Dynamic URLs for XML-RPC Calls in AppleScript

2718.us — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:42:38 +0000

I started working on asLJ after I came across this. One of the problems that I quickly ran into was that the URLs in the

tell application "" to call xmlrpc ...

bits had to be hard-coded. That is, AppleScript didn’t like it when I tried to assemble the URL string on the fly. It took me a while to come up with a workaround, which should slightly impact the speed of the call, but doesn’t seem to make a noticeable difference. Here’s my generic handler for making LJ-based server XML-RPC calls:

– make a LiveJournal-type XML-RPC call to serverString for the method methodName with the parameters in parameterArray

on callLJraw(serverString, methodName, parameterArray)
run script "on run {paramArray}
tell application \"http://" & serverString & "/interface/xmlrpc\" to call xmlrpc ¬
{method name:\"LJ.XMLRPC.\" & \"" & methodName & "\", parameters:{paramArray}}
end run" with parameters {parameterArray}
return result
end callLJraw

asLJ: a Mac OS X 10.5+ LiveJournal Client

2718.us — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 08:24:18 +0000

asLJ is a new client for Macs running Leopard that easily handles multiple accounts on LiveJournal and other LJ-based sites and facilitates cross-posting across accounts. Release notes and download link are in aslj_client. The community for users is aslj_users.

(As it is very LJ-centric, most of the information about it will be over at LJ, in the two places linked above, but there is a page for it here, as well.)

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Dynamic URLs for XML-RPC Calls in AppleScript

asLJ: a Mac OS X 10.5+ LiveJournal Client