Well, to get HTML from a webpage and copy to the clipboard is fairly simple in AppleScript. set theHTML to do shell script “curl -L http://twitter.com | pbcopy” 3 solved How to make an AppleScript that copies HTML source code from webpages? [closed]
AppleScript is not the right tool for this job, so while the following solution works, it is sloooow. (For better performance, you’d need full hash-table functionality, which AppleScript doesn’t provide – AppleScript’s record class is severely handicapped by the inability to specify keys dynamically, at runtime, via variables – third-party solutions exist, though (e.g., http://www.latenightsw.com/freeware/list-record-tools/)). … Read more