jasonrwang/TUDelft_Safari_proxy_URL.scpt

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    University Journal Remote Access via Proxy Script for Safari on macOS

How-To

Save this little guy wherever, and then use it whenever you're browsing for some journals.
For example, if I save this to ~/Scripts, then to access

The URL: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/341/6151/1235367
(Hsiang, S. M., Burke, M., & Miguel, E. (2013). Quantifying the Influence of Climate on Human Conflict. Science, 341(6151), 1235367–1235367. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1235367)

Then type osascript ~/Scripts/TUDelft_Safari_proxy_URL.scpt in Terminal, hit ENTER on your keyboard, and the script will take care of the rest :) The Terminal window needs to be in the same desktop (i.e. Spaces window) as Safari to work properly.
Other


This script simply uses the .tudelft.idm.oclc.org proxy, so it of course requires that you have a TU Delft NetID with an active library subscription to work! See more here: https://www.jrwang.ca/2016/06/12/connectivity-tricks-for-students/
This proxy doesn't work for Nature, ScienceDirect (Elsevier), and some other publications for some reason, so you might have to resort to the VPN.
Obviously, you can change the proxy domain in line 17 to another, like .login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca for the University of Alberta's service, which happens to work instead of the VPN.
This has only been tested on macOS 10.14 Mojave. Your mileage may vary.


## TUDelft_Safari_proxy_URL.scpt
tell application "Safari"
	set currentTab to current tab of front window
	set currentURL to currentTab's URL

	# Extract the domain
	set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {"/"}
	set urlParts to (every text item in currentURL) as list
	set originalDomain to item 3 of urlParts

	# Change "." to "-"
	set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {"."}
	set domainParts to (every text item in originalDomain) as list
	set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {"-"}
	set amendedDomain to domainParts as text

	# Add the TU Delft proxy
	set amendedDomain to amendedDomain & ".tudelft.idm.oclc.org"
	set item 3 of urlParts to amendedDomain
	set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {"/"}
	set amendedURL to urlParts as text

	# Re-open the page with the new file
	tell currentTab
		set URL to amendedURL
	end tell
end tell
	tell application "Safari"
	set currentTab to current tab of front window
	set currentURL to currentTab's URL

	# Extract the domain
	set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {"/"}
	set urlParts to (every text item in currentURL) as list
	set originalDomain to item 3 of urlParts

	# Change "." to "-"
	set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {"."}
	set domainParts to (every text item in originalDomain) as list
	set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {"-"}
	set amendedDomain to domainParts as text

	# Add the TU Delft proxy
	set amendedDomain to amendedDomain & ".tudelft.idm.oclc.org"
	set item 3 of urlParts to amendedDomain
	set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {"/"}
	set amendedURL to urlParts as text

	# Re-open the page with the new file
	tell currentTab
	set URL to amendedURL
	end tell
	end tell