Comments on: Get compressor to upload to ftp once finished

By: ross

ross — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 19:32:38 +0000

Hey Mat! This isn’t that different, except that I’ve never had good luck with ftp as a destination working consistently. One other benefit is that it allows you to perform multiple actions through scripting.

By: Mat

Mat — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 21:33:35 +0000

How is this different from using your FTP site as a destination in Compressor?

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:51:00 +0000

HI, it feels crazy that this has just come up for me and a quick whip round google and it’s here!
i am trying to automate this function at the moment. Would really appreciate some help though – am using cyberduck and and the office won’t shell out the measly 30 bucks for fetch. Also never written an applescript before but would love to make my life that bit easier. Is there any chance you still have that original script for cyberduck? i understand the concerns over security – but this is purely for uploading episodes to blip.tv and not my work server so i’m less concerned. tried editing the original script from Proactive Interactive with no success so any/all help would really be appreciated.
cheers in advance,
Pete

By: ross

ross — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:42:13 +0000

The problem with using cyberduck was that there wasn’t an easy way to make a bookmark, so I had to bake the login and password into the script. That makes for a sticky situation. But if you want to use cyberduck don’t let me stop you, maybe you can figure it out where I couldn’t!

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:24:31 +0000

I guess I’ll stick with Fetch then, the interface is much improved from when I last used it.

By: ross

ross — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:19:30 +0000

weird you should do that – I wrote this first for cyberduck!
I’ll see if I can find the old code. It wasn’t excruciating, but it wasn’t nearly as easy as with fetch.

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:31:07 +0000

Thanks Ross! I got it to work, I also wasn’t saving the applescript as an app.

Now I’m trying to adapt it for use with Cyberduck instead of Fetch.

Thanks again

By: ross

ross — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:32:03 +0000

Hey scott,
The answer is weird, but the quotes used on wordpress aren’t the same as in applescript! look above the quoted code and I updated the post to a link you can use.

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:34:09 +0000

I pasted in the code, tried to compile and run and it said

Syntax Error
Expected expression but found unknown token.

Thanks for your help Ross!

By: ross

ross — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:05:59 +0000

Hi Scott.
Your code looks good, so I don’t know where things are going wrong. What kind of errors are you getting? Does it do anything? Does the fetch shortcut work by itself? You also don’t need both a droplet and the shortcut if you are running the applescript. You only need the shortcut for that. I would double check to make sure that the shortcut_name is the shortcut name, not the droplet name.

Also, try trimming it down and see if you can get it to work in parts. i.e. try pasting this into script editor and running it. (i’m not sure if it will compile as-is, you might need to tweak it)

set shortcut_name to “REMOVEDMYSITE”
with timeout of 60000 seconds
try
tell application “Fetch”
activate
open shortcut shortcut_name
end tell
end try

That script should open up the shortcut in fetch and then do nothing. If that works, then try checking the other parts. Let me know what you find!