Add AppleScript Support FOR Hazel

[dredhorse]

Hi,

would be cool to be able to control Hazel via Applescript, like turn it on off, enable / disable a rule

after that you could of course go wild like enable rule creation etc, but the above would be the most useful for me atm

[Allsop]

+1 for Applescript support.

[Mr_Noodle]

Can you provide specific cases for this? It helps to have that to determine whether the feature is worth doing and how it should be implemented.

[dredhorse]

for example:

I have a SD card where I store my developing projects and where I also work with them (mainly to cut down on constant write access of the storage due to git, compile etc.)

But I would like to run a copy job of changed files to a backup area (maybe even zip stuff up) in certain intervals, let's say every 24 hours.

As I have Keyboard Maestro I could trigger an apple script regularly to enable that specific rule on that folder.

The other reason would be to disable hazel when the battery runs low and enable it again when the laptop is charging.

[Mr_Noodle]

If you want it to run at intervals, you can use the Current time attribute for that. As for stopping, is there a reason you can't do it via the menubar icon?

[dredhorse]

concerning the starting / stopping..... CMD + H is faster than using the icon in the bartender menu bar

will look into the time stuff later.

[dredhorse]

hmm the current time attribute is quite nice for once a day, but if I want to run it every 30 minutes it is quite cumbersome.

[Mr_Noodle]

You can also use "Date last matched is not in the last X minutes" if you don't care about specifically when it fires, just how frequently.

[dredhorse]

thanks for that information... forgot about that..

[GadgetComa]

I'd like to add a +1 to this along with a use case:

I want to be able to automate the creation of new rules in Hazel. Specifically, I want to create an AppleScript that:

• Prompts that user to locate a folder within their Dropbox folder.
• Adds the selected folder to Hazel's folder list
• Imports a rule for that folder

Background: I've built a separate script that relies on Hazel. I've made it available for public use. Some people have trouble setting up the rule in Hazel, so I'd like to automate the process.

Perhaps there is already a way to do this that I've overlooked?

Regards,

- Leon