In searching for ways to batch-import from Instapaper into Evernote, I came across Daigo Tanaka's script to do just this: http://daigotanaka.org/?p=1288
The script seems to run perfectly (given the Event Log), activating Evernote and pulling the source urls, but invariably Evernote hangs and the script times out. Tanaka himself said he's no applscript expert, and I'm even less of one - does anyone know if there's something in the script that's causing the hang? Or is it simply that Evernote doesn't often play nicely with applescript?
Here's the script taken from Tanaka's website:
-- Basic settings
set myNotebook to "Instapaper"
set delayInSeconds to 1
set giveUpAfter to 30
set oldToNewOrder to true
-- Function to make sure Evernote is up
to makeSureEvernoteIsUp(giveUpAfter)
tell application "Evernote" to activate
tell application "System Events" to set processCount to the count of (processes whose name is "Evernote")
set trial to 0
repeat until processCount > 0 or trial > giveUpAfter
delay 1
tell application "System Events" to set processCount to the count of (processes whose name is "Evernote")
set trial to trial + 1
end repeat
if processCount = 0 then
return false
end if
return true
end makeSureEvernoteIsUp
-- Main
set prevDelimiter to AppleScript's text item delimiters
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {","}
log "Making sure Evernote is up..."
if makeSureEvernoteIsUp(giveUpAfter) = false then
display alert "Evernote did not start :("
error number -128
end if
tell application "AppleScript Editor" to activate
set theFile to (choose file with prompt "Select a text file containing URLs")
open for access theFile
set FileContents to paragraphs of (read theFile)
if oldToNewOrder then
set FileContents to reverse of FileContents
end if
close access theFile
-- Loop through the URLs
set i to 1
repeat with nextLine in FileContents
if length of nextLine is greater than 0 then
try
set myData to every text item of nextLine
set {theUrl} to {item 1 of myData}
log {i, theUrl}
tell application "Evernote"
set countMatches to count (find notes ("sourceURL:" & theUrl))
end tell
if countMatches = 0 then
log " Adding this article…"
tell application "Evernote"
create note from url theUrl notebook myNotebook
end tell
set trial to 0
repeat until countMatches = 1 or trial > giveUpAfter
if makeSureEvernoteIsUp(giveUpAfter) = false then
display alert "Evernote crashed? Please try running the script again."
error number -128
end if
set trial to trial + 1
delay delayInSeconds
tell application "Evernote"
set countMatches to count (find notes ("sourceURL:" & theUrl))
end tell
end repeat
if trial > giveUpAfter then
log " …error adding this artile."
else
log " …done"
end if
else
log " Already exists. Skipped."
end if
end try
end if
set i to i + 1
end repeat
-- Finishing up
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to prevDelimiter
tell application "Evernote"
synchronize
end tell
If anyone has any ideas on the script - or any other method of batch-importing from Instapaper (or any other .csv list of urls), it'd be much appreciated.
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In searching for ways to batch-import from Instapaper into Evernote, I came across Daigo Tanaka's script to do just this: http://daigotanaka.org/?p=1288
The script seems to run perfectly (given the Event Log), activating Evernote and pulling the source urls, but invariably Evernote hangs and the script times out. Tanaka himself said he's no applscript expert, and I'm even less of one - does anyone know if there's something in the script that's causing the hang? Or is it simply that Evernote doesn't often play nicely with applescript?
Here's the script taken from Tanaka's website:
If anyone has any ideas on the script - or any other method of batch-importing from Instapaper (or any other .csv list of urls), it'd be much appreciated.
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