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an applescript to remind you of the sunset
I wanted to find a way to be reminded of when sunset was coming up, and couldn't find anything useful anywhere. So I wrote up my own AppleScript that displays a notification an hour ahead of sunset, and another when sunset happens. This script relies on LocationHelper and JSONHelper to function properly.
Without further ado, here it is:
-- get current location tell application "Location Helper" -- Fetch the Google Map API information for the current location set current_location to get location coordinates set latitude to item 1 of current_location set longitude to item 2 of current_location end tell -- parse result tell application "JSON Helper" set json to fetch JSON from "https://api.sunrise-sunset.org/json?lat=" & latitude & "&lng=" & longitude set json_parsed to json's items set json_data to json_parsed's first item set sunset to sunset of json_data end tell -- change hour to 24h (getting sunset in 12h format) set sunset_time to date sunset set sunset_time_24h to sunset_time + 12 * hours set sunset_time to (time string of sunset_time_24h) -- set reminder to hour before set hour_before to sunset_time_24h - 1 * hours set hour_before to (time string of hour_before) -- get current time in UTC set UTC to (current date) - (time to GMT) set current_time to (time string of UTC) -- now time set time_now to current date set time_now to text 1 thru 5 of time string of time_now -- strip to hour and minutes set sunset_time to (text 1 thru 5) of sunset_time set hour_before_sunset to (text 1 thru 5) of hour_before set current_time to (text 1 thru 5) of current_time if current_time = hour_before_sunset then display notification "Sunset is in an hour!" with title "Sunset coming up" sound name "Submarine" delay 1 else if current_time = sunset_time then display notification "Sunset is now! (" & time_now & ")" sound name "Submarine" delay 1 end if
I have saved this script as an app in a folder under ~/Documents/SunsetReminder
folder, and created the following plist file under ~/Library/LaunchAgents
:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>Label</key> <string>local.sunsetreminder.notify</string> <key>ProgramArguments</key> <array> <string>/bin/sh</string> <string>-c</string> <string>/usr/bin/osascript ~/Documents/SunsetReminder/SunsetReminder.app</string> </array> <key>StartInterval</key> <integer>60</integer> </dict> </plist>
Finally, you want to run launchctl load -w /LaunchAgents/local.sunsetreminder.notify.plist
from your terminal to load it. Good luck, and I hope it serves you well!
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