AUTOMATOR RULES!! (Use "Jock" voice here!)

[snowdog]

I enjoy reading comics, but it's a pain in the bu** to visit 30 pages on 5 different sites each day just for this.
So I made a workflow in Automator.
It takes the url and downloads any images from those pages.
Keeps the largest ones, creates a new folder in iPhoto and imports the pictures.
Leaves me with nice and easy reading.

 

[acedickson]

I enjoy reading comics, but it's a pain in the bu** to visit 30 pages on 5 different sites each day just for this.
So I made a workflow in Automator.
It takes the url and downloads any images from those pages.
Keeps the largest ones, creates a new folder in iPhoto and imports the pictures.
Leaves me with nice and easy reading.

I can't get the 'get URL' actions to work. Can you list the exact workflow for me?

 

[snowdog]

I can't get the 'get URL' actions to work. Can you list the exact workflow for me?

Sure, but it might be a bit difficult. I'm running the Swedish version of Mac OS X, so all the steps in Automator are in Swedish.
So I'm very sorry if the english translation is not the same as you have

Here goes,
First, select Safari and then "Get selected URL".
Add the url to the specified page that contains the picture that you want to download. For example "http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/index.html" for the latest strip of Dilbert.
As the next step, pick "Get URL for pictures from webpage".
And in the drop down menu, select "Get picture-url from these webpages".
Next step choose "Filter URL's".
Select those that has a name beginning with dilbert.
Next step choos "Get selected webpages".
Choose a folder where they are downloaded.
And as a final step, "Import pictures to iPhoto"
Choose "Add to" "New album" and pick a name.
If the album doesn't exists it will be created.
You might also want to check the box for "Erase sourcefiles when imported".
So that the temporary folder is emptied.

If you want the workflow you can download it here
http://snowdog.se/page11/page12/files/Dilbert.zip
I'm not sure if it will work in the english version, it might.

One more thing, there is a bug in Automator which make working with iPhoto-workflows extremely slow. It happens when editing. Not when you are running the script.

 

[wrxguy]

Also, how do I make a Workflow act like an app? If I make a workflow and save it to the desktop, I want to be able to double-click it and have it execute without it opening up the Automator app. I want the workflow to act on its own without executing the application itself, sorta like it has been compiled and run. Right now its like I have to open XCode and running an app I wrote in there each time I want to use it. What's the point?

when you go to "save as" there is a little drop down menu that says "automater workflow" or something like that and when you click the drop down menu you can save it as an application then you dont have to reopen automater, it just runs the little app! (I had the same prob )

 

[wrxguy]

ID3 Tag editor

does anyone know how or IF automater can setup a workflow that changes the ID3 Tags of MP3's...not just in iTunes but in general? So just incase i had to re-import my library or something like that i could do it w/o losing all of the iTunes info for the songs?