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Applescript to split Safari tabs into new window

I'm trying to write a script that splits the current + all next tabs into a new window — which would be super useful for organization.

It is perfectly possible to get the URLs of the current and all next tabs, make a new window and load all those URLs in new tabs, and then close the tabs in the original window – but that seems very cumbersome and slow.

So, is there any way to move a set of Safari tabs to a new window without actually reloading the URLs?

Solution

  • Not sure if this is the best/right way, but got this working:

    tell application "Safari"
    set original_window to front window
    set tab_index to index of current tab of original_window
    set tab_limit to index of last tab of original_window

    make new document
    move tabs tab_index thru tab_limit of original_window to front window
    close first tab of front window
end tell