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John
John

Reputation: 496

Applescript repeat command for each item in list. Each line added to command as variable

I have a list of movie titles stored in a variable movie_titles in AppleScript.

{"Beautiful Girl 2014
The Aerialist 2020
Yvonne Orji Momma I Made It 2020
Dead Stop 2011
"}

I need to run a command for each title in that list. Open a URL where each title of the list movie_titles is a part of that url. The result being a tab for each item in the list opened in my default browser.

repeat with i in movie_titles
    do shell script "open 'http://www.imdb.com/find?ref_=nv_sr_fn&q= " & movie_titles & "&s=tt&ttype=ft'"
    
end repeat

That works for a list of one but it adds each line of a list of more than one into the URL. I realize that I need a second variable that grabs each line in succession and adds it to each repeat but I am not sure how to add this to the repeat statement.

I think I couldn't find a good example because I am not sure which search words/phrase to use. If you can provide an answer and a short explanation I would appreciate.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2125

Answers (1)

red_menace
red_menace

Reputation: 3422

You need to break up the input string at the line endings in order to create the list items. AppleScript text objects have a paragraphs element that uses return, linefeed, or return/linefeed as delimiters, so you can do something like:

set movieTitles to "Beautiful Girl 2014
The Aerialist 2020
Yvonne Orji Momma I Made It 2020
Dead Stop 2011"

repeat with anItem in paragraphs of movieTitles
   if contents of anItem is not "" then -- skip blank lines
       do shell script "open 'http://www.imdb.com/find?ref_=nv_sr_fn&q=" & anItem & "&s=tt&ttype=ft'"
    end if
end repeat

Upvotes: 1

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