achinoam01: AppleScript to open a collection of Safari tabs

Monday, May 2, 2011

AppleScript to open a collection of Safari tabs

Here's a simple AppleScript that replaces the current Safari window with a collection of tabs, each open to a different URL. I've seen several scripts that attempt to do something similar, but this one improves on them in a couple of ways:

It closes all of the old tabs, rather than just adding new ones.
It opens the new tabs directly in AppleScript, which is much faster than using system events.

The URLs in the script are just an example; obviously you'll want to replace them with others.

 tell application "Safari"   activate   -- close all but one tab of the front window   try     repeat       close tab 2 of window 1     end repeat   end try   -- open the URLs in separate tabs   tell window 1     set URL of tab 1 to "http://weather.yahoo.com/forecast/USMD0100.html"     ma ...