I've tried doing this, but when I press Enter, the QS window disappears and nothing happens. I used the script you posted and put it in ~/Library/Application Support/Quicksilver/Actions. Any idea what could be going wrong?
On Thursday, September 27, 2012 at 4:42:02 PM UTC+1, Jon Stovell wrote: > > If your objective is simply to have an action to shorten URLs in QS, > Dennis, it might be simpler to create one using AppleScript and save it > in ~/Library/Application Support/Quicksilver/Actions. I have the following > code saved there as Shorten URL.scpt. I just get any URL into the first > pane and select Shorten URL as the action in the second pane. The resulting > short URL then appears in QS's first pane so that I can do other things > with it. > > *using terms from* *application* "Quicksilver" > > *on* *process text* theURL > > *set* shortURL *to* *do shell script* "curl -s > https://www.googleapis.com/urlshortener/v1/url -H 'Content-Type: > application/json' -d \"{\\\"longUrl\\\": \\\"" & theURL & "\\\"}\" | awk > '/\"id\":/{print substr($2, 2, length($2)-3)}'" > > *return* shortURL > > *end* *process text* > > *end* *using terms from* > > On Thursday, September 27, 2012 11:21:14 AM UTC-4, Dennis wrote: >> >> Thanks, that worked - I used NSStringPboardType from the picture (not >> NSFilenamesPBoardType in your text) and QS shows the service as a text >> action. When it runs, I get no error, but the result doesn't display or >> show up on the clipboard. I think Terpstra developed this for LaunchBar, >> so maybe the interaction is a bit different. Do you have a suggestion for >> how to get the results to the clipboard? Here's the service, if it's >> helpful https://www.dropbox.com/sh/2ofsrjba1fj15km/1HFNCnA6NT. THANKS > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Quicksilver" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/blacktree-quicksilver. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
