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Struggling to reference cliclick (stored in the same location as script) within applescript workflow

I've been writing a workflow for Alfred 2 which takes a selected jpeg on the users desktop - inserts it to google chrome then use cliclick to right click and reverse search the image via google search.

I cant seem to avoid having the user to put the cliclick in there home folder any attempt to reference the file elsewhere seems to return a systems events error in applescript.

Any help would be appreciated! (I'm extremely new to applescript and alfred apologises if this is a very simple problem)

--get location of selected folder
tell application "Finder"
    set sel to the selection as text
    set the clipboard to POSIX path of sel
end tell

activate application "Google Chrome"
--open selected jpeg in google chrome
tell application "System Events" to tell process "Google Chrome"
    delay 1
    keystroke "t" using command down
    keystroke "v" using command down
    key code 36
    delay 1
    -- calculate the top left corner of the image
    set myBounds to bounds of window 1 of application "Google Chrome"
    set x to item 1 of myBounds
    set y to item 2 of myBounds
    --locate cliclick in users home
    set uHome to get path to home folder
    set locHome to POSIX path of uHome
    --run the right click -> search by image mouse event
    do shell script "" & locHome & "/cliclick m:" & x & "," & y & "w:100 kd:ctrl c:+2,+74 ku:ctrl w:1000 c:+66,+90 w:700"
end tell

--close "file://" tab
tell application "Google Chrome"
    set windowList to every tab of every window whose URL starts with "file://"
    repeat with tabList in windowList
        set tabList to tabList as any
        repeat with tabItr in tabList
            set tabItr to tabItr as any
            delete tabItr
        end repeat
    end repeat
end tell

I tried using 

set UnixPath to POSIX path of ((path to me as text) & "::" & "cliclick")

in replacement of

set uHome to get path to home folder
set locHome to POSIXpath of uHome

but replacing it into the shell script with 

do shell script "" & UnixHome & " m:" & x & "," & y & "w:100 kd:ctrl c:+2,+74 ku:ctrl w:1000 c:+66,+90 w:700"

stops the workflow with the System Event error

The Script as it stands (cl.ly link)

Solution

  • You could put cliclick in the resource folder of your app and call it like this:

    set pathtocc to quoted form of (POSIX path of (path to resource "cliclick"))
do shell script pathtocc & " -h"

    Or let curl do the job:

    set imagefile to POSIX path of ¬
    (choose file of type "public.image" default location path to desktop)

do shell script "
open -a 'Google Chrome' $(curl -F 'encoded_image=@" & imagefile & ¬
    "' https://www.google.com/searchbyimage/upload | grep 'tbs=sbi' | sed 's/^.*http/http/;s/\".*$//')"

    curl -F uploads the file to reverse search. The output is a redirect which includes the URL to the google result page.