How to send a message using iChat and AppleScript

Question

I have a need to send a message to a number of people to let them know when an event is occurring. It is always the same list of people, and always the same event, so I would like to script it.

The problem that I have is that I know that I need to use the send command to send the message. And the format of that command is

tell application iChat to send "message" to _buddy_

The problem is how to get that buddy. I know how to get the list of all buddies, and to loop over them:

tell application "iChat"
    repeat with myBuddy in buddies
    end repeat
end tell

What I can't seem to find is how to just get the buddies that I care about, for example those with name "Pietje Piet" and "Joe Anonymous", and then just to send messages to these two contacts.

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 17 '12 at 08:51

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You'll have to aquire a list of the buddies you care about in a separate list somehow. Here's a suggestion:

set peopleICareAbout to {"Pietje Piet", "Joe Anonymous"}

tell application "iChat"
    repeat with myBuddy in buddies
        --get properties of myBuddy
        if full name of myBuddy is in peopleICareAbout then
            send "dfgdgdf gdg dfg dfg" to myBuddy
        end if
    end repeat
end tell

answered Feb 17 '12 at 08:51

tompaman

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That does exactly what I want! Although I had to change the message of course ;-) – Paul Wagland Feb 17 '12 at 08:55
This works great on OS X Yosemite, just need to change the application to "Messages". – Mike Kormendy Aug 14 '15 at 16:33

How to send a message using iChat and AppleScript

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