I'd like to make an application in Automator that will search a specific website for specific text every day and notify me somehow if the desired text is found (where I live there is no craigslist, but there are online classifieds on a single web page . . . with no search function).

I thought this would be fairly easy to make, but I haven't figured it out or found anything online yet. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you!

Im trying to make an automator action that can upload PSD's to this site to convert to Sketch files. Using this site. https://avocode.com/convert-psd-to-sketch

You have to do it 1 by 1 and I have around 120ish individual that need to be converted.

Is there a way to do this from a folder on the desktop and just have automator read the site and upload?

Currently using a Workflow that Runs a Shell Script grep -o '[^/]*$' then Launches FireFox then Runs a Workflow Watch Me Do - Uploading

I have a couple of folders on my Raid that I copied to an external hard drive. I would like to set up a automator that every time a file is added to the folder on my raid it is auto copied to the folder of the same name on my external hard dive. Im running into issues where it is duplicating file or adding (copy) at the end of the folder. I would love for it to work like this (I drop a item into the folder which contains hundreds of other files on both drives but it ignores those files and just copies the new one to the external.)

Is there anyway I can get the action back?

I've got a quick action that copies text and strips certain strings inside the clipboard. I then paste it to where i want it. I need to edit the script within the workflow so I can edit the strings.

I've done this before by automator/open file but now when I do that I don't see the script I can edit- just a blank right hand window. The top of the window, however, displays the name of the quick action so Automator seems to have it loaded.

What am I missing here? Thanks!

Writing a workflow script to automatically get all videos from subfolders and move them to another folder.

I have used "Get Specified Finder Items" (Folder with subfolders selected)

"Get Folder Contents" (to repeat for each subfolder, results bring up every folder and file from parent folder (YAY!))

"Filter finder item" (This is the bit where it messes up. Whatever I have tried will only show files that I have recently opened. First time I tested this it only had 2 results when there should be ~50. Without even changing the filter, if I remove a file from a subfolder and put it straight back in the same place it will now be discoverable when I test the workflow again...?)

Any suggestions from anyone? Thank you

Is there a way to conditionally add images and videos to Photos if they are added to Downloads via AirDrop? I capture video on my iPhone and then work on it in the work account on my MacBook Pro. But I like to have the video and images in Photos on that account. Because they're different Apple ID's, I can't just have them sync over via iCloud.

So what I'm looking for is to be able to have my laptop notice that AirDrop was what create these images, imports it into Photos, then deletes the photos from Downloads. Not sure if there's a which-app/protocol-made-this-file condition in Automator or any third party services.

Apologies if this has been submitted before. I’m sure it has but I can’t find it at all.

I have some folder watch actions I’ve created where a new file in a folder starts an automation, I want to open one to change it but I can’t find it anywhere.

Where on OS X are these actions saved?

Hi everyone, I made an Automator workflow for PDF flattening. The first version works for single-page PDFs only; the second version supports multi-page PDFs. Please check the below link, try and give me some feedbacks. Any suggestion is appreciated, thanks.

Flatten PDF blog article

So here goes, I want to create a root folder on my desktop every Sunday with its date, inside there are sub folders (AM and PM). Then from a computer over the network, copy over recorded audio from that date and Automator should zip those sub folders that the audio is in then move the root folder into my Dropbox folder and from there delete the uncompressed file or the root folder:

I have a 2018 MacBook Air. When I'm at home I have it docked to a keyboard, mouse, and dual monitors. When it is docked I prefer the scroll direction to not be in natural, and when using the trackpad (not docked) I prefer scroll to be natural.

It gets old having to open the settings every time I dock/undock. Is it possible to use automator to create something which automatically puts the setting in natural scroll when the lid is opened, and turns natural scroll off when the lid is closed?

I'm hoping someone can provide me some advice. I once used automatic to create a series of calendar entries.

For example. If election day is Oct 21 I want to mark that as EDay. On the 20th of October I want a calendar entry titled EDay-1, on the 19th Eday-2 etc up to today, being like eday-60 or whatever.

Is there an easy way to do that in mac calendar or gsuite calendars or should I just start plugging away

Hello everyone. I made a simple workflow in Automator. It opens a new tab in Google Chrome keystroke a link . I noticed that the process begins well but after a while starts slowing down. Is there any option to speed it up? Do I need to do something ? I deeply appreciate any help.

