Plug-In: Just For Today

This plug-in uses the fetch() function of the URL class (LINK) to retrieve the contents of the Just For Today website (https://www.jftna.org/jft/) and then sets the note of the inbox task “JFT” to the cleaned content.

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Just For Today
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/*{
	"type": "action",
	"targets": ["omnifocus"],
	"author": "Otto Automator",
	"identifier": "com.omni-automation.of.just-for-today",
	"version": "1.2",
	"description": "Retrieves the contents of the Just For Today website (http://www.jftna.org/jft/) and sets the note of the inbox task “JFT” to the cleaned content.",
	"label": "Just For Today",
	"shortLabel": "Just For Today",
	"paletteLabel": "JFT",
	"image": "doc.append"
}*/
(() => {
	const action = new PlugIn.Action(function(selection, sender){
		// Just For Today website
		url = URL.fromString("http://www.jftna.org/jft/")
		// retrieve contents of webpage
		url.fetch(function(data){
			// remove HTML tags from text content
			var strNoTags = data.toString().replace(/(<([^>]+)>)/gi, "")
			// trim whitespace from paragraphs
			var paragraphs = strNoTags.split("\n")
			paragraphs = paragraphs.map(item => {return item.trim()})
			// change triple-spaces to double-spaces
			var str = paragraphs.join("\n")
			while(str.indexOf("\n\n\n") >= 0) {
				str = str.replace(/\n\n\n/g, "\n\n")      
			}
			// replace fixed-space tag with space
			str = str.replace(/&nbsp;/gi, " ")
			// locate task, create task if needed
			var task = inbox.byName("JFT") || new Task("JFT")
			// set the note to the retrieved text
			task.note = str
			// show the task
			URL.fromString("omnifocus://task/" + task.id.primaryKey).open()
		}, function(err){
			new Alert(err.name, err.message).show()
		})
	});

	action.validate = function(selection, sender){return true};
	
	return action;
})();