Fetching iTunes Store Data
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Or, quite possible the best AppleScript I have ever written.
So, I have a new iMac, and I was moving over a heap of ’legacy’ media from another machine, and some of it was DVD rips of Scrubs, Mad Men and Big Love. Now, these were mostly well tagged, but often I didn’t have all of the nice descriptions that were in iTunes.
Typing in all of this data is fairly annoying.
AppleScript, jQuery to the rescue:
tell application "iTunes"
repeat with theTrack in selection
tell theTrack
set trackNo to episode number
end tell
tell application "Safari"
set theDesc to do JavaScript "$('span.index span').filter(function() { return parseInt($(this).text(),10) == " & trackNo & "; }).closest('tr').find('.description .text').text();" in document 1
set theName to do JavaScript "$('span.index span').filter(function() { return parseInt($(this).text(),10) == " & trackNo & "; }).closest('tr').find('.name .text').text();" in document 1
end tell
tell theTrack
set description to theDesc
set name to theName
set episode ID to (my replace(show, " ", ".")) & ".S" & my zero_pad(season number, 2) & "E" & my zero_pad(episode number, 2)
end tell
end repeat
end tell
on zero_pad(value, string_length)
set tmp_string to "000000000" & (value as string)
set padded_value to characters ((length of tmp_string) - string_length + 1) thru -1 of tmp_string as string
return padded_value
end zero_pad
on replace(content, sub, repl)
set delims to AppleScript's text item delimiters
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to sub
set content to every word of content
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to repl
set content to content as text
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to delims
return content
end replace
You just need to have the relevant TV Series Season page in the frontmost window in Safari, and select all of the episodes for that season in iTunes. Then, run the script, and watch the magic.