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About appscript

Appscript is a high-level, user-friendly Apple event bridge that allows you to control AppleScriptable Mac OS X applications from Python.

Requirements

Appscript supports Python 3.7 and later.

Appscript requires macOS 10.9 or later.

Installation

To download and install appscript from PyPI using pip, run:

pip3 install appscript

To install appscript from the downloaded source files, cd to the appscript-1.1.0 directory and run:

python3 setup.py install

Building appscript from source requires Apple's Xcode IDE (available from the App Store) or Command Line Tools for Xcode (available from <https://developer.apple.com/download/more/>).

Notes

  • Python 3.x documentation and sample scripts can be found in the doc and sample directories.

  • Developer tools for exporting application dictionaries (ASDictionary) and converting application commands from AppleScript to appscript syntax (ASTranslate) are available separately:

    http://appscript.sourceforge.net/tools.html

    ASDictionary 0.13.2 or later is also required to use appscript's built-in help() method. If ASDictionary isn't installed, interactive help won't be available but appscript will continue to operate as normal.

Copyright

Appscript is released into the public domain, except for portions of ae.c, which is Copyright (C) the original authors; see code for details.