Using applescript to open web browser and go to a site

[blackoutspy]

I've been messing around with AppleScripts and i thought it would be nice to make a script that would open a window and go to a spacific site for me, but i can't figure it out. So far all i have is:
tell application "Safari"
activate
make new window
end tell

This is extreamly poor, i understand, but i can't find the command for new window for the life of me, much less a "goto URL" command=\

[Arden]

Use the Record option.

[blackoutspy]

safari doesn't support record=\ and neither does IE

[Arden]

Oh. Then drag the little icon next to the URL to the Desktop, and tell Applescript to launch this URL file.

[blackoutspy]

what would be the code for that?

[Arden]

Um...

tell application "Finder"
  open file "XYZ"
end tell

I should think...

Just record your actions as you open the URL file.

[dlloyd]

tell application "Safari"
	activate
	do JavaScript "window.open('http://www.yahoo.com')" in document 1
end tell

This will do what you want.

Make sure you retain the http:// and the trailing slash though, otherwise you will get an error page.

[bluehz]

Here's a little script I use that runs automatically every morning before I wake up. Then when I get my mornig coffee I can just sit down and all my news pages, etc are already open. While not strictly an AppleScript, it might help you out. This is a shell script that is launched by cron at a specified time.

1. Create the text file (aake sure its TEXT not RTF) and enter the following:

#!/bin/sh

#
# functions
#
# opennew is a function to create a new Safari window
opennew () {
osascript <<EOF
tell application "Safari"
activate
make new document at beginning of documents
end tell
EOF
sleep 5
}

# open a new Safari window then loads the urls listed below into that new
window.
# note the last url in the list does NOT have a trailing fwd slash
opennew
open "http://url1" \
"http://url2" \
"http://url3" \
"http://url4"

# open another window, load more urls
opennew
open "http://url5" \
"http://url6" \
"http://url7" \
"http://url8"

2. Save the file and change permissions to executable (chmod 755 filename).

3. Setup a cron task to launch the file at a specific time, or you can run it manually