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<blockquote data-quote="nabl" data-source="post: 979747" data-attributes="member: 43512">Yeah, that's quite simple. I've used the command-line program curl in my script, but you could just as easily tell Safari to download the file (though you'd then have to wait for Safari to launch).[code]set imageURL to &quot;http://www.google.com/images/srpr/logo1w.png&quot;set folderTarget to the POSIX path of the (path to the desktop)set newImageName to &quot;newimagename.png&quot;display dialog (folderTarget as string) &amp; newImageNamedo shell script &quot;curl &quot; &amp; imageURL &amp; &quot; -o &quot; &amp; folderTarget &amp; newImageName[/code]I've used the Google logo and am saving it to a file called newimagename.png on the desktop. However, there are a few problems with my script. First, you have to put the URL into the script itself, and you also have to specify the filename (and filetype) for it to work. Basically, it's not much more efficient than going to the website and saving the image manually.If you give a more specific account of what exactly you want to automate, I could help you work toward a much better AppleScript.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="nabl, post: 979747, member: 43512"] Yeah, that's quite simple. I've used the command-line program [font="Lucida Console"]curl[/font] in my script, but you could just as easily tell Safari to download the file (though you'd then have to wait for Safari to launch). [code]set imageURL to "http://www.google.com/images/srpr/logo1w.png" set folderTarget to the POSIX path of the (path to the desktop) set newImageName to "newimagename.png" display dialog (folderTarget as string) & newImageName do shell script "curl " & imageURL & " -o " & folderTarget & newImageName[/code] I've used the Google logo and am saving it to a file called newimagename.png on the desktop. However, there are a few problems with my script. First, you have to put the URL into the script itself, and you also have to specify the filename (and filetype) for it to work. Basically, it's not much more efficient than going to the website and saving the image manually. If you give a more specific account of what exactly you want to automate, I could help you work toward a much better AppleScript. [/QUOTE]

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