AppleScript for converting "localhost" address to your Mac's current IP address. This enables testing in VMs (they can't resolve localhost but *can* resolve the local IP). This also enables your coworkers to view pages being served from your Mac. Read more at http://pipwerks.com/2014/03/08/convert-localhost-to-your-macs-current-ip-address/

Convert "localhost" address to your Mac's current IP address

(* functions *)

-- string replace function from http://www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/sbrt/sbrt-06.html
on replace_chars(this_text, search_string, replacement_string)
    set AppleScript's text item delimiters to the search_string
    set the item_list to every text item of this_text
    set AppleScript's text item delimiters to the replacement_string
    set this_text to the item_list as string
    set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ""
    return this_text
end replace_chars

-- replaces specified domain with IP address in specified URLs
on replace_localhost(theDomain, theURL, theIP)
    set newURL to ""
    if theDomain is in theURL then
        set newURL to replace_chars(theURL, theDomain, theIP)
    else
        set newURL to "http://" & theIP & "/"
    end if
    return newURL
end replace_localhost

-- copies URL to clipboard and ensures original app remains active (frontmost)
on copy_to_clipboard(theText, currentApp)
    try
        tell application "Finder"
            set the clipboard to theText as text
            -- display alert "\"" & (the clipboard) & "\" was copied to the clipboard"
        end tell
        tell application "System Events" to set frontmost of process currentApp to true
    end try
end copy_to_clipboard




on run

    -- If user has custom hostname, let's get it
    display dialog "If you are using a custom localhost domain (via VirtualHostX or similar), please enter the domain now:" default answer "localhost"
    set domain to text returned of result

    -- empty list for placing localhost URLs
    set localhostURLs to {}

    -- placeholder for target URL
    set selectedURL to ""

    -- get name of current active app so we can switch back after getting IP address
    tell application "System Events"
        set currentApp to item 1 of (get name of processes whose frontmost is true)
    end tell


    (* 
        get the IP of localhost. try en0 first, then en1 if no result found

        originally used ifconfig with grep, like so:
        do shell script "ifconfig en0|grep \"inet \"|cut -d ' ' -f 2"

        A shorter, more concise method was described in The Macintosh Terminal Pocket Guide by Daniel J. Barrett
        do shell script "ipconfig getifaddr en0"

        This method sometimes produces an error in AppleScript. To avoid the error, add ";exit 0"
        "ipconfig getifaddr en0; exit 0"

        See this URL for an explanation
        http://lists.apple.com/archives/applescript-studio/2006/Jul/msg00141.html
    *)

    -- try en0 (if both wired and wireless are available, en0 is usually the wired connection)
    set theIP to do shell script "ipconfig getifaddr en0; exit 0"

    -- if en0 didn't work, try en1
    if theIP is equal to "" then
        set theIP to do shell script "ipconfig getifaddr en1; exit 0"
    end if

    -- if both en0 and en1 don't work, you're out of luck
    if theIP is equal to "" then
        display dialog "Sorry, your IP address couldn't be determined."
        return
    end if


    (* 
        Check Google Chrome
        Loop to find localhost (or custom domain) 
        Code adapted from http://superuser.com/questions/263198/switch-between-google-chrome-tabs-using-applescript
    *)

    if application "Google Chrome" is running then
        tell application "Google Chrome"

            set i to 0
            try
                repeat with t in (tabs of (first window))
                    set i to i + 1
                    if domain is in URL of t then
                        set localhostURLs to localhostURLs & URL of t
                    end if
                end repeat
            end try

        end tell
    end if


    (* 
        Check Apple Safari
        Loop to find localhost (or custom domain) 
    *)

    if application "Safari" is running then
        tell application "Safari"
            set i to 0
            try
                repeat with t in (tabs of (first window))
                    set i to i + 1
                    if domain is in URL of t then
                        set localhostURLs to localhostURLs & URL of t
                    end if
                end repeat
            end try
        end tell
    end if

    -- Clean up the URLs: replace all instances of "localhost" with IP
    set i to 1
    repeat with theURL in localhostURLs
        set item i of localhostURLs to replace_localhost(domain, theURL, theIP)
        set i to i + 1
    end repeat


    if (count of localhostURLs) is greater than 1 then

        choose from list localhostURLs with prompt "Which URL would you like to copy?" OK button name "Copy" default items item 1 of localhostURLs

        -- "cancel" button will return a value of false
        if the result is not false then
            set selectedURL to item 1 of the result as text
        end if

        if selectedURL is not "" then copy_to_clipboard(selectedURL, currentApp)

    else if (count of localhostURLs) is equal to 1 then

        set selectedURL to item 1 of localhostURLs as text
        copy_to_clipboard(selectedURL, currentApp)
        display dialog selectedURL & " has been copied to your clipboard"

    end if

end run