Chrome ignognito tab for Gmail

if application "Google Chrome" is running then
	
  tell application "Google Chrome"
    set theURL to URL of active tab of window 1
    set incogWin to make new window with properties {mode:"incognito"}
    set incogTab to active tab of window 1
    tell incogTab
      set URL to "https://gmail.com"
    end tell
  end tell
	
else
  do shell script "open -a /Applications/Google\\ Chrome.app --args --incognito https://gmail.com"
end if

tell application "Google Chrome" to activate

spotify-play-random-music.scpt

# Play a random album on Spotify

tell application "System Events" to set runningApps to every application process's name
if runningApps does not contain "Spotify" then
  # Open Spotify on the background
  do shell script "open -ga /Applications/Spotify.app"
  # Hide the newly opened Spotify window
  tell application "Finder"
    set visible of process "Spotify" to false
  end tell
end if

set spotifyUri to do shell script "curl http://www.spotifynewmusic.com/randomalbumgenerator.php\\?site\\=All\\&score\\=0\\&genrefilter\\=All\\&weeks\\=52 | grep -oh 'spotify:album:\\w*'"
tell application "Spotify" to play track spotifyUri