Fetch Softworks

AppleScript (4 posts)

• Started 21 years ago by Bill
• Latest reply 21 years ago from Jim Matthews

• Bill Member

  I want to setup an AppleScript to use Fetch to automatically download log files from my website once a day. Could someone point me in the direction of an existing script that I can modify for this purpose.

  Thanks, Bill

  Posted 21 years ago #

• Jim Matthews Administrator

  The actual download can be done with one statement:

  copy url "ftp://userid :password@host/path/filename" to beginning of alias "My Hard Disk:my folder:"

  To have the statement run once a day you'd want to use something like iDo Script Scheduler, from http://www.powerkey.com .

  Thanks,

  Jim Matthews
  Fetch Softworks

  [This message has been edited by JimMatthews (edited 11-12-2002).]

  Posted 21 years ago #

• davidmorr Member

  Originally posted by JimMatthews:

  The actual download can be done with one statement:

  copy url "ftp://userid :password@host/path/filename" to beginning of alias "My Hard Disk:my folder:"

  This is a useful quick technique for downloading a file, much easier than wading through the "official" sequence of actions for AppleScript.

  It would be really helpful if the sample scripts that come with Fetch were to include a few more complex examples on which we could base our own scripting of Fetch. Examples are almost always the best way to learn Applescript, I have found.

  BTW, there is no entry in Fetch's dictionary for the word "copy"...

  Regards

  David

  Posted 21 years ago #

• Jim Matthews Administrator

  Thanks for the feedback; I will try to produce more examples.

  "copy" is a synonym for "duplicate", which is in the dictionary. Sorry about that.

  Thanks,

  Jim Matthews
  Fetch Softworks

  Posted 21 years ago #