Find and activate link on Webpage

logic2design · January 15, 2022, 4:03am

Hi,

I made this script to help someone who wanted to find and open a link on a webpage based on a search value.

Thought it might be of value to others.

Cheers

Iain

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/logic2design/4ec1840adf4896a7c9b94c8a0f2587f8

Safari - Open specific link on the webpage.applescript

use AppleScript version "2.4"
use framework "Foundation"
use scripting additions

### Nominated Website option
(*
set urlLink to "http://www.apple.com"
tell application "Safari"
set the URL of the front document to urlLink
delay 2

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anon41602260 · January 15, 2022, 12:13pm

That’s interesting. What’s the use case – versus just using ⌘F (Find) on a webpage?

logic2design · January 16, 2022, 12:54am

I was helping someone with their particular issue, not sure about all of the details but I presume it was for some form of web scraping.

I did find that often the URL link will differ from the web page content so a ⌘F search will not always get the required result. I have a sample of this below.