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About AppleScript Support

James edited this page Aug 18, 2015 · 2 revisions

Starting in 2.2.7, MAL Updater OS X now have AppleScript scripting support. In short, it's possible to use currently playing information with other applications like IRC clients, twitter clients, and other third party applications.

MAL Updater OS X has three Applescript commands you can use. Here is all of these commands from the AppleScript scripting dictionary for MAL Updater OS X.

MAL Updater OS X Suite

getstatusv : Returns the currently playing status information.

getstatus

→ text : Currently playing information in JSON. If there is nothing playing, it will return a blank array.

Example:

{"id":"28999","scrobbledactualtitle":"Charlotte","source":"mplayer","scrobbledtitle":"Charlotte","scrobbledEpisode":"07"}

scrobblenowv : Tells MAL Updater OS X to perform an on demand scrobble.

toggleautoscrobblev : Tells MAL Updater OS X to toggle the auto scrobble state.