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› April 10, 2003

View Browser Source Applescripts

  • Reported by Nate

Got a mac? Not happy with the way your browser spits out HTML when you "view source"? Perhaps your browser doesn't yet color code the source. Perhaps your browser does funny things with the font size or intendation. Perhaps you simply want the convienence of having the view-source spit out into an editable document.
Dan over at Webgraph has a solution for you. Actually Dan's scripts have been around for a little while, inspired by a Zeldman post, he created these applescripts which can take the HTML out of a number of different browsers, open up your prefered text editor, and pre-populate a new document with the source HTML to which ever webpage you were just viewing.
The applescripts do this all automagically, but you can take it a step further by associating the script with a key command (I've done this using launchbar). Anyways, this post is to inform folks who haven't already heard of it, and also to let you know that the scripts have been updated today.
View Browser Source (AppleScripts).

Supported Browsers:

  • Camino 0.7
  • Chimera 0.6
  • IE 5.2.2
  • Mozilla 1.0.1
  • Netscape 7
  • Opera 6
  • Safari 1.0b

Supported Editors:

  • BBEdit
  • emacs
  • PageSpinner
  • pico
  • TextEdit
  • vi

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