Automatically Running a Script After a Web Page Loaded

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If I’m not wrong, there’s no way to run a script automatically after a page loaded in DEVONthink Pro or DEVONagent Pro web browsers.

So I request this feature and…

Applescript is good but can we run Javascript directly without Applescript’s “do Javascript”?

Why I need this?

I browse hundreds of web sites everyday for reading and many of them are not designed for reading. It’s a real pain.

If we could run JS automatically after page loading, I could strip down and rearrange any web page’s DOM structure to my taste.

I can do this right now but I have to use a shortcut assigned to my Applescript. When I go through tens of web pages quickly, pressing shortcut keys every time is not effective and it’s quite repetitive.

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An easier and quick approach could be this:

A setting in preferences to tell DT Pro or DA pro to launch URLs in default browser automatically when it’s double clicked. So we can do our Javascript in default browser.

3

Wouldn’t it be easier to use a custom style sheet (see Preferences > Web) instead? Or isn’t that sufficient?

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I tried it first, not sufficient.

I don’t want to use same stylesheet for every web site. Some web sites are really a mess, some web sites are fine and sometimes, I need to extract information from mess without my eyes hurt :slight_smile: So…

If I could run javascript codes automatically after a web page loaded, I could do many things.

Currently I can run javascript inside an Applescript, trigger it using hot keys but…

  1. It’s not a joy to code javascript inside Applescript because I don’t have any editor that highlighting JS syntax written in Applescript. I have to code JS first, than copy the JS and paste it into AS, save the file again. If I need to change JS, i have to go the process all over again.

  2. If JS would run automatically, I wouldn’t need to press any keys.

Thanks for the suggestion though :slight_smile:

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Oh and…

I need DOM manipulation sometimes. It’s not only using stylesheets.

PS: I use DEVONthink Pro and DEVONagent Pro consistently during my work day. I really need running some JS code after a page is loaded.

Thanks again.

6

Have you looked into Fake (fakeapp.com)? Fake is built to do what you want.

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Thanks korm :slight_smile:

Fake is a very good app I think. In fact, I use their other app Fluid extensively and I really love it. ( http://fluidapp.com/ ) Fluid’s scripting capabilities are fine, all i need with Fluid is syntax highlighting :slight_smile:

But…

I need to run JS in DEVON’s internet browser after a web page is loaded. Since we cannot do it…

I’ve an idea today :slight_smile:

If I find a way to get all the links related to a search from DEVONagent Pro using Applescript, I’ll pass them to Safari and create an extension to browse them like we do in DEVONagent’s browser.

I already develop an extension for Safari to automatically manipulate web page DOM to my taste.