Comments on: Custom refresh of NetNewsWire with AppleScript

By: teodora

teodora — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 14:53:44 +0000

just two more quesitons: the refresh setting stays even if I quit the refresher app process, right? and how can someone set it all back to default?

By: teodora

teodora — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 14:43:36 +0000

hi, sorry for being late, I just found and tried it and it works great!! many thanks!

(a minor thing: it would be great to choose more than one feed at once (with the cmd button) to set)

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By: Jason Grier

Jason Grier — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:33:40 +0000

Wait wait wait… I’m sorry but I am just really confused….

If I want to just refresh the feeds every 5 minutes or so, what do I need to do? It seems there are 4 ways to do it, and I’m not sure what one I’m supposed to use! I want to refresh feeds for Black Friday feeds. So I just want to refresh 5 minutes so I stay updated.

Thanks!

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By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:27:03 +0000

LOL. Color me stupid, or at least caffeine-deprived, this afternoon. Why I failed to look in the Preferences folder is beyond me.

Okay, I have a binary plist editor, and yes, as suspected there’s an item in there called autoRefresh, but the key values are simply single digit numbers representing the selected refresh rate from the preference’s pulldown menu (ie., manual = 0, 30 minutes = 1, etc).

So, no simple hack there. As you say, AppleScript is easier for now. ;-)

By: zedr0n

zedr0n — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:09:10 +0000

glad that you like it :)

the plist file is in ~/Library/Preferences/com.ranchero.NetNewsWire.plist but it’s binary and I don’t feel like reverse engineering it. Moreover, it may have a custom value for each feed, so I’m not sure where it can be held or how it is used anyway. It can also have error-checking so it would need rewriting the value dynamically. AppleScript seems an easier solution for now :)

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 21:56:39 +0000

This is cool. I’m just getting into AppleScript, and every little thing helps.

One thought on NetNewsWire, which I just started using today, is that since the refresh rate is saved as a preference within the application settings, doesn’t that mean the variable has to be written to the disk somewhere? If so, couldn’t that value just be hacked manually to 5 minutes, which seems a better idea than running another background process to refresh.

I thought it might be a plist value, but I didn’t see anything in ~Library/ApplicationSupport/NetNewsWire or any of it’s subfolders. Nothing within the NetNewsWire.app pacakge either. Gonna dig around some more, but in the meanwhile, your script will work nicely. Thanks.

By: zedr0n

zedr0n — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:43:00 +0000

ok, first beta out. Judging by the amount of problems with automator solution, I think I’ll remove it.

By: zedr0n

zedr0n — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 10:50:42 +0000

Teodora, out of top my head I think this will require adding a gui. Because NetNewsWire doesn’t provide custom refresh schedule through applescript so I can’t simply use the values in hours and treat them as minutes, as I supposed to.

I’ll think about it, try out a few things, maybe it’ll work out