Copy box link from applescript or bash script?

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badamski

• July 20, 2018 09:54

Some context: I used to use this workflow with dropbox, until dropbox got rid of public folders and broke this process.

http://destroytoday.com/writings/gif-workflow/

 

I've been trying to get it working with box and here's what I'm trying to accomplish. I have everything I need except in dropbox i was able to get the `basename`, the filename, and the url was always `https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/`++>` but box is `https://acorio.box.com/s/`+>`

https://cl.ly/t5e4

all I want is to be able to in a script, copy that box link value. Does anyone have any idea how to?  I've been researching it for a while to no avail.

 

This is what I had working for dropbox in a .sh

 

dropbox_url="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u//"
echo ${dropbox_url}{query}

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  chaosworks

  • March 27, 2019 12:01

  I would love to know this also as then I can use Hammerspoon to copy the link to the pasteboard for sending in chat. Even better would be a Screenshots directory and support in Box. This is as far as I've gotten. Might be possible to call into AppleScript to do some context menu clicking but ugh.

   

  boxPath = os.getenv("HOME") .. "/Box"
  if hs.fs.displayName(boxPath) ~= nil then
    boxScreenshotsPath = boxPath .. "/Screenshots"
    if hs.fs.displayName(boxScreenshotsPath) == nil then
      os.execute("mkdir " .. boxScreenshotsPath)
    end
    hs.execute("defaults write com.apple.screencapture location " .. boxScreenshotsPath)
    function openScreenshots(files)
      hs.execute("open " .. boxScreenshotsPath)
    end
    hs.pathwatcher.new(boxScreenshotsPath, openScreenshots):start()
  end

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