ranchero.com: NetNewsWire-Scripts

Using Readability with NetNewsWire

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:31:25 -0700

Rob J Wells: “Most of my heavy reading takes place in NetNewsWire, so I’ve coupled up Arc90’s Readability bookmarklet with the application.”

NetNewsWire script: Subscribe to full-text feed of current subscription

Fri, 20 Feb 2009 20:16:35 -0800

bylr.net: “Here’s a script that attempts to subscribe to a full-text feed of the current subscription in NetNewsWire. It does this using EchoDittoLabs’ excellent FullTextRSS service.”

NNWInstaPost - two great tastes

Sat, 03 Jan 2009 13:05:49 -0800

protagonist: “NNWInstaPost makes NetNewsWire and Instapaper play nice together. Think of it like the peanut butter and jelly script.”

Very cool! (We are, by the way, planning to add a send-to-Instapaper command for both Mac and iPhone versions of NetNewsWire. But the thing I love about scripting is that you don’t have to wait for us to do it.)

Display iTunes Podcasts In NetNewsWire

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:35:17 -0700

Onlinenerd24: “I have several podcasts subscribed in iTunes. I use NetNewsWire as a local RSS feed reader. This morning I thought it would be nice to have new podcast episodes displayed in my feed reader as soon as they are downloaded.”

NetNewsWire to Del.icio.us with ‘toread’ tag

Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:45:14 -0700

FutureMac: “I’ve modified existing NetNewsWire to Del.icio.us Applescripts to save the currently-selected news item to Del.icio.us with the tag ‘toread.’ You can easily change this tag to whatever tag you use to mark items you wish to read later on.”

Play NetNewsWire Video/Audio Enclosures in QuickTime Player

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:59:47 -0800

Stefan Seiz: “For your Enjoyment, here’s a little AppleScript which plays the Enclosure (type Video/QuickTime or Audio/Mpeg) of the current selection in QuickTime Player. If you’re like me and don’t automaticaly download enclosures, this helps you save the hassle of Copying the URL and pasting it into QT Player or such.”

Post to instapaper (AppleScript)

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 14:13:57 -0800

Bruce Walker: “Here’s a little script to post the currently selected headline in NetNewsWire to your ‘instapaper’ account.”

NetNewsWire to Tumblr

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:08:20 -0800

macosxhints.com: “Here’s an Applescript that sends the currently selected headline from NetNewsWire 3.1.1 to Tumblr.”

Archive Flagged Items from NetNewsWire into Yojimbo

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 19:04:35 -0800

justinwr: “This lil Ruby-OSA script will allow you to import your ‘Flagged Items’ in NetNewsWire as Web Archive Items in Yojimbo. Thus allowing you to save RSS articles for off-line viewing/storage.”

Safari/NetNewsWire workflow

Tue, 28 Aug 2007 15:17:51 -0700

Richard Keen: “The script takes the front-most Safari URL (the current tab or window), adds this to NetNewsWire (it will be started in the background if not running) and confirms this via a Growl notification if you have Growl installed.”

Mail Headline script for NetNewsWire

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 19:36:46 -0700

raoli.com: “Mail Headline is a plain-text replacement for the Mail Contents of this News Item command that’s capable of supporting multiple email clients. The contents of the news item are processed with Aaron Swartz’ html2text and converted to Markdown-formatted text. The currently supported email clients include Mailsmith, Entourage, and Mail (if you prefer plain text over rich text for emails).”

Adding Yahoo! Saving Tools to NetNewsWire

Thu, 01 Feb 2007 16:33:18 -0800

Micah Laaker: “Now, when I find an RSS feed item or browse to a page that I want to save to one of these services, I can simply select my script in the NetNewsWire script menu.”

Two scripts: one for adding to MyWeb, one for Bookmarks 2.0.

Scripts for Yojimbo, del.icio.us and NetNewsWire integration

Thu, 21 Dec 2006 10:45:20 -0800

Hawk Wings: “On the Yojimbo mailing list, Dylan Damian shared two applescripts that help to integrate the new tagging feature of Yojimbo 1.3 with del.icio.us and NetNewsWire.”

Build a Blogroll with NetNewsWire and AppleScript

Thu, 09 Nov 2006 16:18:44 -0800

mere cat: “I’ve been using this thing for a while to build my blogroll and thought I’d share. An AppleScript reads your feeds in NNW and creates an unordered list for each group of feeds (if any), nesting them as required.”

Extract Microformats Script For NNW

Sat, 15 Jul 2006 10:44:47 -0700

ChunkySoup.net: “I’m pleased to announce the release of my latest little hack for adding microformats support to NetNewsWire (not lite)—Extract Microformats v0.5.”

NetNewsWire + XFN

Tue, 11 Jul 2006 09:46:10 -0700

Peter Rukavina: “Because NetNewsWire lacks any mechanism for storing XFN information itself, I crafted an AppleScript-based solution that stores my relationship to each feed’s author in a SQLite database. You can download my Define XFN Relationship script and try it for yourself.”

ReadItYourself! 1.0.2

Wed, 03 May 2006 15:46:47 -0700

filipp: “ReadItYourself! is a simple AppleScript for NetNewsWire (tested with 2.1b33) that exports the unread headlines of a selected subscription to your iPod.”

Quick Links AppleScript

Tue, 21 Mar 2006 10:16:35 -0800

Andy Fragen and Steve Kirks wrote an AppleScript script for making “Quick Links” text from NetNewsWire.

Lifehack Scripting

Sat, 18 Mar 2006 15:33:21 -0800

Fraser Speirs: “Also, a couple of scripts there for taking the front tab in Safari or the selected headline in NetNewsWire, archiving and flagging it in Yojimbo. Nice for when you hit an item you want to read in-depth but not immediately, or you’re trying to rapidly accumulate research material on a particular topic.”

NetNewsFlix

Wed, 15 Mar 2006 21:15:16 -0800

Red Sweater Blog: “NetNewsWire, RSS, and AppleScript to the rescue! Since Netflix is hip enough to provide several RSS feeds for its savvy customers, I just grabbed my friend’s Netflix queue RSS feed, and subscribed with NetNewsWire. Then, after selecting the subscription, I typed the following into Script Editor:”