Automator Safari Workflow...

[TheAnswer]

...I recently started just putting my computer to sleep instead of shutting down everyday. So now I am working on a "wakeup" workflow that will have all my first thing in the morning actions ready with one click. So it will open Mail, iCal, and Safari...now I want it to open a bunch (roughly 20) of websites, I can get it to do this in separate windows, but is there any way to get them to open up in separate tabs instead?

 

[Unorthodox]

I'm not sure how to do that using an Automator action. But I can do it with AppleScript.

Drag the "Run AppleScript" action (from the category "Automator"), and place this text in the AppleScript box...

on run {input, parameters}
	tell application "Safari"
		activate
		open location "http://www.apple.com/"
		open location "http://www.macbytes.com/"
		open location "http://osx.iusethis.com/"
	end tell
	return input
end run

Add or remove and "open locations" as needed"

So, it should look like this:

 

[superbovine]

There is two ways to do this.


easy way:
put all 20 links a folder under your bookmarks in safari.
If you use you bookmark bar right-click or control click the folder of bookmarks in your bookmark bar and select open in tabs.

safari will open up all the tabs

hard way:
write your own automator action to open up a bookmark folder in safari.

 

[killercatfish]

Hello!

I tried this as a service in automator and set a keyboard shortcut. Nothing happens. any ideas? I am trying to open up a webpage on my mac from the iPad...

I tried using this script with telekinesis, but for some reason it is not working. the only time the script works is when I open the script to edit, if I hit run, I get a null error.. error "" number -1721

Any idea?

Thanks!