The Daily WTF Submit Automator Service

Wayne — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 17:15:41 +0000

I thought a Mac OS X Automator Service would cover pretty much all bases on Mac, so here it is.

The Automator service is callable from (almost*) any app that lets you select text :)

*some non Cocoa apps (e.g. Java) such as IntelliJ do not support Services.

To install: Unzip the download into your ~/Library/Services folder.

To use:

Select some text in and app.
Goto the 'Services' menu - this depends on the app, either right click the selected text, or goto the Apple in the menu
Once in the Services Menu navigate to select Service -> SubmitWTF
Follow the on-screen prompts

Some minus points:

Java apps do not tend to support Services at all
The Service UI is a series of single field dialog boxes - if anyone knows how to create single page input form in Automator please let me know.
It is always set to publish - easily fixed, but with /another/ dialog box

Note that Firefox does not support 'Service' in the page context menu so the 'Services' are accessed from the main menu

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