Hi all,I'm new to both BBEdit and AppleScript, so please forgive my
ignorance. But let me also say that I spent the better half of my Sunday
trying to resolve this issue, which also might say something about the
documentation of BBEdit scripting (or implementation, or a bug).

I wanted to have a script that goes through all the links on a website and
downloads the pdfs linked in. (FYI, download managers did not work, as the
course websites at my university require authentication, and somehow only a
browser could manage that. I'd be glad if, say, DownThemAll would quickly do
the job in Firefox, but it cannot.)

I have the simple script below to ask for the URL, then grab the source,
then look for the right pattern. I'm sort of proud having the right grep
pattern to extract the links. Surprisingly, I could not figure out how to
use the result coming from BBEdit. The user's manual is almost completely
silent on the most complicated search-scripting issue (i.e. multi-file
search), the AppleScript Editor under Snow Leopard cannot open the
dictionaries of BBEdit or TextWrangler, but even now that Script Debugger
could, I cannot parse how I could use result of a multi-file search (a bit
of success/failure or a "search results browser" window ID). I could not use
search results browser window to do any work.

Thank you for looking into this, any help would be greatly appreciated. I am
aware of some messages from earlier this year when Jeff tried to do
something similar, but apparently exchanged three emails with himself on
this list without resolving the issue. Some clarification could benefit the
whole community.

Thanks,

Laszlo

The script:

display dialog "What is the URL of the course readings site with the PDF
links?" default answer ""
set theURL to the text returned of the result
tell application "WebKit"
set the URL of the front document to theURL
set theText to the source of front document
end tell

-- set listOFlinks to {}
tell application "BBEdit"
make new document
set text of front document to theText
set fndResults to match list window of (find
"(?<=href=\")((\\S*)(\\.pdf))|((\\S*)(harvard.edu)(\\S*))(?=\")" searching
in front document options {search mode:grep, starting at top:true, wrap
around:false, backwards:false, case sensitive:false, match words:false,
extend selection:false})
-- get properties of fndResults
-- get contents of fndResults
get text of fndResults
(*
repeat with i from 1 to count of items in fndResults
set this_item to result_file of item i of fndResults
copy this_item to end of listOFlinks
end repeat
*)
end tell

tell application "WebKit"
repeat with i from 1 to count of items in listOFlinks
set the URL of the front document to i
save document 1
end repeat
end tell

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