Issues with a code: GetURLs

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June 1, 2023
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Dear Readers,

I am reaching out to you because I am currently facing issues with a downloaded code that I am trying to use in Adobe InDesign. I obtained the script from the following link: http://rorohiko.blogspot.com/2013/01/geturlsjsx.html.

The problem arises when I try to run the code (in the latest version of InDesign on the Mac). I receive an error message and I am unable to execute the code correctly. I have attached the relevant InDesign document containing the code for your reference.

Would someone be kind enough to assist me with this? I would greatly appreciate any help that can be provided.

Thank you very much in advance!

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RorohikoKris

Inspiring

Man, that code is _old_. I've since had at least two rewrites and other approaches which work better.

Unless you really, really want to use that old code, make sure to check out JSXGetURL (https://coppieters.nz/?p=720) and ExtendExtendScript https://coppieters.nz/?p=220

If you have good reason to want to use this very old version, let me know, but if I could choose, I'd prefer to put the old GetURL.jsx out to pasture...

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RorohikoKris

Inspiring

Also, you haven't answered Uwe's question: what is the URL you're trying to access by way of getURL? I suspect that might be where the issue lies.

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Manan Joshi

Community Expert

Did you make the changes suggested by Kris the script author regarding issues with CS5 in the ParseURL method? I quote the relevant section below. This could be mostly likely relevant in latest version as well

With regards to InDesign CS5: the downloadable code won't work as-is with CS5 due to some oddity with the String.replace function.

To work around the issue, you need to change the ParseURL function to read:

...
function ParseURL(url)
{
url=url.replace(/([a-z]*):\/\/([-\._a-z0-9A-Z]*)(:[0-9]*)?\/?(.*)/,"$1/$2/$3/$4");
url=url.split("/");

// ADD THE LINE BELOW FOR INDESIGN CS5
if (url[2] == "undefined") url[2] = "80";

var parsedURL = 
...

That fixes it up so it works with CS5 too...

For details see the following blogpost

http://rorohiko.blogspot.com/2008_07_01_archive.html

-Manan