[voodoosand]

Would this be something I could make easily in Applescript? (I can only make the most beginner "hello world" programs) - I work for a newspaper and we have a movie ratings scorecard, with empty, half and whole moon shapes to denote how a given film was reviewed. Since we get all of this info from metacritic.com, and have a 0-40, 41-79, and 80-100 scale, would it be that hard to make an Applescript to take the numbers from metacritic.com and spit out certain letters or symbols?

[Diggory Laycock]

Hi,

Here's a fragile script that should work if the page design doesn't change at all...

All it does is get the score in the front window of safari - but it could be extended very easily... I'm just not sure how you put your paper together.

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on run
-- Get the source of the Page.
tell application "Safari"
set the reviewSource to the source of the front document
-- Get the meta-tag - this is very fragile and could easily break with a small change to the site
set metaTagSource to the fifth paragraph of reviewSource as text
end tell


-- Search for the metaScore part of the tag
set savedTextItemDelimiters to AppleScript's text item delimiters
try
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {"METASCORE="}
set brokenUpTagParts to text items of metaTagSource
set scoreBitWithTrailingData to second item of brokenUpTagParts

-- refine
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {"."}
set metaScore to first item of text items of scoreBitWithTrailingData

--reset the text item delimiters:
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to savedTextItemDelimiters
on error m number n from f to t partial result p
--also reset text item delimiters in case of an error:
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to savedTextItemDelimiters
--and resignal the error:
-- error number n from f to t partial result p
display dialog "Could not find the score. - are you sure the front window is a metascore review?" buttons {"OK"} default button 1
return
end try

display dialog "MetaScore: " & metaScore buttons {"OK"} default button 1

end run


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