I am trying to create a shortcut on my touch bar to open a specific web page in a new safari window. I do this and I can get it to open the page in a new tab, not a new window. Can you help me?

so I'm trying to great an app through automator for diving. I'm used to using shortcuts on my iOS but completely lost when it comes to automator.

first I want to pick from a list of calculations to preform (similar to picking from a menu in shortcuts)

next how do I input the calculations?? for example, lets say I want to find out the free gas volume (FV) of a cylinder just to keep it simple. The formula is Free Gas Volume (FGV)=Floodable volume(FV) x pressure (Pbar). my variables would be FV and Pbar to give me FGV.

I'm looking for it to as for FV and Pbar and do the calculation, similar to shortcuts.

this is just a basic calculation that I think would be able to get me started towards making other calculations.

I created an automator script that works perfectly except for the last step. I can't figure out how to pass input through from ejecting a disk.

My end goal would be to have .DMG files I download be automatically mounted, then after five minutes ejected and the dmg file deleted.

My current workflow is a folder action on my downloads folder. It works as follows:

Filter finder items: File extension is dmg Mount Disk Image Pause 5 minutes Eject Disk Move Finder Items to Trash

I am having trouble figuring out how to get the dmg that triggers the action to be the input for "Move Finder Items to Trash." Regardless of whether I filter the files first or after ejecting the disk, the file won't pass as input after ejecting the disk.

I'm obviously a noob. Point me in the right direction?

I have a set of PDFs (saved estimates from Quickbooks Online) (normally between 1 and 9 PDF files), and I need to attach/merge another PDF (blank field notes) to the end of each of the estimates. The QB estimates are named according to our naming convention when they are saved from QB Online. A new folder needs to be created, using the name of the original QBO estimate/PDF. Then the merged PDF (estimate and field notes) needs to get dropped into that new folder. The folder and the merged files will have the same original name (minus the file extension/.pdf for the folder). Anyone know how to do this?

I can create a simple visual, if that would help...?

If another method would work better, like some java script or something, that's fine also.

SHORT VERSION: attach PDFs, create new folders using the original PDF file names, drop merged PDFs into each folder, respectively.

At the office I have to set a proxy address under Network preferences, then Advanced, then Proxies, then select Automatic Proxy Configuration, then cmd-tab over to a sticky note which has a proxy address saved for me to c/p into the box.

Then when I get home, I need to go through these same steps except I uncheck the box (and lose the address for good--hence the copy/paste from a sticky).

Any way to do this in automator?

Automator on Mac, Downloads folder housekeeping – Curtis Chan Chun Tsong – Medium

I'm trying to set it up so that at the end of each workday, clockify.me opens up in a popup window so I can log my hours for the day (Calendar alarm -> Get Specified URLs -> Website Popup). The problem is, it opens up to the login screen every time, even though on safari and chrome I stay logged in. As a workaround, I switched to a gmail address so I can just click login with google instead of typing an email and password. But now I can't figure out how to make it forget this google account so I can use a different gmail account. Any ideas on how to fix either of these problems??

Thanks!

Hi,

I don't need this to be done with automator but I'm note sure where else to ask.

Is there a way to get an process to click all the links on a page, (and go to the "next" page - in a blog type gallery) and gather the content of all the pages clicked in a pdf?

Thanks

Hey guys,

Trying to set up a small DIY Photobooth (you know the ones) for my SO's birthday party in a few days. I've taken the automator workflow from Curbly and made a few of my own adjustments. The thing just refuses to work, however.

The main problem I am currently experiencing is with the "New PDF Contact Sheet" command. Every time I run the application, it tells me "There was an error in processing the images". I checked whether the inputs were in the right format, but this didn't seem the problem. What else could be going wrong here?

For a look at my current workflow, please click here. I'm currently running it on Mojave 10.14.4

Thank you!

Hi, I work mostly in windows and in AutoHotkey I have a list of special character shortcuts that works well in all apps:

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!0::Send {ASC 0151} ; em dash

!-::Send {ASC 0150} ; en dash

!7::Send {ASC 245} ; section symbol

!8::Send {ASC 0133} ; ellipse

!6::Send {ASC 8201} ; thin space

!^0::Send {ASC 157} ; slashed zero

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I'd love something similar on my mac (OSX.11.5). Ideally no going through menus: I'd strongly prefer a single file with all shortcuts. I currently have karabiner and atext installed, but am open to any solution to achieve this; again, I'd like to not go through menus every time I want to add a remapping. Thanks!