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Scripting on OS X Using Keyboard Maestro

While the number of, and power of, native Keyboard Maestro Actions is vast, sometimes you may need to do something that Keyboard Maestro is not well suited to do. But Keyboard Maestro has anticipated, and provided for this, by providing a number of Execute Script Actions, all of these available from the Execute category in the Action List:

Execute Script Actions

For example, the Execute_an_AppleScript Action:

Note that the script can be either embedded in the Action, or in an external script file, linked using the Execute Script File choice.

The Actions for the other script languages are very similar.

:!: For more details about scripting, see the User Manual Page on Scripting

AppleScript

JavaScript

Shell

Swift

Automator

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Scripting.txt · Last modified: 2019/07/01 01:11 by peternlewis