Do you use Appscript?

DEVONthink Automation
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Do you use Appscript? It’s a Python-AppleScript bridge. I use it on my Power Mac and I think it’s great. You’ll find it here: freespace.virgin.net/hamish.sand … cript.html

It obviously only works with scriptables apps. I’m curious to know if some of you use Appscript with DN Pro. Appscript is universal binary and it’s free.

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Nope (not yet anyway), made my first appscript script day before yesterday :smiley:

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wow. appscript is great!
i just started to build a script that will import my thunderbird emails to devonthink pro:

#!/usr/bin/env python
# encoding: utf-8

import sys
import os
import mailbox
from appscript import *

src_mbox = mailbox.mbox("/pathtomboxfile/mboxfile")
for msg in src_mbox:
	subj = msg.get('subject')
	body = msg.get_payload(decode=True)
	app(u'/Applications/DEVONthink Pro.app').create_record_with({k.plain_text: body, k.type: k.txt, k.name: subj})

that was easy. it imports all plaintext emails that don’t have attachments. but i think the hard part is to find the right email-message encoding and handle attachments… if anybody has a hint on how to do this - i am just a computer amateur…
(work with an empty dt-database and a copy of your mbox file if you try the script above)

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Hmm, neat. I have very little knowledge of Python, but I do frequently have a need for regexps. I’ll probably branch out and find it to be very useful. Thanks :slight_smile: