Examples

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This page contains links to various JavaScript for Automation examples, so you can learn from them. I recommend linking to Gists or GitHub source code pages.

Desktop background, dark mode, and screen inversion toggling

• Toggle Appearance, Background between "Light" ⇄ "Dark" in macOS Mojave, Catalina

• Toggle between day ⇄ night settings

Finder

• Batch File Rename

iPhoto

• Export GPS Coordinates from Album Photos to JSON file

Keynote

• Keynote Font Changer — Change the font of all text in all master slides in Keynote. (Probably the world's first JXA script written in Literate CoffeeScript).

Keyboard Maestro variables

• Finding, creating, reading and updating KM variables from JXA Javascript

Microsoft Outlook 2011

• Get reference to Outlook Message using the Message ID

Microsoft Outlook 2016

• Select next message in Outlook 2016 using Javascript

Properties which persist between script runs

• Using JSON.stringify() and JSON.parse() for persistent state

System Preferences

• [Toggling between two sound output devices] (https://gist.github.com/RobTrew/2a57cd45fae7162ddf40)

Input Methods

• FooIME — A simple input method performing ROT13 on the English output.

Miscellaneous

• YosemiteSystemFontPatcher Convenient Script — A convenient script to help patch Yosemite system font. The original script was written in Python and is a CLI script. This script provides an easy-to-use step-by-step GUI wizard to drive these command line apps.

More Examples

This section are for links to sites or repositories with many examples.

• tylergaw/js-osx-app-examples — Many example OS X applications written in JavaScript.

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